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In Derbent, some of the supporters of the Imam of the mosque located in the neighbourhood named "Airport", who were detained on February 10 during a protest action, are not at large yet, said local residents. A mosque employee said that the mosque works as usual.

In the case against Stanislav Klykh and Nikolai Karpyuk, a victim testified that during the assault of Grozny, he and his colleagues failed to reach the city centre. This was reported by advocate Marina Dubrovina.

Participants of action in Moscow and solo pickets in Cherkessk have voiced the demand to hold a referendum in order to return the direct election of the leader of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KchR). According to the organizers of the protest action, it was attended by 100 people, while officials deny the figure.

Talekh Khasmamedov, who is serving his sentence in prison in Azerbaijan, needs serious medical treatment. This was reported by Fakhriya Khasmamedova, the wife of the human rights defender.

A Baku court has refused to provide a permit to Leyla and Arif Yunus to leave the country for medical treatment abroad.

In Derbent, bailiffs have obliged the city authorities to include additional 68 persons in the waiting list for housing certificates. These people lost their houses as a result of the flood of 2012, and they are eligible for financial assistance.

Sergey Deviatov has lost the post of the head of the Chechen Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) under a decree of Russian president. His term of office was two years.

In the period from 2010 to 2015, a total of 6074 people fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; more than half of them – in Dagestan. The runner-up by the count of killed and wounded persons is Chechnya; the third place is occupied by Ingushetia.

The decision to pay out compensations in the amount of 369,000 euros was issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in two cases, concerning disappearance and death of six natives of Chechnya in 2000-2002.

Despite a relative stability of the currency exchange market of Azerbaijan, the country has a high risk of a new devaluation of the national currency – the manat, said Natig Jafarli, an economist. Gubad Ibadoglu, the head of the Economic Research Centre, believes that only support of the state can save the country's banking sector from collapse.

In the period of from February 1 to February 7, Dagestan has registered 4770 cases of SARS and influenza. Of them, 69% are children. Since the beginning of the epidemiological season, the incidence rate in the republic did not exceed the epidemic threshold.

In Volgograd, officials have guaranteed, at a meeting with tenants of the destroyed apartment block, to build a new house in Kosmonavtov Street, but there is no official decision on that so far, said Larisa Borodaeva, the leader of tenants-activists, adding that the issue of free legal aid to tenants ids still pending.

Any irony about the incident with Mikhail Kasyanov is inappropriate; and nobody will be prosecuted for the attack, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Musail Alaudinov, a coach of the club "Gorets" (Highlander), was killed after beating up Murad Alibekov, the owner of the network of fuelling stations, said the brother of the athlete at the court session in Dagestan.

A new high-rise building will be built in place of the destroyed nine-story apartment house in Kosmonavtov Street in the Dzerzhinsky District of Volgograd in one year, said Andrei Bocharov, Governor of the Volgograd Region.

The Imam, detained by the police, is suspected of unlawful confinement of a 27-year-old woman from Derbent and her four-year-old child, said Rasul Temirbekov, the spokesman of the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The protesters, detained during the action against the detention of Imam Gadjirasul, have been released from the police, said one of the employees of the mosque. According to his story, the Imam urged parishioners to disperse.

Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President, has treated the attack on Mikhail Kasyanov, the Chairman of the PARNAS Party, committed in downtown Moscow, as molestation.

The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has dismissed an appeal complaint against the decision of the Alagir District Court on demolition of the fence and house built near the Dzivgis Fortress. The complaint was filed by the family, which had erected the structures.

The bill on amendments that impose restrictions on exporting currencies from Azerbaijan was returned to Parliament at the request of entrepreneurs and investors, said the service of the assistant of the head of the country on economic reforms.