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About 25 residents of Sochi have come today to Vereschagin Bridge, where the 36-year-old Nadezhda Degteryova perished nine days ago. They expressed their condolences to the mother of the deceased, and promised to support the elderly woman and demand from law enforcers to punish those guilty of her daughter’s death.

The complaint against the administrative arrest of the journalist Rovshan Mamedli has been rejected by the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA); however, no proofs of his guilt, except for testimonies of the policemen, who had detained him, were presented, said the Mamedli’s advocate, adding that the defence intends to complain to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Two women-residents of Georgia, who were detained on January 27, have been released from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Tskhinvali after they paid the fine of 2000 roubles each, the State Security Service (SSS) of Georgia has reported.

The Vienna police are interrogating the 22 natives of Chechnya detained yesterday, who, according to law enforcers, had firearms on them.

During the inspection of the documents of Yusup Bartykhanov, Assistant to the Mayor of Buynaksk, law enforcers detained him and took him away with them. This was reported by Marat Djankhaev, a deputy of the City Council.

In Chechnya, law enforcers detained Anzor Aliev, a resident of Ingushetia, and kept him, demanding from his family members to give out his brother. After the intervention of the Russian Ombudsman's administration, Anzor Aliev returned to his family members. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, introduced in the Kvanada village council of Dagestan on January 31, has been lifted. This was reported by the operational headquarters of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Family members of Makhma Muskiev, detained during a special operation carried out by Chechen law enforcers, do not longer live in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt. This was reported by local residents. According to them, law enforcers forced the Muskiev family members to leave the village, although villagers were against that.

The process of extradition of blogger Alexander Lapshin is a purely legal issue, and attempts to politicize it are fundamentally wrong. This was stated by Khikmet Gadjiev, the spokesman of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office demands to bring blogger Ilya Davydov to criminal responsibility for a stage performance with broad jokes about the Koran and the Bible.

The complaints of Anzor and Shagid Gubashev about their custody conditions and delays in consideration of their appeals in Boris Nemtsov’s murder case were accepted by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), but it has made no decisions on payment compensations to the brothers, said their advocate.

The sentence passed to Oksana Sevastidi, a resident of Sochi, convicted on charges of treason, should be cancelled, says the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The armed clashes that broke out on January 30 in the Chechen town of Shali and led to casualties was either a pre-planned militants’ attack, or an occasional accident, due to which power agents had thwarted crimes of the supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia. The divergence of versions has caused both controversies in power agents’ statements and local residents’ stories.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has opened a case on a fraud with a land plot lease against Nikolai Borodin, a participant of the “tractor march” of farmers from the Krasnodar Territory, and Elena Petrova, the wife of another protester. Borodin suggests that they are prosecuted for their participation in the protest movement.

Last night, the health condition of Nerses Pogosyan, arrested in Yerevan on suspicion of having links with Zhirair Sefilyan, sharply aggravated; and he stopped the protest hunger strike. Prison doctors assessed his condition as satisfactory.

In the case of planned assassination of the leader of the Chechen Republic in the spring of 2016, the investigators' versions is based on the testimonies of Shamkhan Magomadov, Beslan Zakaraev, and Aziz Alviev, detained in May 2016 after an attack on a checkpoint in the Grozny District. Meanwhile, two of them have close relations with the Yamadaev family, the "Rosbalt" reports.

Residents of the Shelkovsky District of Chechnya, detained on January 31 on suspicion of intending to leave for Syria to join the militants, were plotting killings of policemen. This was reported by a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

A resident of Nalchik and a citizen of Kyrgyzstan, detained in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), are suspected of preparations for leaving for Syria to join militants. This was reported by a source from the regional law enforcement bodies.

Khasan Mezhidov, a resident of Shali, wounded in the course of the night shootout of January 30, still stays at hospital. He underwent surgery. After that, his condition is serious, but stable, report family members of the man. According to them, Khasan Mezhidov needs long-term medical treatment.

In Baku, participants of an action have expressed their protest against the policy pursued by leaders of the opposition "Musavat" Party and its criticism of the Azerbaijani authorities.