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In the territory of Iraq, 18 women and about 30 children from Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and other regions of Russia were found in capture. In a letter to her mother, one of the captured women wrote that she was in fact in slavery with other women and children.

On January 30, a meeting of the Pardon Issues Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan was held in Baku.

On January 24, opera singer Giorgi Todua, a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre, gave a concert in his hometown of Gali. The singer made no political statements during the concert. Meanwhile, in his interview published two days after the performance, he says he does not recognize the independence of Abkhazia.

Alan Chekhoev, a resident of Alagir, has complained that his 19-year-old son Oleg was severely beaten after his detention.

After Ksenia Sobchak’s picket in defence of Oyub Titiev, held by her in Grozny, users of social networks, including well-known oppositionists, rights defenders and journalists, diverged about the reasons for the presidential candidate, and on whether her arrival in Grozny was a PR act.

Authorities are obliged to protect sexual minorities from manifestations of homophobia and investigate hate crimes, activists of the NGO “Movement for Equality” have stated.

An officer of a Grozny law enforcement unit has been killed by his subordinate from a Kalashnikov submachine gun, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed by a source from the military enlistment office.

128 residents from the Dagestani village of Vremenny have filed to the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala a complaint of officials' failure to pay compensation for the property damaged during a special operation, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.

Magomedsalam Magomedov, the former leader of Dagestan, Senator Suleiman Kerimov, and the presidential plenipotentiaries in the Southern Federal District (SFD) and the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) are included in the list of Russian officials and businessmen compiled by the US Department of Treasury in accordance with the new law on countering opponents of the country.

This morning, in Tbilisi, a part of the ceiling has collapsed at the "Varketili" metro station. Three victims were initially reported. Later, the number of victims grew up to 11, reported an ambulance doctor at the place. According to her, all the victims were taken to the hospital, the "Sputnik-Georgia" reports.

The minister for public education and the minister for land and property relations were removed from office because of their "extremely bad work," announced acting Dagestani leader Vladimir Vasiliev.

Veniamin Kondratiev, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, met persons involved in a school conflict in Sochi, as a result of which teacher Elena Nosova had been dismissed. The dismissed teacher and the school administration have agreed to conclude an amicable agreement, according to which the Elena Nosova's dismissal record would withdraw mentioning a dismissal under article and she would retract her claim to court.

The court session on changing the freedom restraint measure of Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev was held on January 29 at the Magas District Court.

The activists fined for their participation in the protest action named "Voters' Strike" on January 28 will appeal against their fines at the Volgograd Regional Court, in order to have the right afterwards to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), said Alexei Volkov, the coordinator of the local Alexei Navalny's office.

The "Classical" Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (CPFPA) has announced its participation in the upcoming presidential election. Its leader, the 60-year-old Mirmakhmud Miralioglu, was nominated as a candidate for presidency at the today's session of the Supreme Majlis of the party, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

A sanctioned picket of miners was held today near the "Antratsit" Culture Centre in the town of Gukovo. The action was attended by 47 people – the maximum allowed number of participants.

Today, the Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations (SCWRO) has reported that Azerbaijanis killed in Syria and Iraq fought on the side of radical groupings.

A protest of young people who demanded from Ksenia Sobchak to leave Chechnya after her picket in Grozny contradicted the laws of hospitality. This opinion was voiced by some of the residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has launched an investigation into the video with torture of a conscript soldier shown on TV.

Action "Voters' Strike" in Southern Russia; charges against the Mayor of Makhachkala; threats to rights defenders in Dagestan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 22-28, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".