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Djambulat Umarov, the Chechen Minister for National Policy, has denied the fact that residents of the republic had been detained for disseminating a collage with Kadyrov. However, the minister's slip of the tongue about the need to "warn a dozen troublemakers and scoundrels" means that there had really been detentions of Chechen residents, the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Three residents of Chechnya have spoken at a sitting of the Legal Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and told their personal stories about human rights violations in the republic. Oleg Orlov, a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", told the PACE that a totalitarian regime has been established in Chechnya.

Mikhail Ignatiev, the head of Chuvashia, was expelled from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party after his call to "crackdown" journalists for criticism, while the demand of the head of Chechnya to "kill, imprison and intimidate" authors of negative materials was ignored by the above ruling party.

The December 2019 "Employment and Unemployment Rating in the Russian Federation", published by the Federal State Statistics Service, has shown that in the last quarter of 2019, the worst employment situation was observed in the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Temirlan Machalikashvili, a resident of Pankisi, was shot dead by law enforcers, when he tried to detonate a grenade; the inquiry into the alleged abuse of powers has been stopped, the Prosecutor's Office (PO) of Georgia has stated today.

Narek Malyan, the head of the "Veto" Socio-Political Movement, has been detained in Yerevan. His supporters are sure that the detention is politically motivated.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that in 2008, Anatoly Ataev, a resident of Krasnodar, was unfoundedly left in SIZO (pre-trial prison) after a court had pronounced a decision to release him. The ECtHR obliged the Russian authorities to compensate the man for moral harm.

Cultural workers, scientists, journalists, human rights defenders, and activists signed an open letter to the administration of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with the demand to release Ingush activist Zarifa Sautieva. The appeal posted on January 27 was signed by 171 people.

Djambulat Umarov, Chechen Minister of National Policy, declared inaccurate the reports about the detention of 25 Chechen residents for disseminating a photo collage with Ramzan Kadyrov. Meanwhile, the Chechen minister confirmed the authorities' willingness to "teach a lesson" to people disseminating such photo collages, residents of the republic note.

Aslan Bzhaniya, the leader of the Abkhaz opposition, is ready to present to the Prosecutor's Office the evidence of his poisoning before the presidential election in 2019. Earlier, the General Prosecutor's of Abkhazia questioned the version about the poisoning of the politician.

Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has filed a claim to the Baku Administrative Court. In his claim, the politician asks the court to oblige the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to issue a passport for him.

The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has discussed the situation with political prisoners in Azerbaijan. Its participants called on the PACE to adopt a resolution condemning human rights violations, basing it on the report of Thorild Sunna Evarsdottir, the PACE's Rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

The Akhmat Kadyrov Fund has held a large-scale charity action of spreading grocery sets to needy people in Chechnya. Instagram users have noted that needy families in different parts of the republic are deprived of even such help.

The girl-performer of the resonance dance in Vladikavkaz complained of threats received from people, who had forced her to apologize publicly; after which the police began a check.

The mothers and an aunt of the three Derbent residents accused of terrorism, who have reported about torture, resumed their protest action in Makhachkala.

On far-fetched charges, Abdulmumin Gadjiev is prosecuted for his professional activities; the case against him should be closed, well-known Russian journalists have stated in their appeal in support of their colleague from the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly and website.

According to materials found by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", two residents of Chechnya, who looked like their brothers included in the "execution list," misled the Russia's Ombudsperson.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan dismissed an appeal filed by journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev and left him in custody until March 13.

In Azerbaijan, opposition candidates faced obstacles to their meetings with voters, and their campaign materials were spoiled, the "Musavat" Party claimed.

Activist Mher Pogosyan followed the example of Alexander Kananyan and declared a hunger strike with the demand to stop the construction of small hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) in two districts of Nagorno-Karabakh.