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On far-fetched charges, Abdulmumin Gadjiev is prosecuted for his professional activities; the case against him should be closed, well-known Russian journalists have stated in their appeal in support of their colleague from the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly and website.

According to materials found by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", two residents of Chechnya, who looked like their brothers included in the "execution list," misled the Russia's Ombudsperson.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan dismissed an appeal filed by journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev and left him in custody until March 13.

In Azerbaijan, opposition candidates faced obstacles to their meetings with voters, and their campaign materials were spoiled, the "Musavat" Party claimed.

Activist Mher Pogosyan followed the example of Alexander Kananyan and declared a hunger strike with the demand to stop the construction of small hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) in two districts of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Resonant statement on the completed demarcation of the Chechen border; ECtHR's decision on complaints filed by relatives of people disappeared in Northern Caucasus; appointment of the voting date for the elections in Nagorno-Karabakh, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 20-26, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of January 20-26, 2020, no one fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Charges of extremism brought against Ingush activists are of political nature, declares Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the human rights organization "Mashr". He believes that the case against the Ingush activists was fabricated.

An African student and a girl publicly apologized for dancing in Vladikavkaz, which was regard as indecent by locals. Instagram users have argued whether the student who came from abroad should apologize in this case.

The video with apologies of the Grozny resident Alaudin Khangoshvili for the theft was made public in the popular Instagram account "ChP/Chechnya." The police have humiliated Khangoshvili by making public his apologies, social network users believe.

Law enforcers have detained residents of Chechnya involved in distributing a photo collage with the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kavkaz.Realii reports.

The installation of controversial monuments in the regions of the Caucasus can be explained by the desire of the authorities to gain favor with the federal center, experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

During an interrogation, Rostov blogger Gaspar Avakyan, accused of extortion of money, pleaded not guilty to any episode.

In Berlin, the court found a native of Dagestan guilty of plotting an explosion in a shopping centre and sentenced him to five years and four months of imprisonment.

After the information about torture of Alizamin Salaev at a police station had been made public, the Azerbaijani activist was visited by staff members of the Ombudsman's Office. A son of the activist reports that Alizamin Salaev got his internal organs damaged and he needs surgery.

The election campaign in Azerbaijan is passing under restriction of the freedom of assembly and is accompanied by persecutions of oppositionists, which does not contribute to democratic parliamentary elections. This was stated by a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) after its trip to Baku.

On January 24, Alexander Kananyan, a political analyst, was visited by Grigory Martirosyan, a minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), and told him about the environmental threats of the operation of small hydropower plants (HPPs) on the Trtu River. Mr Kananyan refused to end his hunger strike, because no decision was made to stop the HPPs.

After the “velvet” revolution in Armenia, cases of domestic violence and discrimination against LGBT people and people with disabilities have not been eradicated, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated. The authorities do not deny these problems, but not everything is done to solve them, Yerevan rights defenders believe.

The prosecutor’s office has sent to the court the case to a resident of Kuban (a common name of the Krasnodar Territory by the name of the main river), accused of killing a same-sex couple of pensioners in the Seversky District.

Policemen have found no signs of an offense in Ramzan Kadyrov’s public appeals to crack down on authors of gossips about Chechnya, a Nizhny Novgorod journalist said. Facebook users have noted that they had expected no different response from law enforcers.