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A district court of Makhachkala has extended for a month the arrest of Salman and Suleiman Kurbanov, the servicemen of the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard), accused of murdering Abakar Kaplanov, a former head of the village of Novokuli, the Dagestani Supreme Court (SC) has informed.

In Ingushetia, Ibragim Aushev, a participant in the road conflict with Rasul Usmaev, a son of the deputy head of the Chechen Security Council (SC), has been placed under house arrest.

In 2021, not a single carjack was registered in Chechnya; and the only case of carjack was not a vehicle theft, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated in response to data that the republic was among the regions with a high number of carjacks.

Junior Sergeant Elkhan Avazly is charged with killing three border guards, and he is taken into custody, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan reports.

The President of Abkhazia removed from office Beslan Bigvava, the head of the Ochamchira District, who was involved as a suspect in a case on shooting and wounding a person in a Sukhumi restaurant on the New Year’s Eve.

A post mentioning the thousands of “invaders” killed during an assault on Grozny by federal troops in 1994 was about terrorists and war criminals, says Captain Ilyas Soltaev from the Akhmat Kadyrov special-purpose police regiment. According to him, the posted phrase was misinterpreted by “Internet provocateurs.”

The police did not allow opposition-elected Mayor of Vardenis to enter the Mayoralty and explained that the ruling party had challenged his election in court. Agaron Khachatryan had to take the oath in the street.

This year, the traditional festive Orthodox Christmas “Alilo” procession will not take place in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, but on January 7, an action of raising Christmas donations will take place in Tbilisi, the Patriarchate of Georgian reports.

A serviceman of one of the units of the Armenia Army has been detained after his colleague died from a gunshot wound.

According to the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), in January-November, 2021, a total of 268 crimes related to bribe-taking were registered in the Krasnodar Territory. This region took the second place, losing only to Moscow. The top ten most corrupt regions of Russia also include the Stavropol Territory and the Rostov Region.

In 2021, eight air defence systems, 64 guided missile complexes, 10 mortar launchers, more than a hundred grenade launchers and other weapons were found in the territories of Nagorno-Karabakh, which came under Azerbaijan's control as a result of the last autumn war.

Georgian authorities must report about the steps undertaken to release Mamuka Chkhikvadze, who was detained on the South-Ossetian border in December, the protesters have claimed.

In their open letter to the President of Azerbaijan, Eldar Gasanov's advocates have expressed doubts about the fair trial of the case of Gasanov, a former public prosecutor general, and asked Ilham Aliev to intervene in the situation with Gasanov.

At a meeting with the protesting tenants of the shelter for homeless people in Yerevan, officials of the Ministry of Labour and Social Matters refused to solve the problems of the shelter, which they have decided to disband, the protesters have complained.

Today, journalists of the edition "Novoye Delo" (New Clause) and the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft) have held solo pickets in the centre of Makhachkala. The protestors demand to stop arrests without proof and to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev.

Chechnya marked the Day of Memory of Kunta-Khadji Kishiev with mass religious events.

Mikhail Saakashvili, who was returned to the Rustavi prison, demands to allow independent doctors visit him and to ensure confidentiality of communication with advocates. The former president of Georgia threatens to start a protest, the defence reports today.

During the week of December 27, 2021-January 2, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Russian militaries, acting jointly with employees of the charity association, have held a humanitarian action at the children's rehabilitation centre in Stepanakert.

During the combat training, military servicemen will master their skills of setting up and using groupings in operative directions; they will also take part in the all-army contests "ArMI-2022", the press service of the Southern Military District has informed.