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The death of Igor Gal, Russia's advisor on public health matters, and his wife was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, the South-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has suggested. Their death occurred amid a scandal with the supply of medicines, a "Caucasian Knot" blogger has noted.

The Chechen natives living in France and Germany, who helped the alleged killer of blogger Imran Aliev, have confessed to Tumso Abdurakhmanov that they were unaware about the aim of their fellow countryman's arrival in Europe.

The advocates of Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, failed to achieve disqualification of Judge Armen Danielyan. In their opinion, the judge's decision to return Kocharyan to SIZO (pre-trial prison) proves the judge's impartiality.

Azerbaijani blogger Mekhman Guseinov accused Faradj Guliev, the leader of the "National Revival Movement" Party, of trying to bribe him to withdraw his candidacy at the early parliamentary elections to be held on February 9.

Users of Chechen social media found it unethical to post a video in which members of the Orstkhoi teip (family clan) were using sticks to beat their relative who did not return a debt to his creditors. Such a video can provoke relatives and other debtors to abuses, suggest residents of Chechnya.

According to a video posted on YouTube, in his conversation with natives of Chechnya, Dmitry Kuprin, a resident of the Chelyabinsk Region, apologized for posting his video with offensive attacks against the Chechen people.

During the week of January 27-February 2, 2020, no one fell victim to the 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.

In Makhachkala, victims of violence who lived in the "Warm House on the Mountain" shelter were not forced to work for free and communicate with journalists. A request for the eviction of women is related to the violation by them of the shelter rules, announces the administration of the shelter in response to the article prepared and posted by Svetlana Anokhina.

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.