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The international academic network Scholars at Risk has appealed to the Azerbaijani government to release researcher Bahruz Samedov. The petition was also supported by the human rights organization Amnesty International and the Norwegian Foundation for International Aid to Students and Scholars.

The case materials against Nikolai Nabiev, Sergei Kuzovenko, and Marina Zakharova, who are accused of creating an illegal armed group, have been submitted to the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. Nabiev is hospitalized with a third heart attack.

A criminal case for participation in a terrorist organization and preparation for a terrorist attack has been opened against a 19-year-old resident of the village of Novaya Adygeya.

Numerous children were beaten in street fights in Krasnodar, after which three teenage girls were detained, but not all parents agreed to file police reports. Psychologists emphasized that violence and the desire to assert oneself through such behavior indicate psychological problems.

The Dagestan Ministry of Energy reported positive trends in the republic's electricity supply. Telegram channel users called the situation catastrophic, while Makhachkala residents reported ongoing power outages.

Krasnodar City Duma deputy Alexander Safronov was summoned to the police on December 17 following a video message recorded by over a thousand residents demanding that the embankment not be built with a church.

Novorossiysk residents complained about water supply not being delivered according to schedule

Kadyrov's statement that Zarema Musayeva was detained because of the Yangulbayev family's work on social media confirms the political nature of her persecution, but in the current reality, the Chechen leader's confession will not lead to a review of Musayeva's sentences, human rights activists noted.

There are no ongoing discussions regarding Russia's participation in the TRIPP project. Official Yerevan also stated that it is taking into account the interests of neighboring countries, such as Iran, in implementing the "Trump Route."

The Istanbul Magistrate's Court for Criminal Cases upheld the decision to place Azerbaijani opposition figure Gultekin Hajibeyli in a deportation center. She considers the court's ruling and the overall decision to deport her unlawful.

Pavel Bataev and his deputy Artur Tsamaev, accused of organizing a terrorist group on the territory of a correctional facility, received 22 and 24 years in prison.

Chechens Timur Dugazayev and Khusein Agayev, having received German citizenship as refugees, maintained contact with Kadyrov's inner circle and represented his interests in Europe, and also made numerous trips to Chechnya. Dugazayev returned to the republic after the imposition of US sanctions, but Agayev remains in Germany.

Two injured residents of the Slavyansky district have been transferred to the Regional Clinical Hospital. Operations at 21 kindergartens and three schools have been suspended.

UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of association and assembly Gina Romero has contacted Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev regarding the case of Azerbaijani human rights activist Anar Mammadli.

Ethnic Ossetian Alan Gatsoev, who spent several months in the no-man's land between Georgia and Russia, received permission to enter South Ossetia. There, authorities provided him with housing and found him a job.

The Moscow District Court granted the Prosecutor General's Office's request to forfeit the homes and foreign cars of Magomed and Ilyas Kushtov, employees of the Ingush Federal Tax Service, suspected of abuse of power resulting in multimillion-dollar damages.

More than 230 members of Azerbaijani families who fled during the Karabakh conflict returned to Lachin, Hadrut, and two other settlements today.

Regular power outages and low voltage in the electrical grid are creating problems for residents of the Dagestani village of Verkhneye Kazanishche, and appeals to the authorities have been unsuccessful.

The Supreme Court of South Ossetia has reviewed the cassation appeals filed by the parties in the Inal Dzhabiev murder case. The decision will be announced on December 22. The parties insist that their appeals be upheld.

In the Slavyansky district of the Krasnodar region, two people were injured and at least five houses were damaged when a drone fell.