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Guram Palavandishvili, the leader of the “Georgian Idea” movement, broke an installation erected by LGBT activists in a Tbilisi park. He is detained, and a criminal case on harassment is instituted.

The Armenian authorities will accept the proposal of the French President to submit the conflict in Syunik to the UN Security Council only if the situation gets out of control, but they fear the Russia's reaction, the Armenian analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Four military columns of Azerbaijani Army accompanied by peacemakers drove along the Lachin Corridor and one - along the Shusha-Kadjar route and back, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The class teachers at a Sochi school, with reference to the instruction of the city authorities, have been charged with monitoring the "suspicious" content on the pages in the social networks of their pupils starting from the 7th form, one of the teachers said. Olga Medvedeva, the head of the education and science department of the Sochi Mayoralty, said that no instructions on monitoring pupils' pages had been sent to schools.

Those who suffered from law enforcers' actions during the harsh dispersal of the rally in Tbilisi in June 2019, have asked, in their appeals to the Embassies of the European Union (EU) and the United States, not to allow applying amnesty to those responsible for the use of violence on the so-called "Gavrilov's Night".

The maps created in the USSR fail to unambiguously fix the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in the Black Lake area in the Syunik Region, the experts on the Caucasus interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will not enter into confrontation with Azerbaijan over Armenia, but one can hope that the Kremlin will persuade Baku to pull back the troops, the Yerevan political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Nikol Pashinyan, the acting head of the Armenian Government (Premier), has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to provide assistance, including military one, in resolving the situation in the Syunik Region on the border with Azerbaijan.

Mansur Ismailov, a native of Chechnya, who was deported from France, has received emergency medical care at a hospital.

Today, a 45-year-old Alan Djaparidze, who was detained at the border on January 10, has been handed over to the Georgian authorities, the KGB of South Ossetia reports. The Tskhinvali District Court found the man guilty of illegally crossing the border and sentenced him to a year of suspended imprisonment, the South-Ossetian KGB reported on its Facebook page.

An official appeal has been sent to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in connection with the penetration of Azerbaijani soldiers into the territory of Armenia, Tigran Avinyan, acting Deputy Prime Minister, reports today.

By his statements about Khabib Nurmagomedov, Ramzan Kadyrov provoked disputes between Chechens and Dagestanis, and the desire of the leader of Chechnya to stage a demonstration fight is inappropriate during the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Instagram users note.

While commenting on the ban imposed by the “Rospotrebnadzor” (Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare) on holding a traditional carnival in Gelendzhik, social media users noted that tourists from all over Russia came to the city for festivities and the cancellation of the outdoor event looked unjustified.

Nikolai Chuyanov, a lonely World War II veteran, did not agree to an offer of the Tbilisi City Mayoralty to move to a nursing home, made after the “Caucasian Knot” had posted a video about the veteran’s complaints about his housing conditions. Officials from the Tbilisi City Mayoralty explain the city budget may not purchase the repairs of private housing.

Azerbaijani border guards are changing their deployment in the Lachin and Kelbadjar Districts bordering on Armenia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan announced in response to accusations that Azerbaijani soldiers took up positions in the Syunik Region of Armenia.

After requests from human rights defenders and a letter from the UN profile committee, officials from the Georgian Ministry for Public Health visited an orphan boarding school in the town of Ninotsminda to check information about child abuse.

The Azerbaijani experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent have commented on the situation around the Syunik Region, while their opinions on Baku's intentions were different.

The unleashing of an armed conflict in the Syunik Region is unlikely; the Armenian party is trying to resolve the incident by diplomatic means, the Armenian military experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The law enforcers, arrested within the Inal Djabiev's death case, refuse to eat for five days and demand to meet South-Ossetian MPs and the Ombudsperson. They claim that investigators had failed to prove their guilt, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has stated today.

A deputy head of a ROVD (District Interior Division) of Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) is suspected of beating up a detainee. Three persons were beaten up at once; they were forced to confess to a theft, human rights defenders assert.