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Rescuers of the Armenian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) were taken to the Kapan hospital after they had been blown up by a mine near the town of Megri.

The authorities of South Ossetia should supply hospitals with oxygen stations for treatment of coronavirus-infected patients in order to avoid a shortage of oxygen when the Transcaucasian highway is closed, Instagram users note.

The study of native languages in Moscow schools is being hampered by the lack of teachers and the specifics of the school group formation, members of the Moscow ethnic communities say. The activists proposed Mayor Sergey Sobyanin to organize distance learning in native languages and create a Centre for the Study of Languages of the Peoples of Russia.

During the search works conducted in the Karabakh conflict zone, remains of a resident of Gadrut and seven Armenian soldiers were found, the State Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed.

Peacemakers have escorted another group of refugees from Yerevan to Stepanakert. A total of 50,002 people have already returned to their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

In the conditions of a garbage collapse, the Makhachkala communal services have to load the garbage manually or with the help of tractors and take it out in ordinary trucks, since they have no specialized machinery, the "Makhachkala-1" municipal institution has explained. Both performers and officials are to blame for the garbage collapse, local residents assert.

Archil Parsalashvili, a resident of the village of Kurskaya, Stavropol Territory, who was beaten last December by law enforcers, has been discharged from hospital; however, as stated by his father Nikolai, he will not be able to fully recover his health.

On the eve of Alexei Navalny's return to Russia, Kurban Askandarov, a popular Dagestani blogger, had criticized Alexei, to which Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a well-known Chechen blogger, has treated in his new video this fact as an example of deliberate discrediting of Navalny in the Caucasus.

Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh should be able to drive to Armenia through the Azerbaijan-controlled territory, not only along the Lachin Corridor, protesters have claimed.

According to the list of the deceased soldiers and officers released by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD), 2855 military men killed during the combat actions for Nagorno-Karabakh in the autumn of 2020 were buried. Other fifty military personnel are declared to be missed in action.

Today, the Khimki City Court has arrested oppositionist Alexei Navalny until February 15, his press secretary and advocate report.

Today, Bektemir Salikhov, a member of the Alburikent village community, has come to a picket in the centre of Makhachkala.

The detention under a far-fetched pretext of Alexei Navalny, who was not hiding from anyone, is a political reprisal, and the authorities must immediately release the oppositionist, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports today.

More 189 refugees arrived in Stepanakert from Yerevan, being accompanied by Russian peacekeepers. In total, 49,827 people returned to their homes after the end of the combat actions in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

Return of refugees, post-war victims, new agreement on the Karabakh conflict, and the human rights defenders' demand to investigate war crimes; coronavirus infection spread statistics in Caucasus; verdict in a case on attempted murder of a Chechen blogger in Sweden, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 11-17, 2021, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, the MPs from the "My Step" faction have opposed the discussion of the opposition's initiative, which criticizes the ceasefire agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh.

During the last 24 hours, remains of three military servicemen were found in the Karabakh conflict zone; thus, the total number of found bodies has reached 1238, the Karabakh rescuers have informed today.

During the week of January 11-17, 2021, no casualties or victims were recorded during 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.

Russian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, who was detained minutes after he arrived at the Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport from Berlin, the Amnesty International (AI) has stated, declaring Navalny a prisoner of conscience.

Yerevan policemen have detained David Bagdasaryan, an oppositionist, who took part in a motor rally demanding resignation of Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister.