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The accusation of the 25-year-old citizen of Georgia Beslan Tsintsalashvili, who will face trial for an alleged persuasion of two residents of Chechnya to terrorist activities in the "Islamic State" grouping, is "very flimsy" and untrue, said Luiza Killaeva, the defendant's advocate.

The ignition that occurred in the residential building in Grozny, where the office of the Joint Mobile Group of the Committee against Torture (CaT) is located, is liquidated, said the Chechen Ministry for Emergencies (MfE); nobody suffered.

On Saturday, December 13, a rally against terrorism was held in the Chechen capital. The police said that 50,000 took part in the event.

On December 9-11, Chechnya saw at least two cases of detention of young people by power agents, as reported by residents of the city of Argun and the dwelling settlement of Avtury of the Shali District of the republic. The Chechen MIA claimed that for the last few days there were no complaints from citizens about any kidnappings of their relatives.

The statement of the Chechen leadership about the collective responsibility of militants and the subsequent burning down of relatives' houses are contradictory to Russian law and can recruit new militants in the republic and abroad. This was stated by rights defenders during a press conference on the topic "Collective punishment as a method of dealing with armed underground in Chechnya".

The employees of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who were lost in a special operation in Grozny on December 4, are presented to state awards. Their families will receive help, and, inter alia, since January 1 they will receive all the municipal utilities free of charge.

The Chechen writer Arslan Khasavov is the winner in the nomination "Essays" of the 15th Independent Literary Award "Debut" for his collection of works "Conquering the Space". The ceremony took place on December 11 in Moscow.

Militants, who attacked Grozny at night of December 4, were members of the armed grouping led by field commander Aslan Byutukaev, and they were residents of Chechnya, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has been informed today by a source in the Chechen law enforcement bodies.

Witnesses and participants of the First Chechen War, which began exactly 20 years ago, on December 11, 1994, believe that the tragedy could have been avoided. The Moscow officials and the authorities of the self-proclaimed Ichkeria could have started dialogue, claims Akhmed Yarlykapov.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated the need to check a man named Kalyapin for involvement in organizing the attack on Grozny on December 4, 2014.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has demanded from the Russian authorities to punish those responsible for burning down houses belonging to the relatives of militants killed during the attack on Grozny. Russian authorities should immediately investigate the facts of burning down houses in Chechnya, the AI has stated today.

Today in the morning, in the village of Kotar-Yurt, located in the foothill Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya, a house belonging to the family of Aslan Byutukaev, who is considered to be the head of the battalion of suicide bombers named "Riyad-us Saliheen", was burned down, local residents told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Umar Kadyrov, a relative of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, who was killed in the militants' attack on Grozny on December 4, was a son of the deputy head of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of Russia for the republic, FMS source said today.