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The Court for the Volgograd Region has dismissed a complaint filed by LGBT activists against the refusal of the Uryupinsk authorities to sanction a gay pride parade and two rallies in December 2017.

Residents of Dagestan will face trial in a case on theft of antiquarian articles, including sabres of the Shah of Persia, from the museum in the Dagestani village of Kubachi, the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia reports. The inflicted damage amounts to more than 8 million roubles.

The European Parliament has called on the Russian authorities to respect the rights of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and protect him from prosecution in the court and arbitrary arrest.

On February 7, a girl found in Iraq was brought by a plane to Grozny, the authorities of Chechnya report. The fate of her mother is unknown.

The damage from illegal transfers of land and real estate in Dagestan exceeds 143 million roubles, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia has stated.

Hayk Kalantaryan died as a result of a shot from the Azerbaijani side, reported the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh.

In Georgia, there were more than 20 passengers on the bus, which caught fire on a highway last night. People did not suffer.

On February 6, two brothers disappeared during construction work in the Kayakent District, their father reported. Villagers said they saw suspicious people nearby.

Unidentified vandals have desecrated the memorial in honour of the 18 fallen defenders of Abkhazia, the construction of which is being conducted in the swelling settlement of Algyt in the city of Gudauta.

Artyom Zdunov, who was appointed on February 7 the chair of the Dagestani government, has voiced a promise to return the businesses to the legal field and fight violations in the construction sphere. An attempt to sharply break the corruption in the system will result in serious conflicts and is unlikely to succeed, experts suggest.

The idea of the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov to build an international terminal at the "Magas" Airport has found support, after six years, at the Russia's Ministry of Transports. The Ingush authorities, who justified the need to build the terminal by the increasing number of people travelling abroad and the need for the republic's economic progress, has convinced the head of the Qatar Investment Agency to finance the project.

The Georgian MPs have adopted in the first reading a draft of legislative amendments that provide for the creation of the reserve service. The implementation of this initiative depends on the funding, military experts believe.

Users of social networks from Dagestan have supported the arrests of high-ranking officials, urging not to stop the fight against corruption after the presidential election in Russia. The Senators and MPs, who themselves occurred under attack due to staff cleansing, refused to support the former head of Dagestan.

The video posted on the YouTube by the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) shows houses of Dagestani high-ranking officials, where in the gardens vintage bird cages can be seen, and animal skins covering the rails. The video also shows the confiscation of golden pistols.

Dodo Gugeshashvili, a retired colonel, has been wounded in an armed attack in Tbilisi; her son was killed, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

A hunting rifle was found on February 6 next to the body of Khasan Evkurov. His relatives have stated an accident caused by careless handling the rifle.

The body of Alexander Korobeinikov with a gunshot wound was found today in Stavropol.

Ali Umarov, a resident of Makhachkala, whose kidnapping was claimed by his relatives, is at the police station, Magomedov, his advocate, has stated, adding that the whereabouts of Rasul Tatamgadjiev, an Umarov's friend, has not yet been established.

Relatives of nine residents of Ingushetia, sentenced to 5 to 19 years in prison within the case of the so-called "Ordjonikidze Jamaat", have treated the verdict as "lawlessness"; and the defence intends to appeal against it.

The investigation into the case on the murder of Eradil Asanov, a resident of Terekli-Mekteb, was resumed, but the law enforcer who shot and killed him was not brought to justice. This was declared by Eradil Asanov's relatives at a picket in Makhachkala.