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Actions in support of Alexei Navalny have covered several cities of the Stavropol Territory. Residents of Stavropol, the capital of the Territory, are now more active in protests, the marchers have noted.

Russia restricts civil rights and freedoms; activists and oppositionists are persecuted for political reasons, the Volgograd residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have explained their participation in the January 23 protest action.

One of the attackers on the North-Ossetian journalist has been detained; the other has fled abroad and will be put on the wanted list through the Interpol, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has announced.

Law enforcers must figure out how a 14-year-old girl from Derbent got married, Instagram users demand.

Russian law enforcers are detaining the participants of the unauthorized rally in Moscow in support in Alexei Navalny, acting harshly and using rubber batons. The force is applied to both men and women. Among the detained protesters is the spouse of the opposition leader Yulia Navalnaya, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The decrease in the number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan does not yet indicate any change in authorities' policies towards their opponents, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent believe.

The governor Vladimir Vladimirov should have taken a neutral position, and not broadcast calls against the participation of minors in the actions of supporters of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Instagram users have pointed out. They have stated that children are endangered not by protest organizers, but by those who use force against protesters.

The peacemakers have accompanied a group of 131 refugees from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. The total number of residents who have returned to the region has reached 50,521, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Employees of the budget-funded organizations in Chechnya have faced the demand to get vaccinated against coronavirus; otherwise they risk losing their jobs. Some of them have stated that they had made the decision to reject vaccination, and are ready to quit at their bosses' demand.

A minor girl, detained by law enforcers in Chechnya, has been released and sent home to Derbent, Shamil Khadulaev, a member of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, has informed. The child was held for more than three months without explaining anything to relatives, her mother has stated.

South-Ossetian authorities have tried to blame the opposition for the attack on the journalist, Ruslan Totrov, in Vladikavkaz, the widow of Inal Djabiev has stated.

Activists of the Stavropol Alexei Navalny's office and local farmers are preparing solo pickets, despite the police's warnings and detentions of Alexei's supporters.

The police drew a protocol against Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash on the organization of an unsanctioned action. The lawyer himself treated the above as a law enforcers' attempt to deprive local Alexei Navalny's supporters of legal aid, since the lawyer promised to defend them.

One of the men who participated in the beating of Ruslan Totrov is a "close associate" of South-Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov, the journalist reports today.

In the regions of the Southern Federal District (SFD) and the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), supporters of oppositionist Alexei Navalny decided to hold marches and pickets in his support despite the fact that the law enforcement bodies warned the activists about responsibility for unsanctioned protests.

47-year-old combat engineer Azer Sultanov was injured while demining a place at the construction site of a railway in the Djebrail District, the "Sputnik Azerbaijan" reports today. This is the fifth case of a mine explosion in January in the territories that came under the control of Azerbaijan as a result of the autumn escalation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, the "Sputnik Azerbaijan" reports.

Evgeny Kochegin, the head of Navalny's Volgograd office, and activist Maria Khudoyarova were taken to the police station, Sergey Kunitsky, an advocate, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Adam Elzhurkaev, a theologian, has scolded an 80-year-old woman from the village of Assinovskaya for her many years of witchcraft, as follows from the report of the Chechen TV channel. Some Instagram users have criticized government officials for publicly reprimanding the elderly woman.

The opposition in Armenia is not strong enough to force Nikol Pashinyan to resign, Armenian political analysts have stated.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which found Russia involved in human rights violations in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, will help in speeding up the consideration of the armed conflict at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and will make it possible to achieve a decision at the UN International Court of Justice on the return of the lost territories, the Georgian human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.