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According to the preliminary information, in Dagestan, during a special operation held in the Kizilyurt District, three members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) were shot and killed. This was reported by a source in the power structures of Dagestan.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has left in custody human rights defender Leyla Yunus and dismissed her complaint about the extension of her detention.

The Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has decided to consider the request for extradition of Valery Permyakov to the Armenian side and notified the Prosecutor's Office in Armenia about the decision.

Eduard Khodorkovsky, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), is sentenced on charge of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF). The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld his sentence announced in the KBR.

In Tbilisi, some exchange offices have temporarily stopped selling US dollars. The official exchange rate of Georgian lari to US dollar set up by the National Bank of Georgia reached 2.26.

A documentary novel based on the events of the prosecution and trial in the case against Kislovodsk Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov charged with drug possession will be published in Moscow. This was reported by the author of the novel, advocate Alaudi Musaev.

In Dagestan, the leader of the regional branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party has stated that an official from the local government was involved in the attack on him. According to the leader of the Dagestani branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" Party, attackers said that they "were sent by people from the leader of the republic."

The Adler District Court has decided to fine the Saveliev family by 2500 roubles for the failure to fulfil the decision on demolition of unsanctioned buildings in Akatsij Street. The family members continue to live in the cottage, which they occupied illegally on February 23.

In the village of Shushiya of the Novolak District of Dagestan, seven women continue their hunger strike with the demand to allocate land shares. Three other protesters have stopped their hunger strike because of deterioration of their health.

The detention of the leader of the NGO "Law and Order" in the town of Goychay located 150 kilometres west of Baku was reported by Oktai Gyulalyev, the head of the Public Alliance "Azerbaijan without political prisoners", who referred to the family of the rights defender.

The Krasnodar Regional Court has ruled to consider the criminal case of Khaiser Dzhemilev, the son of Mustafa Dzhemilev, an MP of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the former head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, by means of a jury. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 3.

Gadjimurad Omarov, the Chairman of the Board of the Dagestani Branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, has been hospitalized to the N. Sklifosovsky Research Institute in Moscow. Doctors plan to operate on his collarbone.

In Dagestan, the court session on the case of the terror act committed in the house of Sheikh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi is postponed to February 26. The court has made such a decision to provide the new advocate with time to examine the materials.

The suspected militants killed last night in a shootout at a police post in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, have been pre-identified.

On February 23, the State Museum of the History of GULAG in Moscow hosted a memorial party dedicated to the 71st anniversary of the deportation of Chechens and Ingushes. There, the archival documents were presented, which cover the life in special settlements; and a film about the deportation was screened.

One policeman and two alleged attackers were killed near a police post in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. Another law enforcer was wounded.

After the devaluation of the national currency – the manat, credit cards of Baku residents are blocked; and many shops are closed, said Eyub Guseinov, the chairman of the Union of Free Consumers.

Relatives of the Avetisyan family, massacred in Gyumri, have occupied the office of Raffi Aslanyan, the Public Prosecutor of the Shirak Region, demanding a meeting or a telephone talk with the General Public Prosecutor (GPP) of Armenia. Aslanyan has left his workplace.

Arthur Afyan, a contract soldier of the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri, has disappeared. His whereabouts cannot be established for the third day already.

Collapse of political oppositional troika in Armenia; beating up of Dagestani leader of "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" in Makhachkala; sharp devaluation of national currency by Azerbaijani Central Bank; emigration from Russia of Mikhail Savva, conditionally convicted in Krasnodar; election of a new head of Astrakhan; entry into force of four ECtHR's decision on complaints of residents of Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 16-22, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".