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Residents of Tbilisi and Kutaisi took part in the traditional "Alilo" Christmas March; in the capital of Georgia, they were congratulated on the Christmas by President Salome Zurabishvili.

Christmas services were held in the Orthodox churches of Baku, Ganja and Khachmaz. Residents of Baku said that in their families the celebration of Christmas is a tribute to traditions.

The Baku police have detained picketers in defence of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov, who had gone on a hunger strike in jail. However, the authorities report that he has himself stopped his protest.

During the last 24 hours, the ceasefire regime in the conflict zone was violated for 28 times; the positions of the Azerbaijani militaries deployed in the villages of the Gazakh and Tovuz Districts came under fire, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The feast of the Epiphany, which unites Christmas and Baptism, was celebrated by the parishioners of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The festive divine services were held in 89 temples of the Artsakh Diocese.

This night, the Christmas holiday services were held in Chechnya under heightened security measures. In Grozny, the capital of the republic, there were also rescuers on duty near the Christian Orthodox churches.

Gagarin Omarov, a deputy head of the Kizilyurt District administration and a former deputy of the Prosecutor of Khasavyurt, was taken to hospital, where he fell into a coma and died. His son, a resident of Khasavyurt, has complained in social networks about doctors' slowness and failure to render timely help to his father.

The residents of Grozny, who have debts on paying utility bills, received anonymous notifications about the upcoming seizure of their housing facilities for debt. However, lawyers have stated that such papers have no legal force and are intended to intimidate the debtors.

During the week of December 31, 2018, to January 6, 2019, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus two persons suffered: one person was killed and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

During the period from December 30, 2018, to January 5, 2019, Azerbaijani soldiers fired 1000 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the latter has stated.

On January 3, the inscription on the marble slab of the monument to the soldiers of the Caucasian Islamic Army erected in the Dagestan village of Agachaul was changed without authors' consent, members of seven Kumyk organizations have stated. They demanded to restore the original text.

A resident of Batumi hospitalized on January 4 after roof collapse because of a strong wind has died in hospital. Another victim was operated on; his life is out of danger.

After examination at the Moscow Medical Centre, 30 children brought from the Middle East were handed over to their relatives, Anna Kuznetsova, the Russian Children's Ombudsperson, has informed today.

The three-year-old child, who received a gunshot wound on the New Year's Eve, has died today in a Derbent hospital.

An activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), a member of the board of the "Musavat" Party and the head of the Centre for the Monitoring Political Prisoners have joined the hunger strike of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov, demanding to release him from custody.

During the last 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the truce on the troops contact line for at least 23 times, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

Part of the roof of a multi-storey building collapsed and fell to the ground during a strong wind in Batumi; two passers-by were injured and taken to hospital.

A Grozny cinema has stopped selling tickets to the film about the BTS Korean pop group against the background of a similar decision taken in Makhachkala.

The return of the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov to Russia threatens him with torture and unfair persecution, says the statement of the "Amnesty International" (AI), an international human rights organization.

The US PEN International (PEN America) has linked the new criminal case against the blogger Mekhman Guseinov with the suppression of the dissent in Azerbaijan. Guseinov, who is on hunger strike at the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) in protest against the new indictment, needs an urgent surgery, Shakhla Gumbatova, his advocate, has stated today.