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Agents of the FSB and MIA have cordoned off the building of the Mayoralty of Derbent and are searching it, said a Dagestani law enforcement source. The city administration has confirmed the check conducted by power agents.

In Chechnya, the case of Magomed-Emin Baimurzaev, a resident of the Urus-Martan District, accused of aiding members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), has been sent to the court.

Two suspected militants were killed on Thursday, January 15, in a special operation conducted in the village of Novoselskoe, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. One of them has been pre-identified. Nobody of law enforcers suffered. According to local residents, power agents are still in the village carrying out checks.

Three residents of the Buynaksk and Derbent Districts of Dagestan have been detained and placed in custody on charges of an assault on money collectors in Moscow.

On January 13, in the Tsmakaog Community, Martakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), ethnographers organized a New Year party according to Karabakh ancient traditions. For the village, it was an important cultural event, which was supported by all the residents, the local administration has reported.

The Chechen authorities have made a decision to split the territory of the republic into three sectors and appoint in each of the sectors a top-ranking official in charge for the fight against militants.

The whereabouts of Magomed Aliev, a student of the Stavropol Medical Academy, accused of promoting terrorism, has been revealed: he is being kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 of Stavropol. This was reported by advocate Olga Kamilova.

After an armed incident with the Khadjiev family members, the Khalukhaev family members left their house. In Ingushetia, officials are working to reconcile the two families. This was reported by Ulan Evloev, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Teip Council under the leader of Ingushetia.

Unidentified persons have attacked the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Gudermes and assaulted its staff members with eggs. This was reported by Oleg Orlov, a member of the board of the HRC "Memorial".

The Middle East Cyber Army (MECA) has claimed the responsibility for hacking the website of the network "Carrefour" in Georgia. The very fact that the website has been hacked indicates that radical Islamists successfully run a "cyber jihad" around the world.

Monitoring of the OSCE on the contact line between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan has been interrupted because of a shot fired from the Azerbaijani side, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

Law enforcers have identified two persons killed in a shootout in the Gali District of Abkhazia, who allegedly participated in the kidnapping of a local resident. A regime of special operation is still valid in the Gali District, and the law enforcers are looking for other members of the grouping of kidnappers.

Residents of the town of Gyumri demand to extradite Valery Permyakov detained on suspicion of mass murder of Avetisyan family members to the Armenian side.

The incidents at the contact line with Azerbaijan involve special services of Turkey. This was stated by Yuri Mikaelyan, the Chairman of the Union of Karabakh war veterans. Aragats Mkrtchyan, the Deputy Chairman of the Union of Karabakh war veterans, explains the tension on the contact line by political instability in Azerbaijan.

Participation of Azerbaijani citizens in hostilities in Syria in the ranks of the ISIL recognized as a terrorist organization can contribute to the import into Azerbaijan of radical ideas and increase in the number of their supporters. This opinion has been expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The importance of preservation of monuments of history and architecture was stated by the regional leaders of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) who visited Derbent with the Russian presidential envoy to the NCFD at the background of the acts of vandalism, committed on January 8, 9 and 11; however, the agenda of the visit, according to information from official sources, did not assume the visiting of the sites of vandalism.

The Rostov NGO Union "Women of Don" has appealed against the decision of the Zamoskvorechye District Court of Moscow to recognize the legitimacy of the inclusion of the NGO in the register of "foreign agents".

The action of candle-lighting in memory of the executed Avetisyan family took place in the centre of the city of Gyumri. The casualties' bodies were placed into the church for the funeral service.

Officials of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) have denied the reports of their counterparts of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) that on January 11 the Azerbaijani Army suffered losses as a result of armed incidents.

Public prosecutors have challenged the verdict against Magomed Abdurashidov detained during a special operation in Dagestan who was sentenced to one year of imprisonment on charges of aiding and abetting militants.