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Until the end of 2020, the World Bank will allocate more than 15 million US dollars for improvement of the living conditions of 371,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees in Azerbaijan.

According to lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", remains of victims of the Chechen war of 1994-1996 were given out to relatives after the expiry of criminal liability for persons involved in their deaths and proved the ineffectiveness of the investigation.

Mark Yavorsky, sentenced in Sochi for the murder of two men, has claimed that the real killers are at large, while he is just a witness of the conflict which occurred in a building of the abandoned sanatorium "Moscow". The defence filed an appeal, and the case transferred to the Krasnodar Regional Court.

The health condition of wrestler Rasul Mirzaev, who was attacked in Moscow at night of January 31, has deteriorated. This was reported by Aniuar Chechenov, a friend of the athlete.

The 17-year-old compatriot from Syria, who arrived in Adygea in late 2016, was accommodated into a repatriates' family and registered at a school, where he will learn the Russian language.

Among the forty people detained in the city of Izmir there are natives of Dagestan; they are suspected of involvement in the preparation of the attack on the nightclub in Istanbul, Turkish mass media have reported today.

The "Kakheti Regional Development Foundation", which is located in the Culture House, set on fire in the village of Duisi, had received threats in the Chechen and Georgian languages. Authors thereof expressed dissatisfaction with the education of women and children, said Iza Bekauri, the head of the Foundation.

The parliamentary elections were, of course, the most important event in 2016 in Georgia, Gela Vasadze, a political analyst and the chairman of the NGO "Free Zone", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. However, in his opinion, the election process itself has not changed in recent years.

After a retrial of Levan Kochlashvili, a resident of Tbilisi, accused of murdering a transgender person in 2014, the Supreme Court (SC) of Georgia sentenced him to 10 years of imprisonment, General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia reported on January 3.

In her special New Year's video message, Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the United Nations, has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release from prison Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Azerbaijani motion "ReAl".

Relatives of the young people killed on December 17-18 in Grozny and involved in attacks on policemen are dismissed from their jobs, and some of them are not paid pension and benefits. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by the people themselves.

The mass grave of 109 victims of the hostilities, buried on December 31 at the cemetery near Grozny, has become a place of pilgrimage for relatives of the people who disappeared during the First Chechen War. The people still cannot obtain information about their relatives.

On January 3, Chechnya held the memorial day in connection with the 153rd anniversary of the deportation of Saint Kunta-Khadji Kishiev, revered in the Chechen Republic. In Chechnya, the mosques committed religious rituals of dhikr and mawlid. The events of the memorial day were attended by tens of thousands of people.

Residents of Sochi, being unhappy with delayed replacement of pavement, have succeeded in seeking opening of a passage to Seaside Embankment till final completion of the repair works. Owners of cafes, restaurants, and shops have reported losses caused by the construction works on the embankment during the holidays.

At least 221 persons, who took their service in security and defence structures of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, were killed in the warfare; and at least 97 persons perished in non-combat conditions during the past year, the Caspian Defence Studies Institute (CDSI) has reported, adding 20 perished volunteers.

Iza Bekauri, the head of the Kakheti Regional Development Fund, has associated the arson of the Culture House in the village of Duisi with the activities of the Fund, which was earlier criticized by local supporters of Islam.

The request to extradite Zurab Maisuradze, the ex-head of the Georgian Anti-Terrorist Centre, who was detained on Russia's demand, was politically motivated, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Lithuania has regarded, and refused to extradite him.

Despite the demands of international mediators, Armenia is protracting the procedure of giving out the body of Chingiz Gurbanov, an Azerbaijani military, the spokesman of the State Commission on Matters of Prisoners of War, Missing and Captured Citizens of Azerbaijan has stated today.

The President instructed the Russian Government and the authorities of the Krasnodar Territory to attract ecologists and submit proposals on minimizing the damage to the environment while expanding recreation areas in the vicinity of Krasnaya Polyana.

The Azerbaijani Centre for Monitoring Political Prisoners has established the Award "Rights Defender of the Year". Leyla Yunus, the Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), has become its first Laureate by the outcomes of 2016.