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Inglab Akhadov, the former Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan, will appear in court as a defendant, accused of treason, together with Natiq Kerimov, an elder of the village of Nardaran. Their cases are combined and sent to the court.

Today, the remains of 109 victims killed during the First Chechen War, including women and children, have been taken from Rostov-on-Don to Grozny. This was reported by human rights defender Aset Malsagova. According to a source from the Muftiate, the remains were buried.

The Chechen leader has refuted the information stating that the wounded young people detained in a special operation in Grozny were killed after their hospitalization.

Relatives of the young people killed in a special operation in Grozny have been released after the gathering, involving relatives of the killed policemen and militants, as well as representatives of their clans, elders, and theologians. The police ordered the relatives of the suspects killed in the course of the special operation not to leave the places of their residence.

In the Dzerzhinsk District of Volgograd, residents of three streets of the neighbourhood of Gumrak, who during eight months experience problems with water supply, associate them with the construction of water supply systems and a highway to the international airport of the regional centre.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has upheld the decision of the first-instance court, which had sentenced Stanislav Klykh, a citizen of Ukraine, to a month of corrective labour for insulting the public prosecutor.

In Azerbaijan, the expiring year of 2016 was characterized by deepening of economic and social crisis and lack of progress in human rights sphere. The executive power has been increased due to adoption of the amendments to the Constitution, and the situation in the country has been affected by the escalation in the Karabakh conflict zone. This was noted by NGO activists, journalists, and oppositionists, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Sochi, more than 100 people kept at a temporary detention facility for illegal migrants have been brought to the Kuban village of Gulkevichi. According to a staff member of the Sochi temporary detention facility for migrants, the authorities treated the facility as not suitable for the resort area, and it was finally closed.

The day of December 31 has marked the 20th anniversary of the withdrawal of the last federal forces from Chechnya on December 31, 1996. By the end of the First Chechen War, the "Caucasian Knot" prepared a compilation of reference materials, combined in a thematic folder.

The decision of the Turkish Federation of Caucasian Associations (KAFFED – from the Turkish Kafkas Dernekleri Federasyonu) to suspend its membership in the International Circassian Association (ICA) was a result of a systemic crisis within the ICA, the leadership of which supports the attempts of Russian authorities to suppress the protest moods of the Circassian community, said the activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Small Jewish communities in Southern of Russia are dying out due to the outflow of young people, while larger communities try to cope with it through initiatives for children and teens. Members of the Jewish communities, who are now celebrating the Hanukkah, told the "Caucasian Knot" about it.

After the refusal of relatives of the policemen, killed in Grozny, to forgive relatives of suspected militants, elders offered to attract the head of Chechnya to the settlement of the situation, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has reported.

The seven supporters of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia detained in Dagestan, were members of a "sleeping unit" and had not been on the wanted list, said a law enforcement source.

On December 31, the South-Ossetian-Georgian border will be closed for 24 hours in the context of the pre-holiday enhanced security measures, said the KGB of South Ossetia.

At the rally at the mosque "Heart of Chechnya" in Grozny, Adam Shakhidov, an adviser to the head of the republic, has called to forgive relatives of the militants, killed during a special operation in Grozny. The opinions of the participants of the rally have diverged.

Today, those, whose relatives perished in the blasted trolley bus on December 30, 2013, held a rally at the monument to victims of the terror act in Volgograd. During the action, an Orthodox priest held a prayer service. On December 29, a memorial rally was also held at the railway station, where a terror act was also committed three years ago.

A man, who opened fire on law enforcers, was shot dead in Kaspiysk, said a law enforcement source.

The former policeman, questioned prior to debates and making a decision on the claim of Magomed Magomedov against the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, whose report was one of the grounds for putting the journalist on the so-called "prophylactic registry", could not tell the court about any conducted operative activities.

Last night, in the area of New Moscow, an attack on policemen was committed; two law enforcers were wounded; one of them later died. Eight suspected attackers were detained by "hot pursuit". At least five of them are natives of Northern Caucasus, said a law enforcement source.

The decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic, which upheld the verdict to Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, should be repealed in view of the fabrication of the case, the international organization "Reporters without Borders" (RWB) has stated.