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Church servants in the Shida Kartli region found a grenade among the icons, next to which was a note asking to forgive the sins.

The police are investigating the incident with women-activists of the "Apricot Country" at a sitting of the Yerevan Council of Elders that occurred on February 13.

The shooter at believers at the Kizlyar church was a "lone wolf", not directly linked with the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia, which has claimed responsibility for the attack, assert the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Earlier, the IS reported the attack of its supporters on law enforcers only.

Azerbaijani activists Tural Sadygly and Ordukhan Temirkhan, living in Europe, have reported detention of their relatives in Azerbaijan. Law enforcers have demanded to influence his son who is criticizing the authorities, said Sadygly's father.

Investment Forum in Sochi; law enforcers' CTO and shooting of holidaymakers in Dagestan; Saakashvili's deportation from Ukraine to Poland; celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Karabakh liberation movement, – read the review of these events in the Caucasus that happened during the week of February 12-18, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Lyudmila Scherbakova, Honoured Doctor of Dagestan, Vera Morgunova, Chair of the War Veteran Council for the Kizlyar District, appeared to be among the people who fell victims to an attack on believers which occurred in Kizlyar on February 18.

During the week of February 12-18, 2018, eight people were killed and at least four others were wounded in 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.

Athletes from Azerbaijan and Georgia have won four gold medals at the Open European Judo Championships held in Austria.

A shooting of believers in Kizlyar has become the first incident in Dagestan in 2018, the responsibility for which was claimed by the "Islamic State" (IS, banned in Russia), and the 11th incident for the whole period of its existence.

An appeal to "brothers around the world" contains a call to commit terror acts.

The man who shelled people in Kizlyar was a member of the "sleeping unit" of the "Islamic State" IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, sources have stated.

At the celebration of the "Maslenitsa" (Shrovetide) in Kizlyar, a 23-year-old local resident opened fire at the crowd, investigators report.

The action in support of gays of Chechnya was held by Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich, a painter, in London, by hanging for five hours wrapped in a carpet over the pavement near the Gazelli Art House Gallery.

The "Victoria" Charitable Foundation has presented the book "Dadivank: The Restored Miracle" of the history of the monastery of the same name and the frescoes restored in it.

The conclusion of the Baku City Prosecutor's Office, which failed to any crime elements in the death case of Mekhman Galandarov, an activist and blogger, at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), has not convince the rights defenders and lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The parents of a teen beaten up in the territory of a school in Makhachkala have complained about the absence of a proper reaction of school authorities and law enforcers to the incident.

Despite the changes in the legislation, the court did not soften the verdict to Mamed Ibragim, an adviser to the chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). The defence intends to challenge the decision pronounced by the court on February 16.

Astrakhan activist Igor Stenin has left Russia together with his wife and son for fear of pressure on his relatives from law enforcers.

The Astrakhan Regional Court has refused to grant the appeal of Mikhail Anisenko, who was fined by 10,000 roubles after participating in an action to pay tribute to the memory of the victims of political repressions.

Reserve officer Hayk Oganyan is involved as a suspect in the case of threats against Armenian caricaturists. He says his indignation was provoked by a caricature of a soldier with one foot.