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Late at night on December 9, in Makhachkala, policemen shot dead a suspected militant, who was identified as Ruslan Darsamov, the leader of the Makhachkala armed grouping, who was involved in killings of law enforcers and civilians, said the press centre of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of the Russian Federation.

Chechen law enforcers have conducted passport checks in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny. The republic has stepped up security measures after the militants' attack on Grozny on December 4 and on the eve of the New Year holidays, the spokesman of the Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Chechnya explained.

At the trial of Mardiros Demerchyan, a builder of Olympic facilities in Sochi, who is accused of a false denunciation of policemen, his defence stated a violation of a number of legal acts of the Russian Federation in the course of the investigation and offered the court to acquit the builder.

A resident of Stavropol Jamal Makhmudov, born in 1984, went missing on December 8, after policemen searched his house, his wife Madina told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the Karabudakhkent District Court of Dagestan has ruled to arrest Kamil Guliev, whose disappearance was reported by his wife, for one month. His defence intends to appeal against the ruling.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported referring to locals that on December 7 in the village of Yandi, Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya, power agents burnt down houses of three families of the relatives of members of the armed underground killed on December 4 in Grozny.

Today, an action of the members of the Yazidi community was held in front of the Armenian Parliament, who demanded from the MPs to recognize the attacks on Yazidis in Iraq as an act of genocide. About ten members of the Yazidi community of Armenia handed over a letter with their demands to the parliamentary factions.

Today, the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow has rejected the complaint, lodged by the "Don Women" Union against putting the organization into the register of the so-called "foreign agents" by the Russia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted the complaint of the arrested Azerbaijani rights defender Rasul Jafarov against his freedom restriction measure, said his legal representative Gyunay Ismayilova.

A group of rights defenders in Azerbaijan have expressed their readiness to take Khadija Ismayilova, the arrested employee of the local service of Radio Liberty on bail.

A subbotnik was held in the Chechen capital, when local residents helped to clear up the House of Press and School No. 20, damaged during the recent counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Grozny. Employees of state institutions were involved in the works, said a source from the city administration.

The statements of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov about relatives' responsibility for militants' actions are contrary to the law, said Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee Against Torture, in his appeals to the bosses of the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office and the Investigating Committee.

Kamil Guliev, a resident of Makhachkala, whose kidnapping was reported by his wife, is in the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) of the Karabudakhkent ROVD (District Interior Division). Guliev's relatives believe that the case against him was fabricated.

Jundallah Shishani, a field commander of Syrian militants and a close ally of Omar Shishani, the commander of the northern sector of the "Islamic State" (IS), was killed in Syria during clashes in the town of Kobane. Earlier, different sources at least five times reported about the murder of Omar Shishani himself.

On December 8, in the city of Akhalkalaki, located in Southern Georgia, a protest action against illegal actions of the police was held in front of the municipality council. The protesters said that law enforcers had violated the law by beating up several young men.

Investigators have sent a petition to the Moscow Basmanny Court asking to extend the home arrest of Levon Airapetyan, a businessmen and a member of the Armenian Diaspora in the Russian Federation, the court press secretary said on December 8.

The Rostov journalist and publisher Alexander Tolmachov, convicted by the Kuschevskaya District Court of the Krasnodar Territory to 9 years in high-security colony on charges of extortion, said that he was beaten up by the staff of SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 2 of the city of Armavir. Today, his public defender has filed a complaint to the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (FSIN).

The advocate of Magomed Aliev, a native of Dagestan, suspected of promoting terrorism, has informed the court today about the grave condition of his client and asked the court to consider the appeal lodged against Aliev's arrest in his absence.

The restoration works on the buildings of the House of Press and School No. 20, which were destroyed during the special operation in Grozny on December 4, are continued day and night. The authorities plan to reopen the House of Press before the end of this year, and School No. 20 – after the New Year holidays.

Today, the Yasamal District Court of Baku has dismissed the complaint lodged by journalist Tapdyg Farkhadoglu about the refusal of Mubariz Asadov, an investigator of the district prosecutor's office to open a criminal investigation into the beating of the journalist.