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Law enforcers have tortured Abdul Magomedov, a resident of Khasavyurt, with electric current, trying to knock out a confession to the creation of an illegal armed formation (IAF), the defence has stated. Other confessions to this case were given by two local residents.

Georgia has unsuccessfully tried to raise the issue of the death of Archil Tatunashvili, who was detained on the border. Tskhinvali complained about reports of Georgian mass media on the humanitarian catastrophe in South Ossetia.

During the past 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani troops were attacked for 20 times, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

The participants of the action in Tbilisi have stated that Azerbaijanis' protests will continue until the monument to Mikhail Avagyan, a veteran of the Nagorno-Karabakh War, erected in Akhalkalaki, is dismantled.

The Russian-language version of the "Aravot" is excluded from the register of violators of the law on the protection of personal data, the editor-in-chief of the online edition has reported. Earlier, the editorial board received three demands from the "Roskomnadzor" to exclude the name of a Russian businessman from publications.

The public council of the Nasyr-Kort Mosque in Ingushetia has called on the Muslims' Coordination Centre (MCC) of Northern Caucasus to stand up for the book interpreting the Koran in the translation of the philosopher, Elmir Kuliev, which the prosecutor's office demanded to treat as an extremist one.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is unaware of the real situation in the republic: in spite of his orders, the problems of Kenkhi residents remain unresolved, said Ramazan Djalaldinov, a local resident.

The court in Magas refused to satisfy the complaint about the investigators' refusal to provide the case files about the attack on journalists on the Chechen-Ingush border in 2016, Andrei Sabinin, a lawyer from the "Agora" has stated.

The Kremlin closes its eyes to the events involving people from Ramzan Kadyrov's retinue; therefore, the incident with Murad Saidov in the Crimea will not affect the relationships of Russian top leaders to the head of Chechnya, political analysts believe.

The case of Anar Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the "criminal.az (criminalaz.com)" website, indicates that the authorities have stopped looking for far-fetched reasons for persecuting independent media outlets, and decided to openly persecute them for specific publications, the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) has stated.

Idris Yusupov, a journalist of the newspaper "Novoye Delo" (New Cause), detained near a Salafi mosque in Makhachkala, reported that he had been released from the police station without any explanations. Another detainee reported that law enforcers wanted to draw up protocols against him and two other believers, but changed their minds.

Rostov activist Anastasia Shevchenko was arrested for her political views and participation in peaceful assemblies, stated the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". The criminal proceedings against the activist prove preparation of a new wave of repression, rights defenders believe.

On February 7, residents of the Gumbetovsky District took part in a meeting on the issue of the border between their district and Chechnya. The neighbouring republic voiced a number of claims on the land plots, a specialist on land issues announced.

Idris Yusupov, an employee of the Dagestani newspaper "Novoye Delo" (New Cause), was brought to a police station after filming the detention of three persons near a Salafi mosque in Makhachkala. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) does not confirm the information about the believers' detention.

Makka Khamkhoeva, a resident of Ingushetia, explained she felt aggrieved when she said that the Chechen authorities should help those in need and not give gifts to female singers.

Ovannes Galstyan, who demands to resume funding of his film "My Grandma's Curls", has given up the idea of a dry hunger strike, explaining that he wanted to save his strength for further struggle. The consideration of his lawsuit to the National Cinema Centre (NCC) of Armenia is deliberately protracted, he said.

The regional permanent representatives of Ramzan Kadyrov have no deputies, the Chechen Minister, Djambulat Umarov, has commented on the detention of Murad Saidov, a Deputy Permanent Representative in the Crimea.

The court that is considering the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", is supporting all the prosecution's arguments and rejects all the defence's motions, since they reveal gross falsifications, Oyub Titiev's advocates assert.

The publication about the detention in Chechnya of Bekkhan Yusupov has helped save his life, says Igor Kochetkov, the head of the Russian LGBT Network. Yusupov's advocate claims that prior to his client's arrival in Grozny, he was in mortal danger.

The authorities of Chechnya and Dagestan have agreed to fix the mutual border by the end of 2019. The parties have reached an understanding on this issue; it remains to finalize technical issues, said Khizri Shikhsaidov, the Speaker of the Dagestani Parliament. Both authorities do not claim for any territories, Magomed Daudov, the head of the Chechen Parliament, has stated.