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A Dagestani court has found Khabib Magomedov, a resident of Buynaksk, guilty of involvement in the "Hizb-ut-Tahrir", the organization banned in Russia and illegal circulation of ammunition.

On February 11, power agents were detaining young people in the marketplace in central Grozny, told Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported. Eyewitnesses associate these detentions with the incident in the village of Tsentaroy, where the wall of one of the buildings was decorated with the symbols of the "Islamic State".

Last night, in the Urvan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a man was killed, who opened fire on policemen in response to their demand to stop his car for inspection.

The participants of the emergency assembly of the Board of Elders of Derbent have appealed to Russian President and the heads of country's law enforcement bodies to check the legality of the criminal case against the city Mayor of Imam Yaraliev.

The Azerbaijani rights defender Emin Guseinov, while fleeing the repression of country's authorities, since August 18, 2014, is forced to hide in the Swiss Embassy in Baku, says the Norwegian Foundation "Human Rights House" (HRH).

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has obliged the Russia's Ministry of Finance to pay a compensation of 500,000 roubles to Anzor Koshiev for his illegal detention and criminal prosecution.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has instructed the investigating authorities to resume the inquiry into the kidnapping in February 2003 of Idris Ulubaev, a resident of the village of Novye Atagi of the Shali District.

The session of the KBR's SC on the murder case of Alexei Makoev, shot dead in a special operation, has been rescheduled for February 18.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has satisfied the petition lodged by Andrei Rudomakha, the head of "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), asking to postpone the commencement of the proceedings on liquidation of his organization.

A complaint against the decision to put Magomed Khazbiev on the wanted list was lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia by his advocate Khedy Ibrieva.

Ukrainian militaries will inspect, jointly with their Russian colleagues, one seventh part of the Rostov Region, planning to find evidence of Russia's military help to the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

Yerem Sarkisyan, the advocate for the successors of the Avetisyan family, the members of which were assassinated in Gyumri, has filed a petition on holding additional investigative steps in order to clarify all the circumstances of the crime and establish the true motive thereof.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has left Levon Airapetyan, an entrepreneur and a notable member of the Armenian Diaspora in Russia, accused within the "Bashneft" case, under home arrest.

In Derbent, the Lezgin Theatre is hosting an emergency session of the city Board of Elders. Its members have expressed support for the head of the city Imam Yaraliev and urged residents not to yield to provocations.

Against the background of the OSCE monitoring, whose mission has fixed no violations of the ceasefire in the conflict zone, and the demand of Azerbaijani political scientists to change the format of the mission, a soldier of the NKR's Defence Army was killed.

The monitoring, held on February 10 by the OSCE mission on the contact line of the armed forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Azerbaijan, passed without incidents.

46 prisoners, sentenced to life imprisonment, are on hunger strike at Gldani Prison No. 8, demanding revision of their cases and amending the law on amnesty. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the Ministry of Corrections, Probation and Legal Assistance.

he members of the Usenko family have demanded proofs from the Sochi administration (Mayoralty) that the house offered for their resettlement had been commissioned. Tamara Usenko said at the court session that two persons had perished in the house from gas explosion.

A spontaneous rally demanding the return of state farm land was held by villagers of Uchkent, the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan. The land plots in question had been illegally privatized by one of the former heads of state farm named after Akaev, said the protesters.

Residents of the village of Shushiya in the Novolak District of Dagestan have resumed their hunger strike demanding the return of their land plots and solution of other resettlers' problems.