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On January 17, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan held a session to consider the appeal filed by the Prosecutor's Office against the acquittal pronounced by the Lenin District Court of Makhachkala to Ziyavudin Abdulkhalikov, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE), has called on the Russian authorities to conduct a thorough investigation of the arson in the Nazran office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The body of Magomed Mamatov, a resident of Ingushetia, was found in North Ossetia. The man disappeared in last August, a source has reported.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, who met officials of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" after the fire in the HRC's office in Nazran, promised rights defenders "all possible assistance of law enforcement bodies in investigating the arson," but offered no personal help, Timur Akiev, the head of the Ingush representative office of the HRC "Memorial", has stated.

The court has fined two townspeople for participating in the rally in support of nominating Alexei Navalny as a presidential candidate.

Maria Lasitskene, a track-and-field athlete from Kabardino-Balkaria, has won the Dyachkov-Ozolin memorial tournament by having conquered 2.01 meters, setting the best result of the 2017-2018 winter season.

Today, Armenian MPs have adopted amendments to the law that provide for controlling the age of gamblers, restricting the casino gambling and increasing the fines.

The attack on the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Ingushetia has become a result of impunity of the people involved in human rights violations committed in Chechnya, rights defenders interviewed by the 'Caucasian Knot' believe.

This morning, in Rostov-on-Don, a burst of gas with subsequent inflammation occurred on the fifth floor of a ten-story house. As a result, one person was killed. Fire-fighters evacuated 50 tenants of the house and extinguished the fire.

Magomed-Ali and Magomed-Sidik Mezhidov brothers, detained in Chechnya in the course of the anti-drug campaign, have filed a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office about torture, which forced them to defame themselves.

An attack on the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Ingushetia and the pressure on the "Memorial" office in Chechnya are connected, believes Oleg Orlov, a member of the board for the HRC "Memorial".

Last night, a fire broke out in the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" on the second floor of a two-storey building in Nazran. PCs and furniture were destroyed by the fire, while no people were injured.

For more than a week, the fate of Aminat Avturkhanova, who was looking for her husband, whose name appeared on the lists of the people executed in Chechnya at night on January 26, 2017, is unknown, the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reports today.

Investigators have granted a motion to grant state protection for Andrei Rudomakha, a coordinator of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), who received anonymous threats after he had been beaten in Krasnodar. This was reported by his advocate. The activist himself claimed he felt bad.

Marik Dudaev, a resident of South Ossetia, released from detention in Georgia in 2013, was shot dead in his native village of Artsev.

Today, the Armenian Parliament has approved the draft statement "On condemnation of the Yazidi genocide on the territory controlled by terrorist groupings in Iraq in 2014", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports with reference to the online broadcast of the meeting on the Armenian Parliament's website.

Alexei Omaev, who was shot dead by law enforcers in Kaspiysk, could not attack policemen as he was partially paralyzed, his relatives told the "Caucasian Knot".

In his appeal to President Putin and the chiefs of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the Russian FSB, rights defender Oyub Titiev, arrested in Chechnya, has claimed a fabrication of the criminal case against him and forgery of evidence.

Alexei Omaev, killed in Kaspiysk, was suspected of acting as a militant intermediary and recruiting young people for the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia by the court. This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies.

Investigators are studying the circumstances of the death of the serviceman Arutyun Khachatryan, who was mortally wounded this night, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has reported.