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The Azerbaijani law enforcement bodies refuse to institute criminal proceedings in a case on the use of force against Zhalya Bairamova at a polling station during parliamentary elections. This was stated by her father, opposition politician Gubad Ibadoglu.

Kalmyk activists expressed their dissatisfaction with a party penalty as the only response to the statement about the deportation of Kalmyks voiced by Vladimir Shtygashev, the speaker of the parliament of Khakassia, a member of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party. The activists announced holding a next action.

The Volgograd administration did not sanction a rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in the city centre with reference to an alleged need for cleaning and landscaping.

Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered the Grozny City Mayoralty to seize private houses looking like abandoned if owners do not agree to put them in order. Residents of Grozny are concerned over the officials' plans.

The Baku court refused to consider a claim filed by Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), about the refusal to issue a passport for him. The opposition leader regarded the court's decision as politically motivated and announced his intention to challenge it.

Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed Abuzayd Vismuradov, the head of his guard and close childhood friend, to the post of the deputy chairman of the government in charge of the power block.

Employees of the "Legal Initiative" have called to prosecute law enforcers in connection with the murder of a girl, who got into the operative footage in Ingushetia. Human rights defenders also insist that the authorities should ensure the safety of the second girl, also captured by the video.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has made two decisions on complaints of Azerbaijani Jehovah's Witnesses*, obliging the government to pay them more than 24,000 euros of compensations.

Bagaudin Myakiev, a member of the Council of Teips of the Ingush nation, was sentenced to one year and ten months in a colony. The prosecution failed to politicize Myakiev's actions, his advocate has stated.

Lawyers of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" have sent their objections to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the request of the Russian authorities to dismiss the complaint in the case of the abduction of Zalina Elkhoroeva, a resident of Ingushetia. Her father insists that his daughter was killed by law enforcers.

The State Security Service of Azerbaijan conducted a special operation in the building of the Neftchala District administration and detained several officials on suspicion of violating the rights of local residents.

Today, lawyers of the "Committee Against Torture" (CaT) have appealed to the Strasbourg Court with a complaint about a violation of the rights of Ibragim Yangulbaev, a native of Chechnya. Human rights defenders pointed to the beating of Ibragim Yangulbaev by law enforcers and unjustified arrest.

Three residents of Derbent, who stopped contacting their relatives and friends during a trip to Grozny, are being kept at one of the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya, a mother of one of the disappeared men reports. Before his disappearance, her son posted a video criticizing Ramzan Kadyrov.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in villages located on the border with Armenia and in the conflict zone with Nagorno-Karabakh were shelled 23 times within 24 hours, including from machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

Three natives of Dagestan are wanted as missing, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports. Instagram users argue whether the kidnapping could be ordered by the Chechen authorities.

The Bavarian Supreme Court sent for a new consideration a case against Mohmad Abdurakhmanov, who was fined 1350 euros for his posts on social networks. This was reported on February 19 by his brother, Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov.

After his release today, the former Prime Minister of Georgia, who in 2016 was sentenced to imprisonment, promised to resume his political activities.

Those residents of the republic, who plan to make Hajj this year, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that they have already begun preparing for the upcoming tour.

On February 18, Rufat Safarov, a former investigator of the Azerbaijani Prosecutor's Office (PO), was taken to one of the divisions of some power structure, where he was demanded to stop criticizing the authorities in social networks.

A native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), arrested in Moscow for beating up his stepson, has been boycotted by his cellmates at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), the Public Oversight Commission (POC) has reported. The man, accused of torturing a child, deserves no forgiveness, Instagram users have commented.