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The Moscow City Court (MCC) has decided to leave Khasan Zakaev, 41, suspected of aiding the organizers of capturing the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre on October 23, 2002, in custody, said the press service of the court.

Policemen, members of Cossack organizations and the Armenian Diaspora reject the national component in the conflict, which ended in the death of a soldier in the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody). These statements appeared after the action held in the city on January 24.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has refused to satisfy the claim of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to liquidate the Russian Historical, Educational and Human Rights Society "Memorial".

As stated by the NKR Defence Army, on January 27, and at night on January 28, Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire in the conflict zone for about 300 times. According to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Armenian party shelled their position for 113 times within the last 24 hours.

The application of Gyunay Ismaylova, a lawyer from the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), that on January 26 she was attacked in Baku, was not accepted by the police, said the rights defender.

The Tver District Court of Moscow has rescheduled for February 12 the consideration of the complaint lodged by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" against placing the Centre into the register of "foreign agents". The court session failed because of non-appearance of respondents.

In the murder case of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, three persons, all of them being relatives of the assassinated family, are recognized as successors of the suffered party.

A group of foreign doctors has conducted a repeated examination of arrested rights defender Leyla Yunus in Azerbaijan, the Penitentiary Service reports.

The Sabail District Court of Baku has partially granted the petition lodged by the prosecutor's office of the capital of Azerbaijan and extended the arrest of the journalist Khadija Ismayilova by 1 month and 19 days.

Sergey Melikov, the Plenipotentiary Envoy of Russian President to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), is paying a working visit to Dagestan; in Makhachkala, he held a meeting with activists of youth organizations and NGOs, inspected the city health facilities and reported on the planned sitting in Derbent.

The Baksan District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sentenced a resident of the Baksan District to 13 months in prison on charges of aiding militants.

A lawsuit demanding to restrict access to the pages of 85 users of the social network "VKontakte" was submitted to the court by the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya. Among the materials posted on these pages are caricatures from the magazine "Charlie Hebdo".

According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan, within the last 24 hours, Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire for 126 times. The Armenian party has announced 300 cases of shelling of its positions in the conflict zone.

The marchers in Yerevan have demanded a more active informing of the society about the investigation of the massacre of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri; they carried posters demanding to extradite Valery Permyakov to the Armenian party. Activists have accused the Armenian authorities of inaction in this matter.

On January 26, a court in Makhachkala dismissed a lawsuit on invalidating the custody of Murad Nurmagomedov, the author of the video clip, criticizing the Muslims who celebrate the New Year. He is accused of illegal possession of firearms; his defence intends to appeal against the dismissal.

As reported by the Police of Armenia, Armenian investigators are examining the version that Valery Permyakov, a Russian military, accused of massacring the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, could have accomplices.

Relatives of the Avetisyan family, which was massacred in the Armenian city of Gyumri at night on January 12, have appealed to law enforcement bodies asking to ensure their safety.

Four participants of the unauthorized rally in the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody) have been brought to administrative responsibility – they were administratively arrested for 10 days. Among those arrested is Alexei Grischenko, a member of the local public movement "Veche CMV", the "Blocknote-Stavropol" reports.

The participants of the action held at the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the UN Office in Armenia expressed their demand to take diplomatic steps to stop sabotage actions and provocations undertaken by the Azerbaijani party on the border of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and the Tavush Region of Armenia.

Three Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in the conflict zone, as there are wounded, said today the Ministry of Defence. In this case, the names of those killed and injured number is not listed.