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In Chechnya, judges rule under orders received from Ramzan Kadyrov's administration; and there is completely no judiciary in the republic, Saidi Yangulbaev, a retired Russian federal judge, has commented on the refusal of the Chechen Supreme Court (SC) to transfer his wife, Zarema Musaeva, under house arrest.

On Friday (February 11), Azerbaijani militaries shelled residential buildings in the communities of Tagavard and Karmir Shouka (Red Bazaar), in which they damaged windows, roofs and walls; however, the situation in the villages is calm, Gegam Stepanyan, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsperson, has informed.

Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information of Chechnya, has treated the statement about the impending assassination attempt on Vladimir Osechkin as absurd. In his turn, Osechkin thanked the Chechens, who had informed him about the prepared attempt, and invited Adam Delimkhanov to personally discuss the claims against the work of human rights defenders.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has ignored the words of Zarema Musaeva, who asked to place her under house arrest due to her poor health. The arrest of Musaeva, who suffers from severe diabetes, is against Russian law, her son Abubakar Yangulbaev has stated.

About 400 posts with the hashtag # YapekhotinetsKadyrova (“I’m Kadyrov’s infantryman) appeared on Instagram as part of a flash mob launched by an assistant to the leader of Chechnya. The petition for the Ramzan Kadyrov’s resignation has already gained 200,000 signatures.

A public prosecutor requested the court to sentence Salekh Magamadov to 8.5 years and Ismail Isaev to 6.5 years of imprisonment in a case on aiding and abetting a militant. The prosecutors’ version has not been even indirectly confirmed, and there is no evidence that the brothers were familiar with the militant, their advocate notes.

The Armenian military forces shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani army in Kelbadjar, there are no casualties in personnel, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

Relatives did not try to kidnap a native of Dagestan in Moscow, her father said. According to him, the parents did not have conflicts with their daughter, since it was not planned to force her to marry.

The Georgian cities of Gori, Zugdidi and Telavi has hosted protest actions demanding better living conditions, abolition the increase of electricity tariffs and decrease taxes. The Georgian opposition has reproached authorities for their inefficient countering social problems.

The increase in the count of non-combat losses in military units indicates systemic problems in the Armenian Army, while authorities refuse to involve the civil society in protecting militaries' rights, the participants in the discussion held in Yerevan have stated.

The approval of the new law "On Media" has strengthened Azeri authorities' control over media and restrictions on their professional activities, journalists have stated. Their concerns are shared by international structures.

In Chechnya, persecution of people involved in occultism usually resorts to public scolding, while in Ingushetia and North Ossetia there have been no persecutions of fortune-tellers in recent years, lawyers and human rights defenders have pointed out in their comments on the version voiced out by a relative of Rimma Gagloeva, a missing resident of North Ossetia, who was engaged in fortune telling and removing an evil eye.

The father of Ilya Smolin, who was kept at the temporary isolation facility (known as the IVS) in the city of Yeysk, has learned about his son's death from strangers; for more than a week, he was not allowed to examine his son's body in the morgue.

Residents of the village of Kakashura, demanding to allocate land to them, achieved a meeting with Batyr Emeev, the Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan. If the land plot, which caused the villagers' conflict with district officials, is free, it will be transferred to villagers, Batyr Emeev has promised.

The book, prepared with the support of the Heinrich Böll Fund, tells about lives of the women, whose example can inspire and destroy stereotypes about the hard situation of women in the society of Northern Caucasian.

The Dagestani police detained a man for murder in Makhachkala. According to video of the interrogation, the detainee said that he had avenged the murdered man for his “Muslim sister.”

Advocates requested the court to transfer Zarema Musaeva to house arrest due to her state of health, but the court dismissed the request, although an ambulance was called again at night, advocate Arkady Shindyapin said. Abubakar Yangulbaev, a son of Zarema Musaeva, notes that the court is under pressure.

The authorities of Azerbaijan have not yet concluded a peace treaty with Armenia, and therefore, residents of the border villages fear the resumption of combat actions. The situation is calm in the Tovuz, Terter, and Agdjabadi Districts, but restoration work is going slowly, and there are problems with communications, local residents say.

According to Ibragim Yangulbaev, his father and mother, as well as other relatives, are not involved in the 1Adat Movement” and are not its leaders. He pointed to contradictions in the Chechen authorities’ accusations against members of the Yangulbaev family.

Rimma Gagloeva, a disappeared resident of North Ossetia, was engaged in fortune-telling and removing the evil eye effect, which could be the reason for her disappearance, suggests her nephew Giorgi Gagloev. According to him, a video appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov concerning the disappearance gained over half a million views, but there was no reaction from the leader of Chechnya.