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One of those, killed on January 11 by power agents in the Kurchaloi District, in 2004, was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for participating in an illegal armed formation (IAF), said a Chechen law enforcement source.

In the course of public hearings of the draft rules of Sochi improvement, public activists have criticized such notions, included into the document, like "tree pruning and illumination" and the procedure of garbage collection. They demanded to hold a new hearing after the document is corrected. The Mayoralty promised to take remarks into account.

Employees of the "Nairit" Factory in Armenia have called on political parties to unite and solve the problems of the enterprise. They demand to urgently raise the "Nairit" issue and openly discuss it at Parliament with participation of workers of the factory.

After the death in the April war of Andranik Grigoryan, a private of the Defence Army, his family, which has four minors, remained living in a dilapidated house. Family members ask the authorities to help with house repairs or to provide them with some new housing. The Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Arayik Arutyunyan promised to solve the problem.

The Chechen village of Tsotsi-Yurt, where on January 11 five persons were killed in a shootout, saw no such incidents for the last 15 years. The previous major incident took place there in February 2002, when an armoured vehicle with militaries was blown up in the vicinity of the village.

Today, in the city of Derbent, parents of preschool children have held a rally against the increase of the fees for children's care and rearing in state-owned kindergartens. They tried to get into the Mayoralty to meet the Mayor, but were pushed away by security guards and policemen.

In the course of an armed clash in the outskirts of the village of Tsotsi-Yurt, four militants and one law enforcer were killed, the head of Chechnya has stated. A source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya has added that one militant managed to escape in the forest.

Doctors have examined Vladislav Ryazantsev, the attacked "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, and diagnosed a wrist fracture and confirmed a closed craniocerebral injury. A nationalist Roman Zheleznov has stated that "Russian national socialists had committed the attack."

As an experiment, since March 1, 2017, they plan to introduce the resort fee in Kislovodsk, Zheleznovodsk, Yessentuki and Pyatigorsk. However, hotel owners fear that it will drop the tourist flow.

In violation of the law, the trial of Mekhman Guseinov in Baku was held behind closed doors; the identities of the blogger and witnesses were not established, said the advocate Sadygov said. He is preparing a complaint against the judgement to fine the blogger and about torturing Guseinov at the police.

The criminal case against a resident of the city of Chegem, who was killed, according to power agents, in an armed clash with policemen in 2013, was sent to the Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). His relatives demand to rehabilitate him, the press service of the KBR's Prosecutor's Office reports.

The construction of a Russian military training ground in the village of Tsebelda is outside the plans of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Abkhazia, the MoD has stated.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted the complaint of the lawyer Igor Trunov against the refusal of the Central Election Commission (CEC) to admit him to the State Duma elections.

On January 10, at a sitting in Kurchaloi, the republic's head Ramzan Kadyrov presented Ali Abdulaev, the new head of the administration of the Kurchaloi District. Kadyrov also reported the detention in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt of the Kurchaloi District of young people, who were preparing a series of grave crimes.

The inquiry into the case of a probable customer of the murder of the politician Boris Nemtsov continues. It is possible that the crime had several customers, said Igor Krasnov, the Deputy Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The protesters have demanded from bosses of their company to raise tariffs for carriage of passengers due to the rise in fuel prices. However, the company has stated that it could not meet the protesters' demands.

Several young people, who were preparing a series of crimes, were detained in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt; a family member of Isa Muskiev, one of the militant leaders, killed in 2006, is among the detainees. Muskiev's relatives prepared "bloodshed," said Kadyrov.

The mother of the inmate Ruslan Saifutdinov, who died in the city of Kurgan and who had earlier been wanted in Dagestan for participation in the Middle East conflict, refused from further medical examinations of her son's body, in order to immediately bury him according to Muslim traditions. However, the autopsy was made and found no internal injuries, the local department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) has reported.

A native of Dagestan Firuddin Ragimov was exposed to electric shocks, assert the experts of the "Centre for Forensic Examinations and Studies". Their conclusions confirm the earlier Ragimov's statements about torture, the human rights organization "Committee to Prevent Torture" (CPT) has stated.

Quality inspection commissions are monitoring meals in kindergartens of Volgograd after the switchover to outsourcing. The catering in kindergartens has not changed, say the parents.