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The Centre in Defence of Political Prisoners (CDPP) was established on January 27 on the basis of the working group earlier created by Leyla Yunus, the Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), the Public Alliance "Azerbaijan without Political Prisoners" and the Monitoring Centre of Political Prisoners.

At the discussion of the construction of the museum complex "Russia – My Story" in the Lenin Komsomol Park in Makhachkala, Zagra Magomedova, a Deputy of the District Assembly, sharply criticized the project.

The yard of No. 4 in Lenin Street in Derbent hosted a rally of tenants of the houses, included into the programme of resettlement from emergency and dilapidated houses. The rally was about 100 persons strong.

Users of the WhatsApp in Chechnya have spread a story of the nurse about serious complications in children after vaccination against poliomyelitis. Despite the refutation by the Republic's Ministry of Public Health, many parents continue refusing to vaccinate their children.

Citizens of South Ossetia have the right to stay close to the border with Georgia, having only a passport or a service ID on them.

The Azerbaijani National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the international Human Rights Watch (HRW) have condemned the authorities for the sentences to long prison terms passed to 18 figurants in the "Nardaran case", including the theologian Talekh Bagirzade and the oppositionist Fuad Gakhramanly

The documentary "It's Getting Dark" tells the story of five families recognized as political prisoners by rights defenders. Among the heroes is the family of Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus, who was convicted after organizing, against the order of the head of Chechnya, a conference on the deportation of the Chechen people.

The Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" has invited Makhachkala residents to an excursion in the Lenin Komsomol Park to draw their attention to the authorities' decision to build a museum there. Environmentalists and social network users agree that a wrong place was chosen for the museum.

At educational institutions of Chechnya, schoolgirls and female students must wear headscarves, even if they are not Muslims; however, there were no conflicts around the issue, said the interviewed residents of the republic.

The authorities of the regions, where wearing hijabs has long been practiced, should decide themselves whether to allow them in schools, said Evgeny Bobrov, the deputy chairman of the Human Rights Council (HRC), in his comment on the dispute of Minister Olga Vasilieva with Ramzan Kadyrov.

Residents of the settlement of Gumrak, Volgograd Region, have stated that their remarks were disregarded in the new version of reconstruction of Lenin Street. The designer said that the current version is not final and can be changed.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has fined the Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) "Sports Engineering" Company under the lawsuit lodged by the Ministry of Construction, Architecture and Territorial Development of the Rostov Region.

Magomed Aushev, a resident of the Ingush village of Surkhakhi, suspected of involvement in blowing up the car of Ibragim Belkharoev, a religious figure, was released upon the expiry of his detention, but six days later, he was taken into custody again at investigators' request. This was reported by his advocate Batyr Akhilgov.

The Dagestani lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was accused of using violence against and insulting policemen, went to court claiming compensation for material damage and moral harm, suffered by her because of illegal prosecution. She also demanded to oblige the prosecutor to bring her an official apology on behalf of the state.

On January 26, the power supply of the "Neptune" boarding house in Adler, which accommodates the so-called "Olympic resettlers" and victims of natural calamities, was stopped. Under frost, the tenants of the boarding house, including five small children, could not cook food and warm themselves up.

Since January 24, the family of Akhsan Nuruzade, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" cannot establish his whereabouts. Akhsan supported Talekh Bagirzade and other defendants in the "Nardaran case" and disappeared on the eve of the announcement of the court verdict.

The court session on the case of an attempt to create a caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has been postponed in order to allow the defence to prepare its objections to the petition of the public prosecutor, demanding to extend the defendants' custody.

The criminal case on embezzlement of funds of real estate investors of the Krasnodar housing company (HC) "Anit-City" has been filed against an unidentified employee of the company-developer. The real estate investors themselves treat the above as palliative. However, they made a decision not to renew yet their hunger strike.

In Chechnya, policemen are not subordinates of Ramzan Kadyrov, and his call to open fire on suspected militants without warning is not an order, but populist rhetoric. This opinion was voiced by advocate Igor Trunov.

The judicial board on case involving soldiers and officers under the Russian Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the appeal filed against the verdict to Imam Magomednabi Magomedov. This was reported by advocate Dagir Khasavov.