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On December 19, the Krasnodar Territorial Court cancelled the judgement of the Timashevsk District Court, which found the information about joint travels posted on the website of the BlaBlaCar service to be prohibited.

This evening, Baku policemen have detained Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the "Khural" newspaper. On his Facebook page, the journalist was broadcasting the blocking of the Binagadi Highway, his wife, Malakhat Gisuri, also a journalist, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The project of the "Kakheti Regional Development Foundation" (KRDF) has helped women from the Pankisi Gorge to master crafts, organize businesses and learn to protect their rights.

Shooting from the territory of Georgia has been fixed at the border; such cases lead to conflict escalation, the spokesman of South Ossetia has stated at the meeting in Ergneti.

Darya Polyudova was detained today at her home in the village of Poltavskaya on charges of petty hooliganism. Another activist, Victor Chirikov, was detained near his house in Krasnodar on a similar charge.

130 residents of the Dagestani settlement of Vremenny have appealed to the Russian Government, asking to order to pay compensations for their houses destroyed during the special operation, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has stated today.

In Iraq, a group of 41 Russian citizens has been discovered in a refugee camp. This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by an official from the Chechen leader and government administration.

Ilyas Sharipov, killed at night during a special operation in the Gumbet District, was a brother of Maryam Sharipova, who blew herself up in the Moscow metro in 2010, reported a source from the law enforcement bodies.

Public gratitude expressed by Vladimir Putin for the CIA's help in prevention of terror acts, which were allegedly plotted also by natives of Dagestan and Ingushetia, speaks about strengthening of cooperation between Russia and the United States. This opinion has been voiced by Mikhail Roschin. Alexander Perendjiev suggests there is hardly any close cooperation between the secret services.

Tonight, the law enforcement bodies have reported about a special operation in Dagestan, as a result of which two members of the armed underground were killed. The special operation takes place in the forest near the village of Igali in the Gumbet District.

The initiative of the Armenian Ministry of Transport to ban the import of right-hand-drive cars has provoked a protest of car owners. A race with a demand to withdraw the initiative has been scheduled for December 22.

Akop Pogosyan, who received a burn of 90% of his body surface during the explosion of balloon gas in the Lazarevskoe District of Sochi, came to consciousness. Experts did not check the gas equipment in his house for 15 years; and officials ignore residents' requests to gasify the dwelling settlement, Akop's relatives have stated.

The boy and the girl, who were brought last weekend from the Middle East to Grozny, will undergo rehabilitation at the Children's Rehabilitation Centre.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia has sent a request to Ukraine for the extradition of Magomed Dukuzov, accused of killing Paul Khlebnikov, the editor-in-chief of the Russian Forbes.

A Deputy's ID certificate, found at the venue of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Dagestan village of Gubden, belonged to one of the casualties, Magomed-Khabib Kasimov, who earlier was a Deputy of the People's Assembly of the Karabudakhkent District, the administration has confirmed.

Five persons who have been killed today by law enforcers in the Cossack village of Zelenchukskaya were plotting to commit terror acts in crowded places, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reported.

Today, two members of the initiative group "For Development of Science" have started a protest against the limitation of the army service postponement for students.

Today, the former President of Georgia has come for questioning to the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine. He has announced he agrees to testify only to investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine (known as SBU).

Five suspected militants were killed in the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) carried out in the Zelenchuksky District of Karachay-Cherkessia, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

In Krasnodar, five solo pickets were held on the day of commemoration of the homophobia victims, on December 17. In their hands, picketers were holding posters with the demand to investigate crimes against gays in Chechnya.