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In the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia-Alania, two men have forced David Mamedov, a journalist, into a car and searched him by accusing him of spreading narcotic drugs, Mamedov himself announced on February 2. The local branch of the Russian Union of Journalists has called on the police to promptly investigate the attack on Mamedov.

The proposed amendment can help to restore the "Ingushes' right to the Prigorodny District" and become a "legal basis for resolving territorial disputes and establishing peace in the Caucasus," wrote the lawyer Ozdoev.

A protest action held by relatives of the soldier, who perished in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) turned into clashes with policemen, who wouldn't let the protesters into Yerevan. The Armenian Minister of Defence has persuaded the soldier's relatives to disperse by promising to revise the suicidal version of his death.

Imran Aliev, a blogger, was killed in France by a native of Chechnya linked with a well-known Chechen official, says the publication of Tumso Abdurakhmanov.

Arrests of oppositionists under administrative cases have frequented in Azerbaijan, while their custody conditions are inhuman, the oppositional National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) asserts.

The first city park has been opened in the city of Urus-Martan. In order to flatter their boss, Chechen officials call any new objects after Akhmat Kadyrov, Ramzan's father, local residents, dissatisfied with the initiative, told the "Caucasian Knot".

Since January 26, soldiers of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces fired about 1150 shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) reported on February 1.

Law enforcers stick to especially tough approach with regard to demonstrations critical of the government, and their actions are aimed at restricting the freedom of self-expression, rather than at responding to violations, the NGO "Georgian Democratic Initiative" (GDI) states in its report.

The positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

The Vladikavkaz female student, in support of whom a flash mob on the Facebook was organized, said that threats against her for public dancing have stopped.

The family of Moris Machalikashvili, who is accused of violence during protests in Tbilisi, insists on his conclusion a procedural deal in hope for his speedy release. Machalikashvili denies the charges against him and is ready to admit only that he had accidentally pushed a law enforcer, said his advocate.

The unprecedented level of tensions of the government with the Constitutional Court (CC) threatens the whole judicial system, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for Armenia have stated.

The additional state support promised by Vladimir Putin will help to remove some of the problems faced by the victims of the terror act on Beslan School No. 1. But it is also necessary to adopt a law on the status of terror act victims, the members of the "Beslan Mothers" committee have pointed out.

The managers of the Makhachkala shelter for domestic violence victims tried to drive into the street those of their clients, who refused to communicate with the media, Svetlana Anokhina, a Dagestani journalist, has reported.

The data of the "Rosstat" (Russian Federal Statistics Service) on the record low unemployment in Ingushetia and Chechnya should not be trusted, as it fails to take into account the informal employment, Professor Natalia Zubarevich has noted.

In 2019, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) revealed that officials at various levels received 244 bribes, said Sergey Bachurin, the head of the Main Department of the Russian MIA for Northern Caucasus, on January 31. "In 2019, the average bribe amounted to 245,000 roubles," the "Interfax-South" quotes him as saying. In total, 101 persons were prosecuted for bribery.

A visitor to the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala said that law enforcers tried, under far-fetched pretext, to detain him after the Friday prayer. Dozens of law enforcers took part in the raid at the mosque.

Djambulat Umarov, a Chechen Minister, has treated the version of rights defenders that by his words about the need to "warn a dozen of troublemakers and villains" he had indirectly confirmed the fact of detentions of the distributors of the photo collage with Kadyrov as inconsistent. At the same time, the minister refrained from asserting that there were no detentions.

Over the past three years, protests in defence of the freedom of assembly have been held in Volgograd in the form of solo pickets; the Mayoralty wouldn't sanction mass actions. Passers-by have supported two activists of the "Strategy-31" campaign, who came out today with posters to the city centre.

The General's Prosecutor Office of Russia refused to bring to court a case against the Khachaturyan sisters accused of killing their father and obliged the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to re-classify the charge as necessary defence, advocates report. The defenders have also noted that the above resolution "entails the termination of the criminal proceedings."