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During searches and detentions of over 100 natives of the republics of Northern Caucasus at one of Moscow hostels, law enforcers illegally entered one's housing, committed illegal deprivation of freedom, failed to render medical aid and damaged one's property, Tatiana Okushko, a lawyer, believes. Law enforcers were obliged to present court's orders or investigator's warrant for a search, said Maxim Pashkov.

The court in Yerevan has released Manvel Grigoryan, an Armenian MP and the head of the "Erkrapa" Union of Volunteer, on bail of 52,000 US dollars.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has refused to change the freedom restraint of Pavel Grib, a Ukrainian citizen, for house arrest, despite his complaints about health problems.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized violations of the rights of two Georgian citizens, who failed to receive the necessary medical care in jails. The victims have been awarded compensation in the total amount of 19,500 euros.

Ramzan Kadyrov has commented on the fatal road accident in Grozny with the participation of his relative, making it clear that the latter will not be punished.

The Russian military serviceman suspected of killing a woman in the city of Gyumri must be kept at the local SIZO (pre-trial prison); his stay at the military base contradicts the norms of the Armenia-Russia agreement, the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

Makhachkala residents are outraged by electricity supply outages and started an endless protest action today. They would not let cars through the dwelling settlement of Shamkhal.

Russia cannot agree with the conclusions of the OSCE report on human rights violations in Chechnya and finds it deliberately politicized, stated Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov and Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich.

The chief of the Armenian Deputy Prime Minister's office promised to consider the project to revive the "Nairit" plant, proposed by a foreign investor. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan did not come out to protesters.

Today, the Baku Economic and Administrative Court has partially granted the claim filed by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Taxes against journalist Khadija Ismayilova. The defendant treated the claim against her as an attempt to limit her cooperation with the Western media.

The Gurdjaani District Court has refused to release Gocha Maisuradze and Mamuka Usinashvili, suspected of attacking an oppositionist near the village of Velistsikhe, on bail.

On December 18, the Ingush businessman, Mikhail Gutseriev, announced his intention to file a lawsuit for protection of his business reputation after being accused by Moscow Circus director Edgard Zapashny of constructing an arena for the Canadian "Cirque du Soleil".

The decision to liquidate the Armenian Ministry of the Diaspora and reorganize the Ministry of Culture is erroneous and will result in staff reductions and move the problems of culture and interaction with the Diaspora to the background, employees of the Ministries have stated today at the protest action.

Positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled at in the Karabakh conflict zone, including in the border village of Geyali, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

On December 19, dozens North-Caucasian natives were detained by law enforcers forces in a Moscow hostel; they were all released after photographing and fingerprinting, the hostel tenants told the "Caucasian Knot". According to their story, law enforcers behaved rudely and applied physical force against some tenants.

The information about violent disappearances, torture, extrajudicial executions, pressure on human rights defenders and persecutions of gays in Chechnya has been treated as indisputable facts in the report. The publication thereof will not affect the situation in the republic, but it will make it easier for refugees from Chechnya to get protection abroad, activists of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" told the "Caucasian Knot".

A court in Baku has sentenced Telman Shiraliev, a religious activist, to five months and 18 days in prison. Rights defenders view the new case against Shiraliev as politically motivated, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

After Vladimir Putin's statement that the murder case of Gasanguseinov brothers will be under special control, their father decided to suspend his protest actions.

Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who has been under arrest in Chechnya since this January, has been included into the annual rating of "100 outstanding people" compiled by the "Russian Reporter".

During the today's press conference in Moscow, while answering a question from a Dagestani journalist, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to "give necessary attention" to the case on the killing of the Gasanguseinov brothers in Dagestan.