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Rustam Kuchmenov, a resident of Nalchik, who complained of torture from law enforcers, needs an expensive surgery on his damaged spine, but cannot go for medical treatment because of recognizance not to leave. Rustam Kuchmenov was not afraid to point to the law enforcers who were torturing him and therefore he needs state protection, the Committee Against Torture has stated.

In the centre of Krasnodar, law enforcers have detained Yana Antonova, an activist, with two posters, when she was about to hold a solo picket in memory of Boris Nemtsov, who was killed three years ago.

An elderly man has died in the Aksay District of the Rostov Region after being attacked by a pack of stray dogs, his relatives have reported.

Tigran Grigoryan, Artyom Beglaryan and Grigory Achkasov have appealed to rights defenders with a complaint of torture, under which Anapa law enforcers forced them to sign acknowledgements of guilt.

In Elista, Valery Badmaev, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Modern Kalmykia", and freelance journalist Vitaly Kadaev held solo pickets on the anniversary of politician Boris Nemtsov's murder.

Today, Ilham Aliev, the incumbent President of Azerbaijan, has been registered as a presidential candidate. The decision on registration has been unanimously made by members of the Central Election Commission (CEC).

The verdict to Faig Amirov, the financial director of the opposition newspaper "Azadlig", who is serving his conditional sentence, will be challenged at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the defence reports.

Tonight, a fire has started at the shopping centre "Tergi-1". It was located on an area of at least 3000 square meters. No one was injured.

In Dagestan, over 500,000 tons of fuels and lubricants are in the "shadow" turnover and no taxes are paid for them, reported Khizri Shikhsaidov, Speaker of the Dagestani Parliament.

Residents of a house in Gyumri, where floors collapsed at night on February 23, still stay in their apartments. According to a woman who lives in the house, living conditions in tin shelters offered by the authorities are worse than in the dilapidated building.

The criminal proceedings against Samvel Babayan, the former Nagorno-Karabakh Minister of Defence, sentenced to six years of imprisonment for illegal import of a man-portable air defence system (MANPADS) "Igla" to Armenia, may be a revenge of the authorities for his participation in the formation of the opposition bloc, since he is considered as a serious political figure. This opinion was voiced by political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow has ruled to arrest Imran Tsugiev, a native of Kalmykia, and Suleiman Maltsagov, a native of Chechnya.

The crimes like the seizure of Khojaly and massacre of its residents should never go unpunished, participants of the commemoration action for the victims of the Khojaly tragedy held in Baku have stated.

Yerevan-based public organizations and activists have appealed to Mayoralties of Volgograd, Stavropol, Rostov-on-Don and other 19 cities urging them to suspend or terminate their twinning agreements with Yerevan because of the use of force against women-activists of the "Apricot Country" at a sitting of the City Council of Elders.

At today's picket in Gukovo, miners told about the large coal consumption for heating houses in severe frost. They turned to the Rostov-on-Don office of the presidential candidate Vladimir Putin for help in providing them with the so-called "ration coal".

None of the five law enforcers indicated by the resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) as his torturers, has not been dismissed, the Committee against Torture (CAT) has stated today.

The register of prohibited materials excludes the pages of the Alexei Navalny's website about vacations of a top-ranking official on an oligarch's yacht, the publication of which was considered by the Kuban court as a reason for blocking the website.

During the week of February 19-25, 2018, no one fell victim to 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 25, the EU announced that the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) stood ready to support Georgia in the investigation into the circumstances of the death of a Georgian citizen detained in South Ossetia.

Mourning events to mark the anniversary of the deportation of Chechen and Ingush people; determination of the main candidate for the post of the Armenian President; AI's criticism of human rights situation in Russia and the countries of Southern Caucasus, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 19-25, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".