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Today, a group of forced migrants from Chechnya has held a picket outside the State Duma in Moscow, complaining about Ingush officials because of problems with obtaining housing. The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, accused the picketers of trying to "swing the situation", saying that Ingush authorities are trying to solve their problems.

The Israeli parliament has rejected the legislative initiative of the MP, who offered to recognize the Armenian Genocide and reminded about the Holocaust.

The protests of Yerevan townspeople and the action of the "Apricot Country" Party in the Council of Elders have forced the city bosses to start repairing the sewage system of the Nubarashen Prison.

Today, Vladimir Vasiliev has supported the proposal of Artyom Zdunov, the Prime Minister of Dagestan, to reduce the republic's government.

Today, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has approved nomination of the incumbent President Ilham Aliev, Fuad Aliev, the Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, and three self-nominees as presidential candidates.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has asked Russia to investigate the disappearance of Khusein Badurgov and Khadizhat Elimkhanova in Chechnya in 2012 and 2013, the Committee against Torture (CAT) has stated today.

Lawyers of the Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund (ACF) have appealed against the decision of the Ust-Labinsk District Court to block the ACF's anti-corruption investigation, telling about an influential official spending his holiday on a yacht with an oligarch and prostitutes.

The repair of the Varketili metro station before the ceiling collapsed there was carried out with violations, Kakha Kaladze, the Tbilisi Mayor has stated, suggesting firing the employees, who had accepted the project.

In Dagestan, investigators have completed an investigation into the criminal case against Zalkip Aliskantov, a 39-year-old resident of the Tlaratin District. According to the investigators, he was one of the accomplices in the kidnapping of Ibragim Kazibekov, Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing.

Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity" movement, who is serving his 20-year term for the riots in Nardaran, was sentenced to additional five months on charges of keeping prohibited items in his prison cell.

In Stepanakert, activists organize a march and a rally on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Karabakh liberation movement.

An action against violence applied to women was a response to a brawl that occurred in the sitting hall of the Yerevan Council of Elders and a statement made by activists of the "Apricot Country" Party about the violence used by men against them.

At today's session of the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala, Zagidat Abakarova gave testimony, in which she stated that she had not participated in any warfare, and had not held any weapons in her hands.

At today's sitting of the Council of Elders of Yerevan, activists of the "Apricot Country" brought cans with samples of sewage water taken from an open area near Nubarashen Prison, but were physically abused in the brawl with their colleagues.

Investigators have refused to institute criminal proceedings after a release of a video showing the beating of teenagers in Chechnya and referred to the absence of the event of a crime, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reported.

Kurchaloi is not the first settlement in Chechnya, where people are being evicted from the centre because of reconstruction, reported an official of the district administration. He refused to mention the dates for the start of construction of new houses for them. Local residents complained about the inconvenience in connection with the forced relocation to their relatives' places. 

The verdict pronounced against Sardar Babaev, sentenced to three years of imprisonment for violating the requirements of religious ceremonies, will be appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the theologian's defence has reported.

After a counterterrorist operation (CTO) was carried out in the Nazran District, Yunus-Bek Evkurov instructed his subordinates to toughen inspections of the municipalities, as well as passengers arriving in the region and their luggage. Accomplices of the suspects killed in the special operation are promised leniency in case if they voluntarily surrender to the police, the press service of the Ingush leader reports.

Today, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has announced that Oyub Titiev is being prosecuted because of his human rights activities and demanded to release him.

On February 12, the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre (EMDSC) released its statement in connection with the fact that the early presidential election were scheduled for April 11, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.