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Members of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee want to meet Alexander Matovnikov, the President Putin's plenipotentiary envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), who has for the first time acknowledged the preparation for the assault of the school captured by terrorists in Beslan in 2004, Aneta Gadieva, a deputy chair of the "Beslan Mothers", has stated.

In Prague, Czech law enforcers have detained Narek Sargsyan, a nephew of Serzh Sargsyan, the third president of Armenia, who was wanted within the case of possessing drugs and weapons.

Oleg Umarov, the head of the "Dobro Cherkesov" (Circassians' Wealth) Charitable Foundation, was detained by law enforcers in Kabardino-Balkaria. His relatives have stated that Oleg is sick with diabetes, and complained about his health problems after detention.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights fails to impose obligations on Azerbaijani authorities to release Seimur Khazi; it only provides for compensation in the amount of 14,500 euros, the journalist's advocate has stated. The ECtHR has passed its decision, when Khazi has less than 9 months till the end of his prison term, said his wife.

A court in Baku refused to transfer Abulfaz Sadygbeili, the head of the youth organization of the "Musavat" Party, to house arrest. His defence believes that the investigation is biased; and the court ignores the norms of the law.

The report of the "Legal Initiative", dealing with the so-called "honour killings" in Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya, is groundless, the adviser to the head of Ingushetia has stated. There are no so-called "honour killings" in Chechnya, since there are no immoral women, the press secretary of the head of the republic has declared.

The list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan presented by human rights defenders by the International Human Rights Day, marked on December 10, includes 150 persons.

Today, the Azerbaijani side of the Karabakh conflict has claimed shelling of its positions from the territories that Azerbaijani considers as its occupied ones. However, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the country did not report any violations of the truce on its border with Armenia.

Doctors treat the health condition of Eldaniz Sadygov, a Mulla and an ethnic Azerbaijani, who was beaten up on December 5 in the village of Dashtapa, Marneuli District, as stable. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is investigating the incident under the article on the use of violence.

The statement of the head of the region about his intention not to repay the credit to the bank is unprecedented and resembles a feudal state, in which not the obligations, but the status, decided everything, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Policemen placed Mindiya Gogochuri, a son-in-law of the President of Georgia, suspected of possessing weapons and hiding a crime, into a detention centre.

During the 6th Mass Media Forum of Northern Caucasus in Grozny, Vladimir Vasiliev, the head of Dgestan, announced his plans to discuss the Dagestani borders with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

After the announcement of the verdict of the Russian Constitutional Court (CC), which declared the referendum on the border issue with Chechnya senseless, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Ingushetia has denied the initiators of the referendum.

The Russian government has declared the inadmissibility of the complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of the murder of Gasanguseinov brothers in Dagestan, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has stated.

The inauguration of Salome Zurabishvili will be held on December 16 in the city of Telavi, in King Irakli-II's Palace. The idea to hold the ceremony in the region, in which Zurabishvili did not get the majority of votes, was not universally supported.

Mirtagi Asadov, the head of the Supreme Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Georgia, has linked his arrest in Azerbaijan with his public activeness in Georgia. The protest vote of ethnic Azerbaijanis at the presidential election in Georgia could be the direct reason for Asadov 's arrest, activists believe.

The assault of the school seized by terrorists in Beslan, which was opposed by local residents, had been prepared initially, Alexander Matovnikov, the presidential envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District, has acknowledged today.

Today, the Supreme Court of Ingushetia has annulled the fine imposed on Akhmet-Bashir Aushev, the deputy chairman of the Council of Republic's Teips (Clans), who took part in a protest rally against the agreement on the border with Chechnya.

The decision of the Russian Constitutional Court, which has legitimized today the change of the Ingush-Chechen border, was made "for the sake of bureaucrats," the opponents of the agreement have stated, threatening the authorities with new protests and appeals to international structures.

Today, the "Legal Initiative" has published its report "Killed by Gossip. Honour Killings of Women in Northern Caucasus". It contains real stories of women who fell victim to honour killings in Northern Caucasus in 2008-2017.