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The Georgian Govt's plans to build the "Khadori-3" hydroelectric power plant (HPP) have split residents of the Pankisi Gorge into two camps; the conflict was exacerbated by the political confrontation.

A Russian suspected of assassinating Zelimkhan Khangoshvili has been transferred from the Moabit Prison into the high security prison in Tegel. The decision was made by employees of the State Criminal Investigation Department: they received information that the killer is in danger of liquidation, the "Berliner Morgenpost" newspaper has written.

On December 6, a Volgograd court extended by two months the detention of five Jehovah Witnesses*. Their relatives complain that investigators ban to visit the detainees.

A participant of the second Chechen military campaign, one of the field commanders close to Shamil Basaev and Aslan Maskhadov. Shot dead in Berlin in 2019.

In Moscow and Ingushetia, six persons have been detained in a case on the murder of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre "E"). Entrepreneur Khasan Polonkoev, one of the detainees, led the grouping involved in the murder, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) suggests.

Nail Mukhanov, a resident of Astrakhan, accused of illicit trafficking of ammunition and explosive devices, claims that the case against him has been fabricated.

While refusing to rehabilitate Vali Bagautdinov, who was killed in the attack on a policeman, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has failed to take into account the testimony of a witness, who had stated that he was forced to slander the defendant. The SC has also neglected other arguments of the defence, Gulnara Bagautdinova, Vali's mother, has stated.

Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who was killed in Germany, had cooperated with Georgian special services only under Mikhail Saakashvili. After the change of power, these services began contacting their Russian colleagues; and Khangoshvili was forced to leave the country, his acquaintances have told.

The jury twice pronounced verdicts of acquittal in the case on the murder in 2016 of Zhalalutdin Sungurov, a resident of Dagestan, and the cassation court acquitted the defendant in spite of the requests voiced by public prosecutor, the "Mediazona" reports today.

Today, the Southern District Military Court has sentenced Muslim Enver Seitosmanov, accused of involvement in a Sevastopol unit of an organization banned in Russia by the court, to 17-year-old of imprisonment in a penal colony. The defence treats the court's decision as politically motivated.

Former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan does not agree with the charge of embezzlement and treats a case against him as political persecution, his office reports.

The German Chancellor has confirmed that the decision of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to expel two Russian diplomats had to do with the Russia's unwillingness to help in the investigation of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Social network users have expressed bewilderment at the absence of real sanctions against Russia.

In 2015-2016, Ismail and Mukhtar Kurbanov from Dagestan were in their native village and did not fight in Syria, their advocate has stated in court and presented the confirming documents.