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2.6% of refugees from Azerbaijan, remaining in Armenia, are still without Armenian citizenship after the termination of the programme in support of forced migrants, said Anahit Airapetyan, the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Armenia.

The police and private companies are indiscriminately evacuating cars, including those marked as "disabled person", said Pavel Zhestovskiy, the chairman of the society of invalids of the Tsentralny District of Sochi. This practice has become widespread, social activists assert.

The members of the government of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) were not informed about the sale of the building of the Philharmonic Society to a private person, which followed after the transfer of the building to the balance of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Torgset".

In 2016, despite the disruption of the construction schedule of the Drama Theatre in Tskhinvali, the South-Ossetian authorities have coped with their obligations before Russia in implementing the investment programme. This was stated by Alexander Khloponin, a Russian Vice-Premier.

The official from the Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has asked the court to find Gevorg Safaryan, a member of the "Constituent Parliament", guilty of using violence against a policeman.

The Zamoskvoretskiy District Court of Moscow has upheld the putting by the Russia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of the International "Memorial" into the register of organizations-"foreign agents". The court ruling will be appealed against, said Elena Zhemkova, the executive director of the organization.

Seeing that there are no promised meetings in the Federation Council and Presidential Administration in Moscow, farmers from the Krasnodar Territory went to their congress held in Stavropol. There, it was decided to hold the All-Russian Farmers' and a repeated "tractor march".

During the first 11 months of 2016, the Mayoralty of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, received 280 materials on illegally erected buildings. On 120 lawsuits on demolition of illegally built structures, courts ruled in favour of the Mayoralty.

The aim of the law adopted in the Stavropol Territory, which has increased up to 2500 hectares the minimum land area allocated to tenants, is to protect land of the territory from outside influence, said Vladimir Vladimirov, the Governor. His statement in defence of the scandalous law was made three days after it was appealed against by the Prosecutor's Office.

A native of Chechnya has been arrested in the province of Agri in Eastern Turkey and accused of having links with the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia, said the spokesman of the Counterterrorist Department of the Security Office of the province.

The gas explosion in Grozny, which caused harm to a woman and five children, was caused by rendering services that failed to meet safety requirements, the investigators assert.

The President of Abkhazia Raul Khajimba has offered the oppositionists, who demanded his resignation, as a compromise, high government posts, including the posts of the Public Prosecutor General and Vice-Premier. He also agreed to limit his own powers.

At the trial of an attempt to create a caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) Valery Dimitrov was questioned, who was a witness of detention of two defendants in January 2014. He said that in 2011 he was convicted and was serving his conditional sentence. The defence believes that this fact puts the witness into dependence from power agents.

Workers of the "Nairit" Chemical Factory demand to resume the production of caoutchouc (rubber resin) in the country. The Armenian Ministry of Energy has stated that it had received no bids (applications) for participating in the tender for factory restart.

An efficient investigation into the killings of Dagestani journalists Khadjimurad Kamalov and Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev is hampered by investigators' sluggishness during the first days after the crimes; and because of that, it is now much more difficult to establish many facts, colleagues of the perished journalists state on December 15.

The popularity of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has brought him up to the federal level, but in 2016 his rating was based mainly on his hard-edged statements and positioning himself as a strong leader, said Alexei Grazhdankin and Stepan Goncharov, sociologists of the "Levada Centre".

Murders and disappearances of journalists, including in Northern Caucasus, remain uninvestigated for years. Casualties' colleagues and relatives must seek punishment of the perpetrators, mass media professionals have stated on the Commemoration Day of Perished Journalists.

Raul Khajimba, the President of Abkhazia, has admitted several oppositionists to himself in order to discuss the demands of the people's assembly to him to resign. After the talks, he announced that he would not resign.

On the day of the murder of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, the car of Shagid Gubashev was far from the crime scene, said his advocate, referring to the data of the "Potok" (Flow) system. However, the prosecutor has objected, saying that in autumn of 2014 Gubashev repeatedly appeared in the territory of the settlement, where Nemtsov was.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in February, the Company "Kurort Plus" became the purchaser of 96.9% of the Non-Public Joint-Stock Company (NPJSC) "Krasnaya Polyana". The amount of the transaction concluded by the "Sberbank" made 35 billion roubles. In December 2015 the Supervisory Board of the "Vnesheconombank" agreed on the sale of shares of the "Krasnaya Polyana" to the Company "Kurort Plus".