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Some sources have reported that in the warfare in Ukraine, near Donetsk, one Georgian volunteer was killed; and three others were wounded. So far, there is no official confirmation of this information.

Two pickets against the Russian aggression in Ukraine were held in Volgograd and passed without detentions. The picketers were holding posters reading "No to Russian-Ukrainian war!" and "Russia is at war with Ukraine".

The inquiry into the murder of a family in Gyumri will be carried out as promptly as possible; and all those guilty will be punished, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised today in his telephone conversation with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan.

In the course of a special operation in Nalchik power agents shot dead a 23-year-old local resident, who took part in the warfare in Syria as an explosive expert, said a law enforcement source.

In the vicinity of the village of Verkhnestepnoe, Stepnovsky District of the Stavropol Territory, an unidentified man opened fire at policemen from his car and was killed by return fire, said a law enforcement source.

Relatives of Sultan Karasov, a disappeared resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), came out to protest and tried to block the "Cherkessk-Nevinnomyssk" highway. The action was stopped after authorities promised to find his whereabouts.

Over 20,000 people took to the all-Ingushetia rally "Islam against Terrorism", where they protested, in particular, against publication of caricatures on Prophet Muhammad, said a source from the press service of the head of the republic.

A complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been submitted by the advocates of the residents of Chechnya Said-Magomed Tsetiev, Khamzat Tsetiev and Khamid Razhapov, suspected of assaulting employees of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) in Moscow.

One hundred of Chechen recruits have sworn in and began their serve in the units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) deployed in their republic.

The military agencies of Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have reported ceasefire violations on the troops contact line.

The sentence to the protesters, who took part in the "Million Mask March", should be abolished, because their guilt was not proved, the convicts' advocates declared to the Court of Appeal (CoA). The convicts have also demanded acquittal and stressed the political character of their case.

In Dagestan, on January 1, the printing of one of the republic's – the "Nastoyaschee Vremya" (Present Time) – was suspended. Not earlier than March, the weekly will start its electronic version. The reorganization will lead to dismissal of four out of six full-time employees, said the editor-in-chief Milrad Fatullaev.

The Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, accused of killing the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, must face the Armenian justice, rights defenders of Armenia believe. However, they doubt that the Russian party will give him out to Armenia.

Sultan Karasov was kidnapped in Stavropol, his relatives assert. They cannot find him for 8 days and do not rule out that he could be detained by power agents.

Aybike Saygidalieva, a resident of the Dagestan village of Shamkhal, the widow of Magomedarip Magomedov, who was killed in August 2014, whose disappearance was reported by local rights defenders, has returned home after interrogation at the Kizilyurt Inter-District Investigating Division of the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The Committee against Torture (CaT), which includes the rights defenders working in Chechnya in the Joint Mobile Group (JMG), has been put on the register of non-profit organizations (NPOs, treated as "foreign agents", said the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia.

Members of seven parties of South Ossetia have appealed to the political council under the Republic's President demanding to publish the draft treaty on South-Ossetian-Russian alliance and integration. The ruling party has treated the demand as a PR-move, stating that the political council had decided that the final version of the treaty will be published.

The murder of six family members in Gyumri, committed by a suspected Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, occurred in the territory of Armenia and should be investigated by law-enforcement bodies of this country.

Appeal complaints against the verdict in the case about the attack on Nalchik were submitted by 53 out of 57 convicts, including all five of them, sentenced to life imprisonment.

Diana Ramazanova, who committed, according to law enforcement bodies of Turkey, a terror act in Istanbul, was the wife of a native of Chechnya Abu Edelbiev, who was killed in Syria, and was a member, together with him, of the extremist organization "Islamic State" (IS), said a source from the Turkish intelligence service.