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Law enforcers have achieved a "significant breakthrough" in combating the armed underground in Dagestan, but eight militants are still wanted, Abdurashid Magomedov, the head of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has announced.

A ten-month-old baby has died from swine flu in Georgia. As a result, the death toll from the consequences of the H1N1 flu virus has reached 16 humans. At the same time, doctors record a decrease in the flue morbidity in the country.

Contrary to assurances of gas industry professionals that the gas equipment in the collapsed house in the city of Shakhty was in proper order, Vasily Golubev, the head of the Rostov Region, believes that the gas leak was the only version of the explosion. Social network users doubt the official version, recalling the tragedy in Magnitogorsk.

The whereabouts of the Ingush students from the Cairo Islamic is being established; the information about their detention has been confirmed today by the Ambassador of Egypt, Yunus-Bek Evkurov has informed.

This morning, an explosion has occurred in a multi-storey building in the city of Shakhty. Four apartments on the eighth and ninth floors of the residential building are destroyed. One person died, and other seven, including a two-year-old girl who was hospitalized to the regional children's hospital, were rescued from the ruins.

US Congressman Chris Smith has called on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev to "immediately and unconditionally" release blogger Mekhman Guseinov, who is on a hunger strike in prison.

Today, Armenian President Armen Sargsyan has signed a decree to appoint Nikol Pashinyan the Prime Minister of the country.

Celebration of Christmas by Orthodox believers; attacks on law enforcers in Dagestan and Ingushetia; outbreak of swine flu in Georgia; protest actions in front of the Russian military base in Gyumri, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 7-13, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of January 7-13, 2019, six persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, four were killed and other two were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Since late December 2018, in Chechnya, about 40 people were detained for their supposed or actual sexual orientation, and two persons were killed, the "Russian LGBT Network" reports today.

Ilkin Rustamzade, Bairam Mamedov, Akhsan Nuruzade, and Elchin Ismayilli went on a hunger strike with the demand to release all political prisoners in the country.

More than 100 residents of Adygea have sent a letter to the head of the republic, asking him to help in providing proper teaching of the native language in kindergartens and schools. The letter characterizes the situation with the mother tongue in auls (villages) of Adygea as critical.

The law enforcer, who received a gunshot wound during the shelling of the car of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the head of the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE), in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, has died in hospital.

The blogger Mekhman Guseinov, who is holding his hunger strike in SIZO (pre-trial prison), is under strong pressure, said his brother Emin Guseinov. According to Emin, Azerbaijani authorities distort information about his brother's health and try to hide the fact of his hunger strike.

The shelling of a car in Ingushetia, where three policemen were wounded, became the eleventh armed incident in the republic since the start of 2018 and the fifth one with the participation of law enforcers.

Servicemen of the Russian military base in Gyumri failed to come out to the participants of the rally demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Armenia.

The Ingush human rights NGO "Mashr" has awarded 12 diplomas to Laureates of the contest "Heroes of Civil Society". For the first time in eight years, the title of Laureate was awarded posthumously – to the activist Muslim Khashagulgov, killed in a special operation.

On January 10, nine Russian citizens were expelled from Azerbaijan for organizing illegal religious meetings.

The Muslims' Coordinating Centre (MCC) of Northern Caucasus has suspended the participation of the Mufti of Ingushetia, Isa Khamkhoev, in its activities, urging him to "return to the framework of Sharia norms" and not to interfere in the work of state bodies.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is looking for the participants in the attack on policemen in Ingushetia, as a result of which three policemen were wounded; one of them is in a grave condition.