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The appeal of Ksenia Sobchak to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", makes no sense, since this is beyond the competence of the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

In Sochi, two hospital nurses were fired after they drove a patient into the street and left him there.

On January 25, 85 MPs of the Dagestani Parliament voted in support of the resolution to ban reporters of the US media recognized as foreign agents to attend meetings of the Parliament of Dagestan.

The positions of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan were shelled for 116 times over the past 24 hours.

A 30-year-old resident of the Cherek District illegally moved to Syria, where he joined a terrorist organization, investigators report.

Elena Nosova, a school teacher from Sochi, went to court and demanded to reinstate her in position. The teacher associates her dismissal with the fact that she posted on the Internet her video about poor condition of one of the classrooms in the school.

Washouts from the Oyub Titiev's hands were taken without an advocate and sealed in the absence of the rights defender himself, and law enforcers inclined him to self-incrimination during many hours, stated advocate Pyotr Zaikin in court. 

Participants of the action "All for One", held in front of the Georgian Parliament, demanded to liberalize drug policy and release the actor Giorgi Giorganashvili, sentenced for eight years on charges of illegal drug dealing.

The memorial to victims of the attack of Chechen militants led by Salman Raduev on Kizlyar was stained with mud, and vandals left a dead crow among the flowers.

The court in Chechnya has rejected an appeal complaint against the decision to arrest Oyub Titiev; and the rights defender has been left in custody.

Delegates have voted to ban reporters of the US editions recognized as foreign agents from attending meetings of the Duma for the Stavropol Territory.

Today, a rescue team has been sent to search for climbers on Elbrus Mount, who stopped answering calls.

Today, fighters from the Defence Army have stopped a break-through attempt of Azerbaijani spies, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

On January 24 and at night on January 25, the ceasefire regime was violated from the territories of both Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

An underground shock having magnitude of 2.2 points was recorded in the evening on January 24 in the Ararat Region of Armenia, 12 hours after the earthquake in the Shirak Region.

The organizers of the forum on the return of direct elections in Northern Caucasus have been notified that they will not be able to hold the event in Pyatigorsk on January 27. The forum will be held later in Moscow in a different format, the organizers – the Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations (RCCN) and the Interregional Public Organization "New World" – have decided.

The Makhachkala police have instituted a criminal case under article "deliberate destruction or damage of property" in connection with the arson of a car belonging to the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Dagestan.

When detained by border guards near the Psou River, a man claimed he fled from slavery in Abkhazia.

Policemen have drawn up a protocol on an administrative offense committed by the resident of North Ossetia, who, in their opinion, gave a cigarette to the child, the North-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has pronounced a guilty verdict to a resident of Rostov-on-Don who was detained at the airport on the way to militants in Afghanistan.