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Suleiman Kerimov, a Senator from Dagestan, has unsuccessfully invested up to 200 million US dollars into the Snapchat messenger, the Bell Company reports citing top managers of investment funds and businessman's acquaintances.

Natives of Northern Caucasus would arouse confidence in residents of Syria, both as Russian militaries, and as Sunnis, Vladimir Putin suggested at his press conference.

In the Tarumovka, Kizlyar and Lak Districts of Dagestan, shooting of wolves is underway after mass complaints of farmers.

The publication of a video with a young woman dancing in a hijab has provoked sharp critical posts of social network users.

In Saint Petersburg, the court has awarded a local woman with compensation for damage in the amount of 50,000 roubles. Her apartment was damaged during a special operation to detain militants from Kabardino-Balkaria. The plaintiff asked to pay her 325,967 roubles.

The number of foreign tourists who have visited the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) in 2017 went up by 40% against 2016, making over 20,000.

The practice of public apologies that has spread in Russia has nothing to do with Caucasian and Islamic traditions, rights defenders Tatiana Lokshina and Vadim Mukhanov have stated. According to their version, young people of the Caucasus are using it because of the Chechen authorities' impunity for humiliating residents of the region.

Pavel Ardzinba, suspected of an assassination attempt on the former Abkhazian President Alexander Ankvab, was killed assassinated in the Sukhumi-Psou Highway. His acquaintance Dmitry Khagba was shot dead together with him, the Abkhaz Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The man was hospitalized after a shootout in the centre of the capital of Georgia.

The Grozny "Akhmat" FC has been fined for use of loudspeakers during a football match between its team and the team of the "Zenith" FC, reported Arthur Grigoryanets, the chairman of the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union.

Mikhail Saakashvili has stated he will not take part in the trials against him in Georgia and rejected his advocates, David Kakoishvili, one of them, said today.

In Chechnya, two women and three children were hospitalized after a gas explosion which occurred in a private house in the Gudermes District.

The special operation was held in a quiet area near the city centre and became a surprise, reported interviewed experts and residents of Stavropol. City residents noted that the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime did not provoked them to fear.

At a meeting of the Armenian Parliament, 75 out of 95 MPs voted for adoption of the law to struggle family violence.

At trial, a friend of defendants has confirmed that one of the reasons for the attack on Vladislav Ryazantsev in Rostov-on-Don was in his activities as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent where critical publications about "Russian nationalists" were posted. According to the testimony of the witness, the beating of the journalist was planned.

Victoria Budaikhanova, a native of Dagestan, detained after her return to Russia with a child, has left her second child in Syria .This was reported by her advocate Sapiyat Magomedova.

Producers of the "Comedy Woman" show hurried up to bring apologies for a joke about an Ingush woman from escort service, and the blocking for the office of the "TNT" TV Channel with a demand to apologize proves that the Kremlin lost the monopoly on violence, claimed Russian journalists and rights defenders.

In Krasnodar, law enforcers have kidnapped Mikail Mataev, a resident of Khasavyurt, forced him to slander himself, and then arrested him for 15 days, his father Abdulvagab Mataev has reported.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision to pay 73,649 US dollars to the complainants in the case "Chyragov and Others vs. Armenia", who lost their housing during the Karabakh conflict.

The absence of mass protests in Azerbaijan after the US has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is connected with the policy of Baku, forced to manoeuvre between the Muslim world and the arms supply partnership. This opinion was expressed by political analysts and journalists questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".