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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.

At a protest action, about 20 women, whose sons disappeared in Dagestan, demanded a meeting with acting Dagestani leader Vladimir Vasiliev and Alexander Bastrykin, the chair of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Ilham Aliev has called on Azerbaijanis to return to their historical lands, including Yerevan.

Law enforcers seized documents from the Ingush branch of the Russian Social Insurance Fund, reports a source of the news agency "Interfax-South".

In Makhachkala, at a press conference held at the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", women described detentions of their sons suspected of illegal possession of weapons and involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs). According to the mothers, the cases against the young people are fabricated, and they confessed to the crimes under torture.

Boxer Murat Gassiev has every chance of winning a hard match with an experienced rival, stated Alexei Vasiliev, the director of the "Ural Boxing Promotion". Murat Gassiev himself intends to compete in heavyweight category after a fight with Alexander Usik.

Policemen refused to accept an application about the disappearance of Magomedtagir Gadjiev, a resident of the Dagestani village of Gubden, until he was brought to one of law enforcement facilities, his relatives have stated.

Ismail and Mukhtar Kurbanov, who on February 6 disappeared in the Kayakent District of Dagestan, were found at the ROVD (District Interior Division) for the Soviet District of Makhachkala. According to a member of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) for Dagestan, the brothers were suspected of illegal possession of weapons.

The European Union has allocated a grant in the amount of 506,634 euros to Tbilisi for support local entrepreneurs.

The Court for the Volgograd Region has dismissed a complaint filed by LGBT activists against the refusal of the Uryupinsk authorities to sanction a gay pride parade and two rallies in December 2017.

Residents of Dagestan will face trial in a case on theft of antiquarian articles, including sabres of the Shah of Persia, from the museum in the Dagestani village of Kubachi, the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia reports. The inflicted damage amounts to more than 8 million roubles.

The European Parliament has called on the Russian authorities to respect the rights of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and protect him from prosecution in the court and arbitrary arrest.