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Investigators have opened a criminal case against two residents of the Krasnodar Territory. According to law enforcers, the suspects had an intention to join illegal armed formations (IAFs) operating in the territory of Syria.

In Dagestan, Suleiman Kokreksky, Imam of the mosque at the city hospital in Khasavyurt, was one when he was killed, and his father was not wounded. This was reported by relatives of the Imam.

In Yerevan, members of the opposition march have returned to Freedom Square and announced the start of an indefinite sitting picket. The activists asked the authorities for permission to install tents on Freedom Square. However, their request was dismissed.

A police squad was shelled near the village of Kulzeb of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan.

In Dagestan, unidentified men have shot and killed the Imam of the mosque at the city hospital of Khasavyurt. His father was wounded.

The estimate of 17,000 striking truckers in Dagestan is quite realistic, believe local journalists and Valery Voitko, the chairman of the trade union, "Dalnoboischik" (Trucker). However, Alexander Brod, a member of the Public Council of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has treated the number as strongly exaggerated.

Power agents take away residents of the Azerbaijani village of Nardaran to some unknown place, eyewitnesses reported.

The figurants in the case of recruiting people for fighting for the "Islamic State" (IS) have been sentenced today to imprisonment from 5 to 7 years – the guilty verdict was handed down today by the North-Caucasian District Military Court.

Any motor traffic is banned in the Azerbaijani village of Nardaran; and power agents ask local residents not to leave their houses. The village is densely cordoned off by power agents.

A column of heavy-duty trucks, which planned to enter the Russian capital on December 21, was stopped today on a narrow road near Moscow.

A militant has been killed in a forest of the Buynaksk District of Dagestan during a shootout, said a local law enforcement source.

The administration of the colony-settlement in the Tambov Region ignores the official notification of the Krasnodar environmental activist Evgeny Vitishko about his hunger strike and sends him to hard work, said Elena Shmakova, his civil wife.

In Azerbaijan, the entire population of the village of Nardaran should not suffer from preventive measures aimed to prevent religious radicalism, local rights defenders have stated. They believe that citizens may be influenced on by solution of a number of social problems.

Georgian public organizations and the Bar Association have stood against the amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure of Georgia, involving the introduction of a new system of questioning. They believe that these amendments violate a number of procedural principles and will open room for torture.

In Makhachkala, the mosque in Kotrov Street was cordoned off by law enforcers in connection with the information about a bomb. This was reported by members of the mosque community. The information about the explosive device has not been confirmed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

The Armenian police have warned organizers of protest actions about the inadmissibility of violating the law.

The new Transport Minister of Dagestan Saygitpasha Umakhanov has preserved control over Khasavyurt, even after stepping down as Mayor; therefore, his transition to a less influential post is not a demotion, said Gadjimurad Sagitov and Musa Musaev, the editors-in-chief of the editions "Novoye Delo" and "Nastoyeascheye Vremya", accordingly.

Residents of Nardaran managed to learn the names of all those detained in the course of the special operation conducted in the village. The situation in Nardaran remains tense; the village streets were cleared of barricades; however, the village has no electricity and telephone communication.

Saigidpasha Umakhanov, ex-Mayor of Khasavyurt, has been officially appointed the head of the Ministry of Transport, Energy and Communications for Dagestan, created by restructuring of a number of public institutions. This was reported by Telman Radjabov, a press officer of the Ministry.

Arthur Akhmetkhanov, Minister of the Internal Affairs for North Ossetia, has written a resignation letter in connection with the case of the death of detained Vladimir Tskaev. This was reported by local media. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has denied the information and noted that the Minister is on a long vacation.