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Today, the electoral list of the bloc "Free Democrats" – "Freedom" has been headed by Khachatur Kokobelyan, the leader of "Free Democrats". Gagik Tsarukyan, the founder of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party (PAP), is in the lead of the list of the bloc PAP – "Alliance".

The issues of colonial practices of the Caucasus and Central Asia were discussed at the sitting on "Caucasus and Central Asia: Colonialism Factor in Imperial and Soviet Epochs", which took place on February 15 within the regular scientific-practical seminar "Caucasus in the Past and the Present (Society and Politics, Economy and Culture)”.

Law enforcers have completed measures to search for members of the armed underground in the village of Andi of the Botlikh District. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The Elista City Court plans to hold the first session on the death of the inmate Dmitri Batyrev in the colony, who, according to investigators, received at least 60 blows with a rubber truncheon. The prisoner’s dock contains seven employees of the local department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (know as UFSIN); five of them are accused of the inmate’s death; and two others – of beating inmates in 2012. The family of Batyrev believes that investigators failed to reveal all those guilty of his death.

Shamil Nurmagomedov, commercial director of one of the Moscow Region companies, a native of Makhachkala, accused of sponsoring the terrorist organization "Islamic state" (IS), banned in Russia, was arrested by the court's decision. Shamil Nurmagomedov tried to return home his brother, who stayed in Syria. This was reported by the defendant's defence.

In Syrian Latakia, the Russian troops have begun to distribute the Armenian humanitarian aid. One of the first institutions, which will receive the aid, will be a school at an ancient church, in which 400 Armenian children study.

On February 14, the conference hall of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University in Makhachkala hosted a presentation of the documentary film "Abandoned Villages of Dagestan" shot by the Dagestani Historical and Geographical Society (DagHGS).

A car belonging to the advocate of Zaur Dadaev, defendant in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, was shelled. This was reported by the defender himself.

Today, the Investigating Department (ID) for Chechnya of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has cancelled its earlier refusal to open a criminal case against the power agents, who had kidnapped Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, threatened him with death and planted drugs on him, said the advocate Alaudi Musaev.

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office ignores complaints of Tumsu Abdurakhmanov, a resident of the republic, about his unlawful persecution by the Chechen police, Alexander Cherkasov, the Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", said in his appeal to the General Prosecutor’s Office (GPO) of Russia.

Azerbaijani authorities have realized the error of their decision to pay allowances to internally displaced persons (IDPs) instead of providing them with utility benefits, the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", have stated in their comments on the President's decision to restore the benefits.

Ramzan Kadyrov has received from the Moscow Jewish Religious Community a video record of the statement of Pinchas Goldschmidt, who apologized for his words about Muslims-terrorists, Olga Esaulova, the spokeswoman of the community, told the "Caucasian Knot". Kadyrov himself, when speaking about Goldschmidt’s apologies, mistakenly called him the Chief Rabbi of Russia.

According to Oleg Petrov, a farmer, today, Alexei Volchenko, the leader of the "Polite Farmers” movement, was detained by law enforcers. "I managed to call him and talked to him for a few minutes, he said that he’s suspected of bribing a medic," Oleg Petrov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Said Saipudinov, a resident of the Makhachkala neighbourhood of Shamkhal, whose kidnapping was reported by his relatives on February 13, is kept at one of police divisions, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Relatives of the young people, detained in January in the Kurchaloi and Shali Districts of Chechnya, state that they have no information about their whereabouts and fate. The police refused to specify the number of detainees and stated the ongoing investigation.

An advocate has demanded to recognize illegal a search carried out without a court order in the house of Rakhim Veliev, an activist of the Azerbaijani movement "Nida", during which a mobile phone and a PC were seized. The defence intends to challenge the court's decision.

A US citizen sentenced in absentia in Uzbekistan on the charge of terrorism has been detained at the airport in Batumi. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia.

Today, at the beginning of the court hearing in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, Zaurbek Sadakhanov, a lawyer of defendant Khamzat Bakhaev, has reported that unidentified criminals broke a window in his car and stole a bag and all the documents in the case, reports the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Kalmykia has dismissed the complaint filed by a female resident of the republic, excluded by the administration of Elista from the number of participants of the programme "Affordable Housing for Young Families" in connection with the fact that the woman celebrated her 35th birthday. The complainant intends to file a cassation appeal.

In the Nazran District, law enforcers found a hiding with ammunition, hand grenades, and camouflage uniform, which belonged to a member of the armed underground, killed in 2015. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).