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The court has fined two townspeople for participating in the rally in support of nominating Alexei Navalny as a presidential candidate.

Maria Lasitskene, a track-and-field athlete from Kabardino-Balkaria, has won the Dyachkov-Ozolin memorial tournament by having conquered 2.01 meters, setting the best result of the 2017-2018 winter season.

Today, Armenian MPs have adopted amendments to the law that provide for controlling the age of gamblers, restricting the casino gambling and increasing the fines.

The attack on the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Ingushetia has become a result of impunity of the people involved in human rights violations committed in Chechnya, rights defenders interviewed by the 'Caucasian Knot' believe.

This morning, in Rostov-on-Don, a burst of gas with subsequent inflammation occurred on the fifth floor of a ten-story house. As a result, one person was killed. Fire-fighters evacuated 50 tenants of the house and extinguished the fire.

Magomed-Ali and Magomed-Sidik Mezhidov brothers, detained in Chechnya in the course of the anti-drug campaign, have filed a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office about torture, which forced them to defame themselves.

An attack on the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Ingushetia and the pressure on the "Memorial" office in Chechnya are connected, believes Oleg Orlov, a member of the board for the HRC "Memorial".

Last night, a fire broke out in the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" on the second floor of a two-storey building in Nazran. PCs and furniture were destroyed by the fire, while no people were injured.

For more than a week, the fate of Aminat Avturkhanova, who was looking for her husband, whose name appeared on the lists of the people executed in Chechnya at night on January 26, 2017, is unknown, the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reports today.

Investigators have granted a motion to grant state protection for Andrei Rudomakha, a coordinator of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), who received anonymous threats after he had been beaten in Krasnodar. This was reported by his advocate. The activist himself claimed he felt bad.

Marik Dudaev, a resident of South Ossetia, released from detention in Georgia in 2013, was shot dead in his native village of Artsev.

Today, the Armenian Parliament has approved the draft statement "On condemnation of the Yazidi genocide on the territory controlled by terrorist groupings in Iraq in 2014", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports with reference to the online broadcast of the meeting on the Armenian Parliament's website.

Alexei Omaev, who was shot dead by law enforcers in Kaspiysk, could not attack policemen as he was partially paralyzed, his relatives told the "Caucasian Knot".

In his appeal to President Putin and the chiefs of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the Russian FSB, rights defender Oyub Titiev, arrested in Chechnya, has claimed a fabrication of the criminal case against him and forgery of evidence.

Alexei Omaev, killed in Kaspiysk, was suspected of acting as a militant intermediary and recruiting young people for the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia by the court. This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies.

Investigators are studying the circumstances of the death of the serviceman Arutyun Khachatryan, who was mortally wounded this night, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has reported.

In the evening on January 15, a resident of Ingushetia was killed in the village of Plievo. The murder could be motivated by revenge of relatives of a policeman killed as a result of a domestic conflict in Magas in 2016, a source in the security forces said.

The authorities of Chechnya have reported the delivery of keys from a new house to 104-year-old Madina Alieva, who was found in Azerbaijan. Local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have suggested that the Chechen authorities use the story of the elderly woman for self-promotion.

Zaza Bibilashvili, one of the leaders of the opposition "United National Movement" (UNM), has filed an appeal to the administration of the Georgian President with the demand to make public the expenses of the State Security Service for the period for which former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is accused of embezzlement.

Residents of Armenia have complained about the rise in prices for many goods. The opposition bloc "Elk" has urged citizens to go to protest against the growth of prices.