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Maxim Kolomeitsev, a resident of Sochi, has reported why he had to return his ticket for a flight with a "Saratov Airlines" airplane several days before a crash.

During the week of February 5-11, 2018, two persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

A Ukrainian court has ruled to arrest Ali Bakaev, a native of Chechnya, suspected in Russia of organizing an attack on a "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) unit.

The two men killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) held in Ingushetia have been identified as Abdulla Askhabov and Yunus Ibadiev, natives of Dagestan.

393 military policemen have returned to Chechnya after 1.5 years of service in Syrian Aleppo, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

On February 9 and 10, the State Concert Hall in Nalchik hosted the International Documentary Film Festival "We are in the Big World. Stories from Life", organized by the Independent Film Promotion Foundation "Projector of Live Stories".

Mikhail Saakashvili, a former Georgian President, said that the State Migration Service (SMS) of Ukraine had signed a package of documents on his deportation to Poland.

In Dagestan, the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has revealed hundreds of corruption-related violations and dozens of concealed crimes, Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Russia's General Public Prosecutor, has stated. After the liquidation of the armed underground, the war on corruption is a new priority for Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev, the acting head of the republic, has announced.

A man got acquainted with a girl in a social network; then met and raped her.

The Dagestani anti-corruption campaign will be only fruitful, if the cadre cleansings break the existing system. Its results could be assessed after the real socio-economic statistics is published, economists believe.

Residents of Dagestani villages of Akhty and Fiy have gathered near the police station, demanding to give out the killer of Bairam Omarov, a 19-year-old local resident. Law enforcers, who had declared Omarov the initiator of his own kidnapping, have reported the suppression of the unrests.

Today, Yuri Chaika, General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, has arrived in Dagestan. He has instructed his subordinates to check the legality of the construction of local officials' houses and to control their expenses, distribution of subsidies and process of land allocation.

One of two persons killed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) carried out in the Nazran District was wanted in the case of involvement in combat actions in Syria.

Gulya Karakhanova has held solo pickets in front of the Derbent police station, the City Prosecutor's Office and the district administration. The woman demands to find her son who disappeared in May 2015.

In the course of a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Ingushetia, law enforcers have killed two men, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

Circus artists went out to protest at the Georgian Ministry of Education. They complained about the lack of work and demanded that the ban on paid performances in schools be lifted.

The authorities ordered residents of 37 private houses in Kurchaloi to leave their houses within a week. Among them, there is the house of the family of the arrested rights defender Oyub Titiev; they will demolish the houses in order to build a shopping centre instead, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has stated.

The European Parliament (EP) treats falsifications in the case of Oyub Titiev as obvious, and his prosecution – as another link in the chain of human rights violations committed in Chechnya and throughout Russia, rights defenders Oleg Orlov and Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya have stressed.

The early return of the journalist Afgan Mukhtarly into custody is associated by his defence with his interviews, in which he accused the authorities of Azerbaijan and Georgia of his kidnapping.

Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili used Facebook to announce that a group of armed people tried to detain him when he held a meeting at a hotel in Kiev. The law enforcement bodies and the State Border Service of Ukraine rejected their involvement in the attempted detention of Mikhail Saakashvili.