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According to the power agency of the Iraqi Kurds, as a result of the military operation in Mosul, over 30 militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia, were killed including Abu Bakr al-Shishani, a native of Chechnya.

A senior Ingush policeman, arrested on suspicion of abusing a detainee, has threatened members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC). Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the human rights organization "Mashr", has appealed to the investigating authorities with a request to investigate the incident.

Sending militaries from Ingushetia to Syria; mass detention of Azerbaijani migrants in Derbent and visit of Russia's CEC head to Makhachkala; a major fire in Krasnodar multi-storey building; removal of erotic movie "Fifty Shades Darker" from screening in Vladikavkaz; nomination of lists of candidates by political forces in Armenia for the upcoming parliamentary elections, – see a review of major events in the Caucasus on February 13-19, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week from February 13 to February 19, 2017, no victims were reported of 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.

On February 19, Sochi court marshal Andrei Zorinovsky, warned Tatiana Dyakova and Fyodor Dyakov, parents of three minor children, of eviction of their family members from the apartment until February 28. Meanwhile, the court marshal has ignored the claim of the Dyakov spouses that the family includes an infant and a child with disabilities.

Georgy Mamaladze, suspected of an assassination attempt on Ilia II, had no ambitions to claim for the patriarchal throne. This opinion was voiced by Georgian theologians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They treat the investigators' version as doubtful.

In his motion on pardon to President Ilham Aliev, journalist Arshad Ibragimov has noted that he has already served half of his sentence at a penal colony and that he was an internally displaced person (IDP) from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Law enforcers tortured Ruslan Tagibekov, a native of Dagestan, suspected of illicit trafficking in weapons. This was claimed by his defence. On February 18, Ruslan Tagibekov was formally charged.

The freelance journalists Aiten Ferkhadova and Ainura Geidarova have lodged a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in connection with the ban on leaving Azerbaijan imposed on them. The ban is caused by the inquiry into the criminal case against the edition “Meydan.TV”, their advocate has explained.

The public organization "Congress of Karachay People" has criticized the movie "Fifty Shades Darker" and demanded from the authorities of the Karachay-CherkessianRepublic (KChR) to ban the film in the republic.

In Yerevan, over a hundred persons have demanded the release Arthur Sargsyan, accused of helping members of the "Sasna Tsrer" detachment, whose state of health has sharply deteriorated on the tenth day of his hunger strike.

The list, presented by a group of rights defenders to the Commission on Pardoning under the Azerbaijani President, includes, first of all, prisoners with serious health problems, persons, on whom there are decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ECtHR, and the "prisoners of conscience", recognized as such by the Amnesty International (AI).

Lernik Osyan, a soldier of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), received a fatal gunshot wound today in the conflict zone under unclear circumstances, the NKR’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

A son and a nephew of Vardan Oskanyan, the former Foreign Minister of Armenia, have kidnapped a man and threatened to kill him, investigators assert.

The “Universal Pictures International” Company incurs losses because of the decision to ban screening of the film in Vladikavkaz, said the Company’s Russian representative office.

The International Association of Islamic Business (IAIB), set up in Moscow, has stated preparation for opening its offices in Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia for the development of halal businesses.

The "Rustavi-2" TV Channel of Georgia has switched over to protest broadcasting, claiming the injustice in the country. The Channels urges its spectators to support it.

The lists of political parties and blocs, which have declared their participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections, include 1539 candidates, Tigran Mukuchyan, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Armenia said on February 17 at a press conference, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Workers of the “Zamchalovsky Anthracite", one of the companies of the "Kingcoal" group, said at the picket in Gukovo that they have received no wage debts from the start of the year. According to the protesters, should the authorities fail to resume payments, they will begin a mass hunger strike.

Suspicions of bribe-giving have been lifted from Alexei Volchenko, the leader of the movement "Polite Farmers”. Now, he is a witness in a new criminal case, this time initiated against the alleged intermediary of a bribe transfer, said Volchenko and his advocate.