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The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office carries out a check to find out whether names of residents of the village of Mokok located in the Tsuntin District were legally withdrawn from the list of persons affected by the fire which occurred in August 2016.

On January 16, Kurchaloi, a district centre in Chechnya, hosted a gathering, which participants made a decision to evict in future family members of militants from the republic. The gathering was held in Kurchaloi after five villagers had been detained in a special operation.

According to unofficial information, Sergey Chenchik, the head of the Chief Headquarters of the Russian Guard, can replace Ramazan Abdulatipov as the leader of Dagestan. This was announced by journalist Maxim Shevchenko, a member of the Russian Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights.

On January 16, Elizaveta Glinka, also known as Dr. Liza, was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. She was the head of the "Spravedlivaya Pomosch" (Fair Aid) Foundation, and she was one of the victims to the Tu-154 crash near the coast of Sochi.

The police take measures to find out the circumstances of the demolition of a wall in the territory of the private household, built on the land plot by a resident of the Makhachkala village of Separatorny. This was reported by the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have expressed their doubts concerning the statements voiced by the leader of Chechnya about the militants' plans to capture a tank unit and to attack Khankala. According to the experts, members of the armed underground have no resources to organize such large-scale attacks.

Today, Rakhim Veliev, an activist of the "Nida" youth movement was detained; his home was searched. In the evening, the court sentenced Veliev to a 15-day arrest. The young man told his relatives about it by phone, but could not explain the reason for his arrest.

In his last plea at the trial in Maikop, the Circassian activist Adnan Khuade asked the court to acquit him. According to the activist, he is persecuted for "defending the right of his people to the recognition of Circassian genocide."

The court has found Gevorg Safaryan, an Armenian activist and a member of the "Constituent Parliament", guilty of using violence against a power official, and sentenced him to two years in jail.

In response to the demand of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Dagestan to provide information about the victims of female circumcision, the "Justice Initiative for Russia" (SRJI) has sent anonymous interviews collected for a research of the mutilating genital surgeries in girls in the republic.

About twenty activists of the youth wing of the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation) "Dashnaktsutyun" and the Student Union "Nikol Agbalyan" have come today to the Embassy of Belarus in Yerevan, demanding to prevent deportation of blogger Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijani authorities.

About 60 militants and their helpers, associated with the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, have been detained in a special operation in Chechnya, the "Interfax" reports referring to its source in power agencies of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

The Baku Court of Grave Crimes has recognized Elgiz Gakhramanov, an activist of the "Nida" movement, guilty of large-scale drug dealing and sentenced him to 5 years and 6 months of imprisonment.

Today, Elena Zhemkova, the executive director of the International "Memorial", has reported on filing an appeal to the Moscow City Court against the decision of the Zamoskvorechye Court of Moscow to recognize the legitimacy of the introduction of the NGO in the register of foreign agents.

In the Chechen town of Shali, three local residents were detained on suspicion of involvement in the armed underground. They have confessed to be members of a grouping led by Imran Datsaev. This was reported by the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya.

The main tasks of a grouping of militants, neutralized on January 11, were to capture a tank unit and to attack the village of Khankala. This was reported by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

Today, the Nagorno-Karabakh MoD has reported that the statement made by the Azerbaijani MoD about killing of Azerbaijani soldier Fikret Bashirov in the Karabakh conflict zone does not correspond to reality.

Resignation of the head of Adygea Aslan Tkhakushinov; clash in the Chechen village of Tsotsi-Yurt and subsequent special operation; attack on "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in Rostov-on-Don, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 9-15, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Garik Vardanyan, a soldier of the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh, wounded under the shelling from the Azerbaijani side, died at a hospital in Yerevan. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Odessa Court of Appeal has pronounced the decision to grant refugee status to Pyotr Lyubchenkov. The opposition activist has reported about this on his Facebook page.