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The investigating authorities of Dagestan have launched a criminal investigation against a resident of the republic, suspected of involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL).

The Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is holding, jointly with Ukrainian militaries, an inspection in one of the districts of the Rostov Region. The aim of the inspection is to identify the extent of military activities in a certain area defined by the Ukrainian party, the Russia's MoD reports.

Erdogan Boz, a Turkish citizen of Circassian origin, has asked the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of Kabardino-Balkaria to help him to restore his right to visit his historic homeland.

Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the human rights organization "Mashr" and the head of the Republic's Public Oversight Commission (POC) has demanded from the public prosecutor of Ingushetia to check the information about the torture of the resident of Ingushetia Khadishat Albakova and other violations of her rights.

The arrested residents of Derbent Gamlet Kelbisov and Rustam Gabibov are kept in the temporary detention facility (IVS) of Vladikavkaz; for more than a month their advocates are not allowed to meet them, their relatives told rights defenders.

In 2014, the citation index of the "Caucasian Knot" more than doubled, which put the edition into the TOP-30 of most cited Russian Internet resources. According to its own data, the citation rate of the "Caucasian Knot" in 2014 was much higher.

The investigating authorities of Ingushetia have delivered to the court a criminal case of a 19-year-old local girl, accused of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) and storage of firearms.

The court in Grozny, which is considering the lawsuit lodged by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against the Committee against Torture (CaT) and an athlete Murad Amriev, has obliged the MIA to clarify the claims; and the court also requested materials of the check of the complaint about torturing the athlete, said Galina Arapova, the head of the Centre for Defence of Media Rights.

Activists of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have held a training session in Tbilisi for local residents, during which they told about the origins of the conflict of Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and about the methods of settling such conflicts in the world.

Aggravation of situation in the area of the Karabakh and Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict; attack on advocate in Dagestan; arrest of current and former vice-governors in Krasnodar Territory; start of sending Ukrainian refugees from Rostov Region to other regions of Russia; detention of 11 former employees of Georgia's MIA on suspicion of resonant past murder; public utility accidents in Volgograd Region, which left residents without heat and power, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 2-8, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The office of the presidential envoy of South Ossetia for the issues of the post-conflict settlement has turned to the observation mission of the European Union in Georgia asking the observers to clarify the health status of its three citizens, who are holding hunger strike together with prisoners of Gldani Prison.

During the week from February 2 to February 8, 2015, no victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were registered. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The need to change power in Armenia, including through early elections, was stated by the participants of the conference convened by Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party.

Artyom Khachatryan, Artak's brother, believes that Artak was beaten up because of his social and political activities, in particular, of his active participation in protests against the amendments to the Law "On Turnover Tax", said Artyom.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has opened a criminal investigation into the beating of supporters of the "Pre-Parliament" in the Kashatag District of the NKR, having qualified the crime as hooliganism.

On February 1-7, Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire in the conflict zone for more than 1200 times, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

Today, Artak Khachatryan, an activist of the initiative group "Termination", was kidnapped by unknown armed masked men, said Elinar Vardanyan, a member of the parliamentary faction of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party.

Today, the first anniversary of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi is marked by residents and guests of the city; the main events take place in the mountain and coastal clusters. On the occasion of the anniversary, the Sochi Airport plans to service 170 flights, including 20 charter ones.

The Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Stavropol Territory plans to launch a new website, where single Muslims could meet each other. Dating through social networks is not contradictory to the norms of Islam, said the Council of Muftis of Russia.

On February 6, the State Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Shusha held a presentation of the album by the Canadian photographer Grair Baze Khacheryan. The event was a part of the campaign dedicated to the centennial of the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923.