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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and some of his subordinates have been included by Lithuania in the Magnitsky List of sanctions.

A woman who posted on YouTube video appeals to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and his mother is in danger. This opinion was voiced by natives of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondents.

Astrakhan activists Alexei Tyurin, Mikhail Anisenko, and Igor Stenin have held solo pickets in support of Maxim Panfilov, who was sentenced in the case of involvement in mass riots in Bolotnaya Square.

Police have killed the man who opened fire on them in Kaspiysk, a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has reported.

The video spread in social networks on behalf of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by a court decision, calling to kill Russian rights defenders, will help the authorities to reload responsibility for such killings on extremists and marginalized people, the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

Samson Kutateladze, a former high-ranking military and a Georgian MP, was found dead today in his office on the "Istanbul" marketplace in the city Rustavi.

Investigators refused to let a doctor to the arrested rights defender Oyub Titiev, who cannot eat any hard food without his dentures, his advocate Pyotr Zaikin and Oleg Orlov, a Board Member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", have stated.

According to organizers, the picket was 47 people strong. The miners demanded to allocate coal for heating their houses.

The Azerbaijani Centre for Protection of Political Prisoners (CPPP) has updated the list of political prisoners by adding three new convicts and eliminating one released.

A video entitled "Chief Assistant" was posted by video blogger Danila Poperechny on the YouTube on January 14. By 4:00 p.m. on January 15, it gained 921,745 pageviews and more than 111,000 likes against 3000 dislikes.

Activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) made photos within the fenced area in the forest near Gelendzhik. After that, they were exposed to beating. The photos taken by them and published today by the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper prove the construction of capital buildings that is underway inside the fenced territory.

Madina Alieva, who was found in Azerbaijan and who introduced herself as a 104-year-old Chechen woman, was placed to a social centre in the Chechen village of Alpatovo.

A group of believers held a rally in support of the Iranian leaders in front of the Embassy of Iran in Baku. Participants of the action held portraits of Ayatollah Khamenei in their hands and shouted slogans in support of the Iranian authorities.

During the week of January 8-14, 2018, no victims to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were registered. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Detention in Chechnya of the leader of the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"; guilty verdict to journalist Afghan Mukhtarly in Azerbaijan; death in Tbilisi of a man wounded in a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 8-14, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The European External Action Service (EEAS) has demanded to investigate the kidnapping and prosecution of Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly.

More than 90 artefacts of the Sarmatian culture, made of precious metals, are exhibited at the Volgograd Regional Museum of Local History. Many of those artefacts have never earlier been exhibited for public.

Over the past 24 hours, Armenian militaries have violated the ceasefire for 126 times by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The family of Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev, accused of drug dealing, has left Chechnya for security reasons, Pyotr Zaikin, Titiev's advocate has stated today.

On 11 January, the human rights organizations the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Human Rights Watch, the Amnesty International, the International Federation of Human Rights and the World Organization Against Torture issued a joint statement demanding from Russian authorities to release the rights defender Oyub Titiev.