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Today in the morning, in the Sunzha District of Chechnya, an unidentified person opened fire at policemen: a special-force agent was wounded. The attacker was shot dead by response fire and was pre-identified as a member of the Makhauri grouping. The district was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

Today, Grozny reopens the House of Press, which was damaged during the special operation against militants on December 4. Journalists of "Molodyozhnaya Smena" (Youth Generation) have already returned to their offices in the building; the remaining tenants plan to do in the coming days, said a source from the Grozny administration. The marketplace "Berkat" has partially resumed its work.

Residents of the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny have reported that in the evening on December 24 law enforcers checked their passports. A source from the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said that the checks are of preventive pre-holiday character. Meanwhile, residents of Grozny fear of a new militants' attack.

The Attorney Office of the United States has disagreed with the petition lodged by the advocates of the ethnic Chechen Johar Tsarnaev, who is accused of organizing the terror act at the Boston Marathon, to postpone the trial until September 2015.

Magomed Karsamov, a native of the Chechen Republic, has disappeared under unclear circumstances in Moscow. According to his relatives, the young man was kidnapped by law enforcers

At night on December 21, the house of the family of the Chechen field commander Aslambek Vadalov in the village of Ishkhoy-Yurt, Gudermes District of Chechnya, was demolished by power agents with the help of bulldozers, local residents report.

The advocates of Johar Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, who is accused of organizing the terror act at the Boston Marathon run, have petitioned to postpone the start of the trial until September 2015.

This afternoon, Zurab Bisiev, who was wounded in the militants' attack on Grozny, has died at the Moscow MIA hospital. Thus, the number of law enforcers lost in the above attack has reached 15.

As of December 23, in Chechnya, law enforcers demolished 15 houses of militants' relatives, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported today, and confirmed, in particular, the data of the "Caucasian Knot" about burning down of a militant's family house in the Gudermes District.

The advocates of Johar Tsarnaev, who is accused of organizing the terror act during the Boston Marathon Run, have again petitioned to move the trial from Boston to some other city.

The attack of members of the armed underground on Grozny resulted in the death of two civilians, not one, as stated earlier, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has stated today.

The house in the village of Koshkeldy, Gudermes District of Chechnya, belonging to a militant's family and demolished on December 19 was uninhabited, rights defenders from the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to their version, the Shabanov family, who owned the house, left the country more than a year ago.

During the week of December 15-21, 2014, at least three persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded persons were reported. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.