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Two CTOs in Dagestan; appointment of referendum date on draft new Constitution of Nagorno-Karabakh; UNM congress in Georgia after the split of the party; gatherings of Chechnya residents who decided to evict militants' families; detention in Spain of a resident of the Rostov Region on US suspicion of creating a computer virus; information about release under CER of Sergey Arakcheev, convicted for killing residents of Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 15-22, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On January 22, tenants of houses located near Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Sochi found that about 0.03 hectares of greenery was covered with concrete and a healthy half-century-old plane tree was felled. They treated the actions as "barbarism" and "crime".

During the week from January 16 to January 22, 2017, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, according to the available information, four persons perished; no wounded ones were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Within six days, activists of fundraising, who reacted to the call of Circassian activists to help to pay for the higher school education of Ragad Gish, a refugee from Syria, collected 70,000 roubles. The outcomes of the campaign indicate the continuity of the Adyg custom of mutual help, said Olga Efendieva-Begret, a co-founder of the NGO "Ochag" (Hearth).

Violations at Polling Station No. 1573 in the village of Endirey were reported by Eduard Ataev, the coordinator of the "Golos" (Vote) movement in Dagestan, and Vladimir Sevrinovsky, a member of the election commission with an advisory vote from the "Yabloko" Party. However, an investigator from the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) refused to open a criminal case, the "Kommersant" writes.

At the session of the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, which is dealing with the case of Abdusalam Ramazanov, a native of the Tsuntin District of Dagestan, accused of an attempt to join militants in Syria, Ramazanov's relatives and fellow villagers gave their evidence: they had not notice any his illegal activities.

The amendments made by the Cabinet of Ministers to the "Registration Rules of Grant Agreements" fail to eliminate legal restrictions on the activities of Azerbaijani NGOs, as well as obstacles in financing from independent sources. This was stated by members of the public association "Civil Society Platform" (CSP).

A flash mob is on in the Armenian segment of the Facebook in support of the detained blogger Alexander Lapshin, whom Belarus is going to extradite to Azerbaijan. The protesters state on their pages that they refuse to purchase Belarus-made goods.

Today, members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), supporters of communists, and activists of the public organization "Children of War" have laid flowers at the monument to Lenin in Kurortny Avenue in Sochi. The action participants drew attention to the social challenges that they face, and complained about their low pensions.

The two alleged militants, killed today in the village of Vperyod, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, last December took part in the attack on policemen, when two law enforcers were killed, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has stated.

The advocate Elchin Sadygov has released a statement of Rakhim Veliev, an activist of the "Nida" movement, who is under administrative arrest and who has complained about beating up and abused by policemen.

According to pre-identification, one of those killed in the house storming in the village of Vperyod, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, was a local resident Rashid Asulbekov. The second casualty has been pre-identified as Ruslan Magomedrasulov, a native of the Khasavyurt District.

Today, at 9:15 a.m., the village of Vperyod of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime. One of the houses in the village was surrounded by power agents who started a shootout with those in the house.

On January 17, Rashid Selderkhanov, who had been conditionally sentenced for inciting religiuos hatred, did not come home from the police station, where he was to check in, his relatives have reported.

Law enforcers have detained two men, suspected of robbing and stabbing a policeman in Moscow in July 2016.

The vote on the draft Constitution, which assumes the introduction of the presidential model of governing, will take place both in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and at its representative office in Yerevan.

The Charitable Fund "Tashir" has allocated 852,000 US dollars for payments to families, in which the fourth child was born in 2016.

The blogger Alexander Lapshin should be deported to Azerbaijan to hold accountable for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Belarus has decided.

Today, Azerbaijani residents are marking the 27th anniversary of the events of the so-called "Black January". On the mourning day for the victims of the invasion of Soviet troops in Baku on January 20, 1990, tens of thousands people came to the Alley of Martyrs (Shekhids) to pay tribute to the victims. Experts and eyewitnesses of the tragic events told about the situation of those days and accused the then Soviet leadership of the bloodshed.

Stanislav Lisov, a programmer from the city of Taganrog, who was arrested in Barcelona, is suspected of designing malicious software, the Spanish police has announced today.