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The press secretary of Vladimir Putin decided to familiarize himself with the material released by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" about the detention by Chechen law enforcers of 108 people, some of whom fell victim to extrajudicial executions later.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision that the Supreme Court of Russia should reconsider the unjust verdicts to Nikita Tikhonov and Yevgenia Khasis, sentenced for the murder of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.

More than 200 residents of Adjara, including those dissatisfied with the restrictions imposed because of the pandemic, forced migrants, and farmers affected by the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the Chorokh River, held at a protest action on February 15. The protestors request the government to solve their problems.

A Moscow court has ruled to arrest for three months Said Asadulaev, a Russian kickboxing champion, accused of involvement in the shootout in the "Moscow City" Business Centre in 2017.

The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, promised to launch, since March 1 on, systematic work on removing garbage dumps in the republic. Instagram users have urged authorities to move from promises to deeds and demonstrate a real solution to the problem of garbage collapse.

The Baku Human Rights Club has appealed to Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev, with a request to release 110 persons sentenced to various prison terms, including life imprisonment, the "Turan" News Agency reported on February 15.

The participants of the flash mob in support of Vladimir Putin, held on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, were involved there by deception, for which the organizers of the action should respond, social network users insist.

The action "Love is stronger than fear" was successful, despite the fact that not all of Navalny's supporters reacted thereto, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

The authors of the study of the situation with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) detection and treatment in Russia have placed Ingushetia and Kalmykia into the group of 13 best regions. Doctors of the Stavropol and Volgograd Regions are also successfully coping with the problem, while in other regions of the Southern Federal and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) the problem is expressed at an average level.

Svetlana Gannushkina and Ruslan Kutaev, human rights defenders, believe that the head of the Gudermes ROVD (District Interior Division) by scolding the guys for supporting the "Euroichkerians" has supported the federal government's confrontation vector with Western countries.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) upheld the verdict of guilty to journalist Polad Aslanov. The sentenced journalist claimed that he would continue his hunger strike in protest against the unjustified criminal prosecution.

The Azerbaijani armed forces use small- and large-calibre weapons to shell the immediate vicinity of the villages in the Syunik Region of Armenia, the Ombudsman of Armenia claims today. The head of the Agarak village community also reports about the shelling.

A resident of Buynaksk was detained in a case on transferring more than 370,000 roubles to support terrorist organizations, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

The newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" got copies of photographic tables prepared by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), which contained the information about the detention of 108 people, some of whom fell victim to extrajudicial executions. The "Novaya Gazeta" announced a release of an interview with a Chechen law enforcer who witnessed the executions.

Today, in Moscow, a judge has decided to withdraw from consideration a complaint about the arrest of Said-Muhammad Djumaev, since the defendant is in quarantine for coronavirus and is not able to participate in a court hearing.

Investigators have begun examining the circumstances of the death of Khalid Khuguev, an ethnic Chechen, who had been convicted on charges of organizing terror acts in Moscow back in 1999.

Peacemakers have escorted another group of refugees from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. The total number of returnees has made up 52,545 persons, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

During the week of February 8-14, 2021, no information was received about any casualties or wounded persons in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Policemen did not interfere with the "Love is stronger than fear" action in the Stavropol Territory, the activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have informed.

The head of the Gudermes ROVD (District Interior Division) has posted a video of his explanatory conversation with three young men, in which he criticized them for supporting the publications of the so-called "Euroichkerians", who criticize Chechen authorities.