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The Tbilisi City Court has imprisoned a minor accused of a double murder of teenagers; the second suspect has been arrested in absentia. Today, the police have detained three more people.

The incident occurred late in the evening on December 3. After being beaten, Giorgi Kvanchiani, an activist of the "Free Zone" NGO, was taken to a hospital by an ambulance.

According to preliminary data, Alexander Pogrebov’s parachute failed to open during his jump in the mountains of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), an investigator has stated today.

Colonel-Lieutenant Gadji Mamedov from the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, was found dead in a medical unit of the Penitentiary Service. According to preliminary data, he committed suicide.

In Grozny, shops have limited sale of alcoholic beverages. Meanwhile, employees of major supermarkets found it difficult to answer whether a ban was introduced only for the Muslim month of Rabi-al-Awal when the birth of the Prophet Muhammad was celebrated or on continuing basis.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the only rehabilitation centre in the republic named after Baroness Caroline Cox held a photo exhibition and an exhibition of art and applied works dedicated to the 18th anniversary of the rehabilitation centre's activities. The patients of the rehabilitation centre interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" highly appreciated the quality of the services provided and the attitude of the personnel, but they complained about the old building of the centre.

Vano Nadiradze, deported to Georgia on November 17, was detained while trying to illegally enter Ukraine, the Ukrainian Frontier Service has stated today.

Nino Lomdjariya, the new Georgian Ombudsperson, will have to work in the conditions of political tension; she needs to remain neutral and not get under the influence of the ruling party, Georgian rights defenders believe.

Today, the "Gorki Gorod" Resort in Krasnaya Polyana has opened its alpine ski routes; and over a thousand ski passes have been sold to skiers.

After publication of the "Caucasian Knot", investigators have launched a check of the conflict of Sochi amateur fishermen with guards of elite yachts.

On December 1, the Stepanakert Press Club presented a brochure and granted certificates to participants of the first phase of the project of studying the basics of civil journalism and public activity for non-working women.

For the first time ever, Nagorno-Karabakh hosted joint exercises of Karabakh and Armenian militaries. They mastered how to react jointly to enemy's penetration into Nagorno-Karabakh.

The second boy wounded in a mass teenagers' brawl in Tbilisi has died. This was reported by Avtandil Imedadze, the head of the republic's hospital, the "InterPressNews" reports.

Rescuers have found the body of a tourist from the Moscow Region in the mountains. They handed it over to the policemen in Nalchik.

The agreement with the European Union (EU) embodies the Armenia's multi-vector foreign policy, and in no conflict with its membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), participants of the parliamentary hearings have stated.

Within the case of Ruslan Rakhaev, a former deputy head of the OVD (Interior Division) of Cherkessk, accused of beating a detainee to death, an ambulance doctor has been questioned. She told that when she tried to save Dakhir Djankezov, she heard his ribs crunching, while, according to policemen, the man suddenly fell down from his chair and fainted.

The registration centres that control the firearm circulation give conflicting data about the submachine guns, which, according to investigators, were owned by members of the "Islamic State" (IS, banned in Russia) unit created in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). This was stated by defendants' advocates. The court agreed to deliver the submachine guns into the courtroom and disassemble them on the spot.

The call of North-Ossetian officials to attract young Ingushes living in the republic to the "Mashuk" Forum has caused some resonance. Deputies from North Ossetia and Ingushetia came into dispute about the situation of Ingushes in the Ossetian society.

On November 22, armed people took Zelimkhan Dikaev away from his home; he has not returned yet, his relatives told the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The Makhachkala court has transferred Akim Kuliev, who has complained about torture after his arrest under the case of setting the district administration on fire, under house arrest. Two other figurants in the case remain at the SIZO (pre-trial prison).