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The criminal case against Ivan Barylyak, a resident of Stavropol, has a political motive related to the public activities of the convict; and his prosecution is related exclusively to this activities. These conclusions were made by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", which recognized Barylyak to be a political prisoner.

Ilya Yashin, Deputy Chairman of the People's Freedom Party (known as "Parnas") has arrived in the Chechen capital, where he is collecting materials for a report about the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov. The provisional title of the report is "Threat to National Security"; the end of the work is scheduled for February 23.

Decision of the ECtHR on the case of torturing Gilal Mamedov in Azerbaijan; Georgia's President addresses his annual message to Parliament; rallies in Dagestani cities of Khasavyurt and Buynaksk; meeting of housing shareholders in Krasnodar with Kuban Governor on stopped construction of house; stop of hunger strike by resident of Volgograd, who demanded from authorities to solve her housing problem, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 1-7, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week from February 1 to February 7, 2016, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus at least one person was killed. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

An appeal to President Vladimir Putin has been sent by the suffered party in the case of the death Murat Borlakov at the Ust-Djeguta ROVD (District Interior Division), as well as by the representative of the victims in the case of robbery and theft of cattle in the Stavropol Territory; the figurants in both cases are policemen of Ust-Djeguta.

The oppositional "National Centre of Strategic Thought" has presented an action plan for driving Azerbaijan out of the economic crisis. In particular, it is necessary to adopt a new constitution, and to hold early parliamentary and presidential elections.

Today, three activists of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan" have held an action in support of Ildar Dadin, convicted for repeated violation of the rules of holding actions, and Alexander Belov (Potkin), one of the leaders of the nationalistic movement "Russians".

The mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has visited at the penitentiary institution located in the city of Shushi Shakhbaz Guliev and Dilkham Askerov, convicted for murder, theft, illegal border crossing, possession of weapons and espionage.

Fizuli Guseinov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who is serving an administrative arrest of 30 days, holds a hunger strike in the police detention facility, said Nureddin Mamedli, Deputy Chairman of the PFPA. Party activists fear for Guseinov's health and state political reasons for his arrest.

In Astrakhan, over 50 people have come today with social demands to a rally, organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). Protesters stated the insolvency of the Russian government in the face of rising prices and tariffs and demanded its resignation.

In Sochi, a policeman received a gunshot wound, when checking documents of a 53-year-old man. The latter was detained; and the policeman was hospitalized with a wound into the forearm, the ICRF reports.

Radil Mirzaev has stated that a group of masked men kidnapped and beat him up. Mirzaev was delivered to the hospital of city of Jalilabad in grave condition.

Gamzat Saigidov, killed in a shootout with power agents on the Kizilyurt-Makhachkala highway, had been on the wanted list, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). Saigidov was a militants' helper, said the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation.

The Armed Forces of Armenia violated the ceasefire by using heavy machine guns; in response, Azerbaijani troops inflicted a fire attack, destroying military vehicles and killing enemy soldiers, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today, and disseminated a video of the incident; however, the video has traces of cutting and editing.

On February 5, in the Leninsky District of Grozny, a group of people captured a young man and took him away to some unknown destination. This was reported by local residents through social networks. The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have not yet commented on the incident.

The voting at the election of the leader of Chechnya will be held simultaneously with the elections of deputies to the State Duma. This was reported by Ismail Baikhanov, Chairman of the Chechen Election Commission.

On February 5, at the trial in the criminal case of the murder of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, the court questioned three witnesses, who told the details of the Valery Permyakov's detention.

The "Roszdravnadzor" has started checking the perinatal centre in Khasavyurt, where Zalina Dalieva, a maternity patient of Chechen origin died. The perinatal centre itself is operating normally, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed by Zarina Agmadova, the press secretary of the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health.

In Sochi, sisters Tatiana and Svetlana Pidbolyachnaya are accused of fraud in obtaining inheritance. According to investigators, the women filed a lawsuit to the court and succeeded in recognizing their mother as dead, although she was still alive, but lived in another city. According to the victim, she has lost her housing, since the house with a land plot belonging to her were sold and demolished during the construction of Olympic facilities.

Akhmed Zakaev, the head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, has treated the proposal to return home, made to him by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, as propaganda and having no connection with the reality.