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In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, during the week from January 19 to January 25, 2015, no victims were recorded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Over the past 24 hours, the Armenian party has violated the ceasefire in the conflict zone for 124 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan has reported, while the spokesman for the MoD of Armenia has reported last night's relative peace on the contact line.

Death of the baby – the only survivor in the attack on family in Gyumri, and interrogation of soldier Permyakov accused of the massacre by Armenian investigators; actions against caricatures on Prophet Muhammad in Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia and Azerbaijan; verdict in Rostov-on-Don to journalist Sergey Reznik; mass brawl in a Minvody cafe with fatality; construction of railway in Southern Russia, bypassing Ukraine; revocation of license from "Adam International" Bank of Makhachkala, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 19-25, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On January 25, a hair of Prophet Muhammad was delivered from Makhachkala to Moscow for public observation at the gala party "Mawlid al-Nabi".

The natives of Dagestan Shuaib Shuaibov and Isa Abdusamadov, who were detained at Vnukovo Airport have been released from the police after a check, said Aisha Selimkhanova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

As reported by Adam Tsechoev, the head of the Malgobek District, through the efforts of the district adaptation commission they managed to return a local guy, who was in the way to war in Syria, from Turkey to Ingushetia.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case "Malika Yusupova at al versus Russia" has proved that the investigatory authorities did not want to inquire into people's applications about disappearances in Chechnya, said the lawyer Dokku Itslaev.

The natives of Dagestan Shuaib Shuaibov and Isa Abdusamadov were detained on their arrival from Egypt to Moscow and then sent to Makhachkala, said the wife of Shuaibov. According to her story, Shuaibov and Abdusamadov were questioned on suspicion of the men's participation in the hostilities in Syria. However, the local MIA did not confirm this information.

Elshad Babaev, who was kept in a colony of Azerbaijan, has died a natural death, medical experts have concluded. However, his relatives assert that Elshad died from torture, while law enforcers fail to conduct an objective investigation.

Nikolai Belugin, a pensioner, has asked the members of the Sochi City Council to organize a charity event with the aim to collect funds to help the builders of Olympic facilities, who have failed to receive their wages at the companies that belonged to one of the council members.

Today in Volgograd, Boris Stikhin, a member of the International Union of Anarchists, has held a solo picket against the warfare in Eastern Ukraine.

Since January 23, 8000 people have signed the demand to give the Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who is accused of massacring the Avetisyan family, out to law enforcement bodies of Armenia.

An Azerbaijani subversive group was almost completely liquidated while trying to attack military positions of the Armenian armed forces in the pre-border Tavush Region, Artsrun Ovannisyan, the spokesman of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD), has stated today, adding that the Armenian party suffered no losses.

Policemen in Rostov-on-Don are searching for five missing pupils of the social rehabilitation centre.

Gigi Mosiashvili, the defender of the deceased Yuri Vazagashvili, has moved a demand to replace the investigators in the case of the earlier killed Zurab Vazagashvili.

Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are investigating the incident with a wound in the head of an 11-year-old boy in the city of Argun. The boy was shot from a pistol belonging to a policeman.

On January 23, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal (CoA) found Megis Kardava, the ex-head of the Department of Military Police of the Georgia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) guilty of sexual assault and torture of the officer Sergo Tetradze and sentenced him in absentia to 9 years in prison.

On January 23, participants of the press conference at the Central House of Journalists in Moscow discussed the guilty verdict passed to the Rostov journalist Sergey Reznik, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. The speakers said that the guilty verdict to the journalist and blogger Sergey Reznik caused their bewilderment.

Today, the Makhachkala Juma-Mosque has hosted the all-republic's mawlid condemning the caricatures on Prophet Muhammad. The participants have treated the publication of caricatures as a provocation aimed at strengthening anti-Muslim sentiments.

Today, two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Armenia perished on the border with Azerbaijan, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia. One Armenian soldier was heavily wounded.