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A group of 70 Azerbaijani soldiers and officers sent to Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan has increased the number of its peacekeepers in Afghanistan from 94 to 120 soldiers and officers.

Today, in Chechnya, law enforcers have detained Oyub Titiev, the chief of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". His whereabouts is unknown, reported Oleg Orlov, a member of the Board for the HRC "Memorial".

Residents of Ingushetia, who return from the Middle East, will be able to start a peaceful life at home. This has been announced by Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov. He has treated the decision to send Sunni policemen from the Caucasus to Syria as "hitting the spot."

Five months after disappearance of Zelimkhan Bakaev, an artist from Chechnya, investigators did not shed light on his fate. His mobile phone number was re-registered to a resident of Moscow, and someone replaced his WhatsApp avatar with a photo of the Grozny mosque, reported relatives and colleagues of Zelimkhan Bakaev.

In Grozny, the New Year tree celebrations gathered more tourists than local residents, city residents reported.

At users' requests, the Instagram administration has blocked a page of a young woman who danced in hijab.

On January 8-9, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire regime 118 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijani reported.

While playing at home with a traumatic pistol, a ten-year-old boy shot and killed his seven-year-old brother.

Khamzat Khazbiev, the father of Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, suffered a heart attack after a grenade exploded in a yard of his house. Khamzat Khazbiev was diagnosed with fourth degree of cancer.

German doctors did not refuse to accept Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was wounded during a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge, for medical treatment. However, the Georgian authorities offer lower-level clinics, relatives and advocate of the young man report.

On the video, a man who introduced himself as Vladimir Oleinikov from Dagestan reported after his detention in Syria that he was engaged in provision of medical treatment for militants of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia.

In the village of Avtury in the Shali District, law enforcers have detained all the men from the family of Khamzat Baimuradov, suspected of killing the chief of the police station and shot dead during his detention on January 3. This has been reported by fellow villagers of Khamzat Baimuradov.

Soldier Vache Chilingaryan got a fatal wound as a result of a shot from the Azerbaijani side, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

Celebration of the New Year and Christmas; verdict of guilty to Mikhail Saakashvili in Georgia; attack on a policeman in Chechnya and murder of suspected killer; unrest in Abkhazia after extradition to Georgia of prisoner Giorgi Lukava, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 1-7, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of January 1-7, 2018, at least three persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan has scheduled an inspection to be conducted after a detained resident of Makhachkala had died in the ROVD (District Interior Division) for the Sovietsky District.

78 out of 119 soldiers and officers of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, deceased in 2017, are non-combat casualties. The rest were killed in connection with violation of the ceasefire, the Caspian Defence Studies Institute (CDSI) reported.

The mosque for Muslim-servicemen built on the territory of the motorized rifle division of the Southern Military District in Chechnya can house more than 50 believers.

At night on January 7, Christmas services were held in Orthodox churches of Baku, Ganja, Sumgait and Khachmaz.