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Colonies and SIZOs (pre-trial prisons) see cases of physical violence against political prisoners and those who try to tell the media about what is happening – these are the conclusions of the report on the situation in prisons, prepared by rights defenders and former prisoners.

The investigation into the death of Timur Kuashev, a journalist from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), is being conducted formally, said Magomed Mutsolgov, the leader of the organization named "Mashr". The version of his death from coronary heart disease is inconclusive, said Valery Khatazhukov, the chairman of the KBR's Human Rights Centre.

Before the appearance of the message about the capture of one of the leaders of the "Islamic State" (IS), a native of Georgia Abu Omar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili), mass media had at least seven times reported about his death. The same was done by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

During the week from December 21 to December 27, 2015, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus claimed nine human lives. These are the results of calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

A video has appeared in social networks, in which masked gunmen are addressing their threats to Khamzat Chumakov, Imam of the Nasyr-Kort mosque, for his anti-IS propaganda. However, Internet users doubt that the authors of the video belong to the militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia.

The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has criticized the republic's Spiritual Centre of Muslims (SCM) and offered the Muftiyat to accept resignation of the Mufti Isa Khamkhoev. However, the SCM has objected to the offer.

In the period from December 20 to December 26, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces kept violating the ceasefire by shelling Karabakh's positions from various-calibre small firearms, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh, adding that the "Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh continues monitoring the contact line."

Tenants of the multi-storey residential building destroyed by the explosion began receiving payments for priority needs in the amount of 20,000 roubles per family.

Inmates of the Chelyabinsk penal colony went on a hunger strike after Sultan Israilov, a native of Chechnya, had died there. The colony personnel assert that he committed suicide, but rights defenders assert that he was killed.

Adam Bogus, Chairman of the "Adyge Khase", has resigned today. Ramazan Tlemeshok has been appointed as the new head of the branch of the organization in Adygea.

Goga Kvaratskheliya has died today at a hospital in Tbilisi after he was shelled from a submachine gun in the eyes of witnesses.

Until December 28, a group of expert will hold a detailed examination of the block of flats in Kosmonavtov Street in Volgograd, where the explosion occurred, after which a search for the fifth casualty will continue under the rubble, said Andrei Bocharov, Governor of the Volgograd Region.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the first concert hall, adapted for people with disabilities, has been opened after capital repairs carried out for the first time during the past 37 years.

Adam Bogus, Chairman of the Adyg regional branch of the "Adyge Khase", intends to resign. According to him, the meeting of the "Adyge Khase" board to resolve the above matter is scheduled for December 26.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been addressed by nine international journalist and human rights organizations, which requested to take them as a third party in the proceedings in the case of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova.

On December 25, in Baku, Fuad Akhmedli, a member of the Youth Committee of the opposition Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest on the charge of disobeying the police.

The murder of Boris Nemtsov had nothing to do with his political activities, the investigator said at the consideration of the complaint on the refusal to reclassify the case into the article dealing with an attempt on the life of a statesman or public figure. The injured party insists that political motives of the murder are unreasonably denied, but the court upheld the investigation's position.

According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), the detainees had been preparing terror acts. Power agents have also reported liquidation of a laboratory for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Thanks to obtaining control over the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Chechenneftekhimprom", Chechen authorities will get a new source of income; however, these funds will be used primarily to strengthen the regime of Ramzan Kadyrov in the republic, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Rostov Regional Court (RRC) has upheld the extension of the arrest of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko.