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The prosecutor's office of the city of Kislovodsk has cancelled the decision not to institute criminal proceedings on the fact of threats received by Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov, said his advocate Alaudi Musaev.

At the International Conference in Grozny "Terek Turks as Cultural Bridge of Chechen Republic with Turkic World" Kumyk organization presented curricula for training Kumyk students at the leading universities of the Turkic countries and a project of a boarding Lyceum to be opened near the city of Gudermes.

Steven Silva, an acquaintance of Johar Tsarnaev, accused of organizing a terror act at the Boston Marathon race, has pled guilty to distributing heroin and illegal possession of firearms. According to the prosecution, Tsarnaev brothers used the pistol, kept by Silva, to kill a policeman.

On December 18, in the village of Koshkeldy, Gudermes District of Chechnya, a family home of a member of the armed underground was demolished, local residents report.

As stated by participants of a press conference in Yerevan, this year was rather strained for the press and journalists; and the number of incidents of physical pressure on journalists or obstruction to obtaining information practically did not go down.

Ilkin Rustamzade, a member of the movement "Free Youth", who is imprisoned in Azerbaijan, was put into the dungeon of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) – for the second time this month.

The Baku Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal lodged by Rasul Jafarov, the coordinator of the campaign "Arts for Democracy", who asked to replace his custody for home arrest.

The advocate of the 17-year-old native of Chechnya, who was convicted on charges of committing a resonant murder of Ruslan Marzhanov, a resident of the city of Pugachov, Saratov Region, announced his intention to appeal against the verdict.

The Armenian Court of Appeal (CoA) took up the appeals lodged against the sentences passed to Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tseghakron" Party, and other persons involved in the "Million Mask March" and formed a panel of judges. The defence insists on acquittal of all activists.

Abu Mukhammad, Amir of Dagestan, said that he takes an oath to the "Islamic State" (IS). This is the second time in Dagestan within the last month, when the leaders of militants' formations take an oath to the IS; and both of these cases indicate a split in the "Imarat Kavkaz", recognized as a terrorist organization.

Selim Magomedov, the advocate of the convicted Alautdin Dadaev, has stated that the sentence passed by the court in the case of the terror acts committed in Volgograd disregarded the arguments of the defence, while the verdict as such was based on investigators' speculations.

At least 22 people were victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in November 2014, of which 15 people were killed, and 7 others wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

In the city of Gudermes power agents have demolished three private houses owned by families of the members of the armed underground. Earlier it was reported about demolition of two houses.

A protest action against depreciation of the national currency and rise in prices was held in Yerevan on Friday in front of the government, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

On Friday, after the Juma namaz in Buynaksk, policemen detained several parishioners of the Salafi mosque, said a local resident. Several mosque-goers were brought to the police. In his turn, a source from the Buynaksk GOVD (City Interior Division), assured that all the believers will be released after checking their IDs.

This time again, deficit budgets have been brought for discussion to the Parliament of the Republics of Northern Caucasus. Officials claim that measures to reduce budget deficits are taken.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) began checking the statement of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov about a possible involvement of "a certain Kalyapin" in financing militants.

The House of Press in the Chechen capital, damaged in the course of the militants' attack on Grozny, will be fully restored by December 25. The repairs of School No. 20 and pavilions of the "Berkat" Shopping Centre are near completion, said the Grozny Mayoralty.

In the course of the operation conducted on December 18 in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in the village of Dygulybgey, which makes a part of the city of Baksan, apart from Andzor Guchapshev, the leader of the local underground, his accomplice Martin Abazov was also killed.

On December 18, the office staff of Elmira Suleimanova, the Ombudsperson of Azerbaijan, visited the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where the journalist Khadija Ismayilova is kept, and gave her legal advice.