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The man, who opened fire at a police station in Grozny, pretended to be unconscious and took advantage of carelessness of law enforcers. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies. According to him, one of the policemen was seriously wounded.

In 2016, 19 local residents left for Syria to join terrorist organizations. In total, more than 600 residents of Chechnya can stay in Syria now. Of them, more than 340 people are put on the international wanted list. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Soldiers of the military police battalion, sent in December 2016 to Syria from Chechnya, will stay there till March. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

Tatiana Lebedeva, a field-and-track athlete, who is now a senator from the Volgograd Region, will go to court to challenge the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to deprive her of her two silver medals won at the 2008 Olympic Games.

On January 25, the "Regional Development Corporation" allocated the amount of 5.8 million roubles to pay debt to Rostov miners. This was reported by the government of the Rostov Region. The money was transferred to repay wage arrears to workers of "Coal Company 'Almaznaya'" for August 2015, reports the website of the government of the Rostov Region.

Tenants of the "Neptune" vacation hotel, which rooms are allocated to Olympic settlers and people affected by natural disasters, have been warned about power supply switch off. Officials use this way in an attempt to evict people from the manoeuvrable fund housing.

A group of Azerbaijani activists have appealed to bodies of the Council of Europe (CE) with a call for help to solve the problem of political prisoners. The activists have claimed the need for restoration of the post of the PACE special rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

Anatoly Bibilov has promised his party members to seek the reunification of Ossetia and to fight against corruption.

Chechen soldiers who stay in Syria do not obey to orders of Ramzan Kadyrov. This was stated by Pavel Felgenhauer, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". Alexei Malashenko, a member of the Scientific Council of the Moscow Carnegie Centre, has doubted the information that Ramzan Kadyrov every day receives reports from Syria.

When moving to Russia, Circassians, who are citizens of Syria, face difficulties with finding jobs and accommodations, since they do not fall under the status of compatriots. This opinion was voiced by activists questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

The "Public Verdict" Foundation has included the case against Sochi builder Mardiros Demerchyan, accused of false denunciation for his report of torture at police, in the list of trials, proving that Russia has not solved the problem of torture and failed to observe the UN recommendations issued in 2012.

In Baku, the court has sentenced Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the movement "Muslim Unity", and his deputy Abbas Guseinov, accused in the case of the riots in the Azerbaijani village of Nardaran, to 20 years of imprisonment. Other 17 defendants were sentenced to 10-20 years of imprisonment.

On January 24, at a meeting of the board for the Chechen Republic of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) held in Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov claimed the need to shoot without warning to avoid casualties among law enforcers. He also called on "to handle without gloves those whom they misled."

The health status of Khamzat Chumakov, Imam of the Nasyr-Kort mosque, has stabilized; however, he needs further medical treatment in a specialized clinic. This was reported by a brother of the Imam.

The Krasnodar Regional Court has dismissed the appeal field against the arrest of Alexei Knedlyakovsky, who was sentenced after he posted in social networks a photo of a monument to Dzerzhinsky with a Catholic cross attached it.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has appealed to Yuri Chaika, General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, with a request to check the refusal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to recognize Syrian Circassians as compatriots abroad.

According to relatives of the young people detained in the capital of Chechnya in December 2016 after the attacks on law enforcers, they still cannot get information about the detainees' whereabouts. Meanwhile, the detainees' relatives claim that they themselves have to go into hiding for fear of blood feud from family members of the killed policemen.

Magomed Magomedov, a journalist, and Shamil Khadulaev, a member of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, see only a technical point in the cancellation of a meeting of the Buynaksk City Council to discuss the issue of resignation of Mayor Zacharya Amirov.

Provision of mandates to national minorities will not solve their problems. This opinion was voiced by Armenian political analysts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot". Members of the largest ethnic communities of Armenia welcomed the provision of quotas in the parliament to minorities.

At the trial in the case on an attempt to create a caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the mother and aunt of defendant Islam Shogenov claimed that law enforcers searched the defendant's apartment during more than an hour in absence of witnesses.