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Ziyad Sabsabi, a Chechen member at the Russia's Federation Council, has brought a Dagestan boy, whose parents had perished in Iraq, from a Baghdad orphanage home. Akhmed Abdulaev, the boy's grandfather had urged the authorities to help to return his two grandsons, but the younger one was not found.

The Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine has not found any confirmation to the version stating that Georgian snipers were involved in shooting of protesters in Kiev in 2014. This was reported by the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office itself.

Military exercises with the use of 50 units of military equipment, including multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), took place at military training grounds in the Shatoi and Shali Districts of Chechnya.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for France has urged the parties to the Karabakh conflict to avoid statements that could increase tension in the region.

The court found a resident of the Apanasenkovsky District guilty of raping an 11-year-old daughter of his wife and sentenced him to 12 years and 4 months of imprisonment in a penal colony. This is reported by the website of the Investigating Department for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Akhmed Abdulaev, a resident of Dagestan, used social networks to disseminate his request to help return home his grandson after the death of his parents: a daughter of Akhmed Abdulaev and her husband. The boy was found in Iraq.

Alexei Navalny, an oppositional politician, has urged residents of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia to monitor the course of the presidential election and expose the deception with the traditionally high figures of voter turnout.

The Makhachkala police have found no explosive devices inside a school building, from which pupils have been evacuated today.

In Kizlyar, residents of the city and neighbouring regions came to the funeral ceremony to say farewell to the people who fell victim to an attack on believers near a city church.

The cases on posting Timur Mutsuraev's songs, recognized as extremist, in a social network have been transferred to courts, the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has stated.

Today, one man fell victim to a gas explosion that occurred in an apartment building in the village of Endireiaul; he died on the way to the hospital, the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health (MPH) has stated.

This morning, an explosion occurred in an apartment building in Yerevan. No one was injured, rescuers report.

The attack on believers in Kizlyar is investigated under the murder article, but investigators are considering all the versions of the incident, including a terror act.

Residents of Vladikavkaz, Alagir, Beslan, and Mozdok identified 10 public areas requiring improvement as part of the programme to create a comfortable urban environment. During the voting in March, residents will choose the entertainment places to be funded this year.

Church servants in the Shida Kartli region found a grenade among the icons, next to which was a note asking to forgive the sins.

The police are investigating the incident with women-activists of the "Apricot Country" at a sitting of the Yerevan Council of Elders that occurred on February 13.

The shooter at believers at the Kizlyar church was a "lone wolf", not directly linked with the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia, which has claimed responsibility for the attack, assert the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Earlier, the IS reported the attack of its supporters on law enforcers only.

Azerbaijani activists Tural Sadygly and Ordukhan Temirkhan, living in Europe, have reported detention of their relatives in Azerbaijan. Law enforcers have demanded to influence his son who is criticizing the authorities, said Sadygly's father.

Investment Forum in Sochi; law enforcers' CTO and shooting of holidaymakers in Dagestan; Saakashvili's deportation from Ukraine to Poland; celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Karabakh liberation movement, – read the review of these events in the Caucasus that happened during the week of February 12-18, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Lyudmila Scherbakova, Honoured Doctor of Dagestan, Vera Morgunova, Chair of the War Veteran Council for the Kizlyar District, appeared to be among the people who fell victims to an attack on believers which occurred in Kizlyar on February 18.