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Investigators believe that the 34-year-old resident of the village of Islamey, Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), helped members of the underground by providing housing and foodstuffs.

The court that considers the murder case of the Dagestani journalist Abdulmalik Akhmedilov has read out testimonies of three prosecution witnesses, extended the arrest of the defendants by two months, and ruled to force two witnesses to the next session scheduled on February 17, said one of the advocates.

Two opposition parties – the "Armenian National Congress" (ANC) and the Front of National Salvation "New Armenia" – received permits to hold rallies in Freedom Square, dedicated to the events on March 1, 2008.

When preparing the report "Threat to National Security" about Ramzan Kadyrov, information from open sources, including materials of the "Caucasian Knot", was analyzed; but the report will also present new data, said the author of the report Ilya Yashin, an opposition politician.

In Derbent, Imam of a Salafi mosque was detained by law enforcers in the territory of the "Airport" residential district. Local residents are gathering in front of the police station and demanding to release the Imam.

In the rear of the "Islamic State" (IS), not the Chechen spetsnaz (special troops) are operating, but just "self-organized groups of young people," who "risk their lives and suffer losses," representatives of the republic's leadership have admitted.

Daniyal Alkhasov, a doctor of the Dagestani village of Erpeli, has addressed the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with a complaint about the systematic pressure of law enforcers and his unlawful operational-preventive registration at the police as a follower of the Salafi concept of Islam.

In Armenia, the law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into the case of obstruction to actions of an authorized delegate at the constitutional referendum held on December 6, 2015.

The court that considers the murder case of Rasim Aliev has refused to summon the Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan; however, it partially granted the petition to summon forensic experts, said Asabali Mustafaev, an advocate.

Former tenants of the destroyed house in Volgograd seek to meet the Governor or his representative to learn about compensation for their lost housing before the public hearings on surveying the territory, said Larisa Borodaeva, the leader of tenants' activists.

In the outskirts of the village of Ashali, law enforcers found a large hideout with weapons and medicines; the "owners" of the weapons have not been defined yet, said a law enforcement source of Dagestan.

In Chechnya, people are afraid of Ramzan Kadyrov. This was stated by Ilya Yashin, Deputy Chairman of the "People's Freedom Party" (PARNAS), who visited Grozny while working on the report about the leader of Chechnya. According to Ilya Yashin, the study is addressed to the Russian public, and there are people in Chechnya, who will disseminate the report in the territory of the republic.

Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film director, sentenced in Rostov-on-Don to 20 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony on the charge of terrorism, has been transported to Yakutia. This was reported by advocate Mark Feighin.

According to the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the reports of the kidnapping of a young man in the Leninsky District of Grozny on February 5 have not been confirmed, as well as the posts in social networks about the disappearance of seven persons.

Ramzan Kadyrov's statement that Chechen spetsnaz (special troops) is at war in Syria should be treated with scepticism, said Reserve Colonel Victor Murakhovskiy and Andrei Koshkin, a military political analyst. If Kadyrov is telling the truth, then he has actually "exposed" his spetsnaz to the fighters of the "Islamic State" (IS), said Alexei Malashenko, a member of the Scientific Council of the Moscow Carnegie Centre.

Dmitry Manshin, a witness in the case of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, has stated at interrogation the truthfulness of the version of the prosecution. Savchenko and her defence have disagreed with Manshin's testimonies, and received a remark for that.

Shamil Avenue was closed with the aim of conducting targeted checks; information about blocking a house with militants is not true, said a law enforcement source of Dagestan.

At the request of the Prosecutor's Office, the Sovietskiy District Court of Astrakhan, which is considering the case of Igor Stenin, the leader of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", has announced the trial closed and removed the audience and the media from the courtroom.

The Frunze District Court of Saratov has placed into custody a suspect of recruiting people to the "Imarat Kavkaz Vilayat Dagestan", which is recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization.

In the territory of Syria, in the rear of the militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), fighters of the Chechen special forces are operating, said the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, adding that the Chechen fighters had been trained at the centre of special forces near the village of Tsentoroi.