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The PR Centre (PRC) of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) has announced today liquidation in Moscow of a secret shop for manufacturing weapons and ammunition, and detention of its would-be owner – a 19-year-old native of Dagestan.

A Russian, suspected of involvement in terrorism, has been killed in the course of a special operation in Kiev, reports the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU). The casualty was a native of Dagestan, the Ukrainian mass media report.

Abdurashid Magomedov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, has reported that a lot of natives of Dagestan left for Syria with their family members and children. According to the Minister, all of the men who left for Syria are put on the federal wanted list.

Advocates of Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus have positively assessed the abolition of their clients' prison sentences. However, the advocates are not satisfied with the fact that the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has not pronounced the verdict of not guilty.

In Azerbaijan, Natiq Kerimov, one of the elders of Nardaran, who was detained on December 9, was questioned as a witness in the case of the events in the village. He had to sign a recognizance not to disclose the secrecy of the investigation. Natiq Kerimov was released after having spent six hours at the police station.

The Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office insists on involvement of Fuad Gakhramanly, Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) and a member of the National Council of Democratic Forces, in inciting people to religious extremism in the village of Nardaran. The PFPA denies the accusation and believes Gakhramanly to be a "prisoner of conscience".

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has commuted the sentences for human rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus, a political analyst. The BCA has cancelled their sentences and replaced the actual terms of imprisonment with conditional imprisonment.

The court has pronounced against Fuad Gakhramanly, Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of a three-month arrest. Fuad Gakhramanly rejects all accusations. His defence intends to appeal against the court's decision.

Residents of Chechnya Khasan Sagaev and Rasul Mukaev were kidnapped by Russian power agents and got missing, while the authorities' inquiry into their disappearances was held inefficiently, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled and awarded compensation to relatives of the missing persons in the amount of 64,000 and 84,000 euros, accordingly.

The Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has stopped the criminal case initiated against the local resident, who was killed by power agents in 2011 and charged with assaulting policemen. The court refused to rehabilitate the men, as his relatives had requested.

In Astrakhan, the criminal case has been instituted against 27-year-old Maya Duisengalieva, suspected of providing financial assistance to supporters of radical Islamism. The woman has been put on the international wanted list.

The pleadings at the trial of the case of the Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova were held today at the Oktiabrskiy District Court of Krasnodar. Prosecutors demanded to sentence her to 3.5 years in a settlement-colony, Andrei Sabinin, a Polyudova's advocate, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The defence, in its turn, has stated at the pleadings that Polyudova is tried for "expressing her thoughts", and she is not guilty of the alleged crimes.

Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has begun considering on the merits the appeal complaint lodged by Leyla and Arif Yunus. During the session Leyla was inside a glass cage; she looked highly exhausted and pale. Arif was sitting in the courtroom next to their advocates, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.