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The social network users, who have watched the video clip with the threats pronounced by Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP from Chechnya, against the Yangulbaev family, have reproached Delimkhanov for inciting hatred and reminded him of the Criminal Code.

Ilham Aslanoglu was unlawfully found guilty of libel, as he didn't express his position, but was only the presenter of the programme, in which the accusations were spoken out, the advocate has commented on the verdict.

The Yaroslavl Regional Court has left unchanged the amount of compensation for the moral harm suffered by Khasdin Murtazaliev, a native of Chechnya, who was tortured in a colony. Murtazaliev claimed 500,000 roubles, but the court approved the amount almost eight times smaller.

The members of the Yangulbaev family will be persecuted until they are killed, Adam Delimkhanov, a Russian State Duma MP from Chechnya, has stated on the Instagram. He also threatened with reprisals to people who would translate these words of his from the Chechen language into Russian.

The three servicemen of the Azerbaijani Army, who got lost in the Kalbadjar District, were taken to the central military hospital in Baku; there is no threat to their lives, the press service of the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The Ombudsperson of the Komi Republic and members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) have visited Khiramagomed Magomedov, a native of Dagestan, who had gone on a hunger strike in protest against his unjustified placement into the dungeon (punishment cell). On February 1, Magomedov was released from the dungeon; and he stopped his hunger strike, Eduard Bushuev, the POC head, has informed.

Today, the police and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Chechnya have issued a sharp condemnation of members of the Yangulbaev family, and top-ranking Chechen officials have addressed curses and insults to the family, threatening retribution. The indignation was provoked by the statements about Kunta-Khadji Kishiev.

At the Angers-based film festival, Milana Aguzarova won a prize as the best actress for her role in the film “Unclenching the Fists”, filmed in the Ossetian language.

The beating of Sarazhdin Sultygov, the co-chair of the “Mekh-Kkhel” public organization, may be connected with a public appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov concerning a dispute over border territories, the Ingush activist himself suggests.

The Kremlin does not have the opportunity and plans to delve into the validity of the claims against Ramzan Kadyrov in connection with the persecution of the Yangulbaev family: this is the prerogative of the law enforcement bodies, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov declares today.

In Saint Petersburg, passers-by supported the demand to stop the criminal proceedings in Chechnya against Zarema Musaeva and release her, says an activist, who held a picket in defence of the arrested woman.

Two natives of Chechnya have been detained in a case on an attack in Nazran on Sarazhdin Sultygov, the co-chair of the “Mekh-Kkhel” public organization. An attacker himself, a former OMON (riot police) fighter, has been put on the wanted list, a source reports.

Abubakar Yangulbaev has publicized his video message to his mother, Zarema Musaeva, who was arrested in Chechnya, expressing his confidence in her innocence. Visitors to the Dagestani Instagram public who have watched the video expressed their support for Yangulbaev and condemned the violence against the elderly woman.

The "DeGruyter", German academic publishing house, is starting to publish a 30-volume series of books "Europe and Circassia: 1760-1870". The new project contains many unique materials, Giorgi Mamuliya and Naima Neflyasheva, historians, have noted.

Fuad Ismailov, an activist, has been arrested in Azerbaijan for a month on charges of disobeying the police. He was detained the day after he tore off the Turkish flag in a public place, said Fikret Djafarli, the head of the public association "Investigating Centre against Torture".

In the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), law enforcers have detained two local residents suspected of an armed attack with shooting on a resident of Cherkessk, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the KChR has reported. Both suspects were detained on January 31.

In the city of Nazran, Sarazhdin Sultygov, a co-chairman of the NGO "Mekkh-Kkhel", was attacked in his apartment by two men.

On January 31, two solo pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the arrested journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet, were held in Makhachkala. Passers-by and motorists expressed their support for the picketers, Idris Yusupov, a journalist, has informed.

Children with developmental disorders need special conditions for acquiring professional skills, activists of the NGO "Life without Tears" (LwT) have stated and launched a project to train disabled children in professions.

The institution of criminal proceedings against Zarema Musaeva, who was forcibly taken to Chechnya, was expected, and the woman would be kept in Chechnya in order to put pressure on her son, says human rights defender Igor Kalyapin.