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UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of association and assembly Gina Romero has contacted Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev regarding the case of Azerbaijani human rights activist Anar Mammadli.

Ethnic Ossetian Alan Gatsoev, who spent several months in the no-man's land between Georgia and Russia, received permission to enter South Ossetia. There, authorities provided him with housing and found him a job.

The Moscow District Court granted the Prosecutor General's Office's request to forfeit the homes and foreign cars of Magomed and Ilyas Kushtov, employees of the Ingush Federal Tax Service, suspected of abuse of power resulting in multimillion-dollar damages.

More than 230 members of Azerbaijani families who fled during the Karabakh conflict returned to Lachin, Hadrut, and two other settlements today.

Regular power outages and low voltage in the electrical grid are creating problems for residents of the Dagestani village of Verkhneye Kazanishche, and appeals to the authorities have been unsuccessful.

The Supreme Court of South Ossetia has reviewed the cassation appeals filed by the parties in the Inal Dzhabiev murder case. The decision will be announced on December 22. The parties insist that their appeals be upheld.

In the Slavyansky district of the Krasnodar region, two people were injured and at least five houses were damaged when a drone fell.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ukrainian border guard Denis Storozhuk to 22 years in prison, finding him guilty of plotting a terrorist attack. His accomplice, Valentina Zayarnaya, was sentenced to 12 years.

The Rostov-on-Don Military Court has extended the pretrial detention of Kazbek Emkuzhev and five other Nalchik residents accused of forming a terrorist organization by three months. Hearings in the case have been intermittent and constantly postponed.

Lawyers for those convicted in the murder of Khadzhimurad Kamalov, editor-in-chief of the Dagestani newspaper "Chernovik," are appealing the cassation ruling of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which upheld their sentence.

Residents of the village of Kholmskaya in the Abinsky District recorded a video message to Putin asking him to cancel the land allocation for the construction of a waste landfill.

Ramzan Kadyrov's statements about his intention to participate in the 2026 Chechen presidential elections are primarily addressed to those elites who expect his resignation, and he has no need to negotiate with the Kremlin.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don will hear the case of a 50-year-old Stavropol resident accused of publicly acquitting herself of a crime based on a comment she made on a messenger app.

Former First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Abbas Abbasov has been placed on the wanted list in connection with the criminal case against Ramiz Mehdiyev and other individuals accused of attempting to seize state power.

A Nalchik court partially upheld the claims of three victims in a case involving hepatitis and HIV infection at a private sanatorium. A convicted nurse is ordered to pay them 9 million rubles in compensation.

A criminal case involving the embezzlement of funds from the Russian Pension Fund, in which Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov is one of the defendants, has been filed with the Cherkessk City Court.

Austrian resident Indira Taisumova's appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov to help her return her daughters attracted the attention of Chechen authorities and Mansur Soltayev personally, but they only contacted the woman informally and privately.

The Kabardino-Balkarian prosecutor's office explained its refusal to take action, citing security forces' failure to pressure the signatories of the petition in defense of Larisa Tuptsokova. Human rights activists dismissed this response as a formality.

The environmental consequences of the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait have not been eliminated even a year after the tanker disaster, scientists and authorities in Kuban acknowledged.

Participants in a video message to Putin asked for help restoring trolleybus service in Taganrog. Operating the remaining trolleybuses is unsafe, and purchasing new ones requires significant financial investment, the mayor stated earlier.