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Elnur Guseinzade, an Azerbaijani prisoner of war, has served his two-year sentence and asked to send him not to Azerbaijan, but to a third country, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

Priest David Durglishvili from the village of Nikozi was placed to an isolation ward in Tskhinvali after his detention near the border with South Ossetia, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) reported.

A case against Noureddin Ismayilov, the editor-in-chief of the website "Teref.az", charged with calls against the state after reprinting articles criticizing top managers of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "AzerEnergy", was transferred to the Baku court. The journalist treats the charge against him as unfounded.

250 researchers from the Yerevan State University (known as YeSU) will lose part of their income and other 200 will lose their jobs due to the fact that the Armenian Cabinet of Ministers revised the financing of scientific projects, scientists state. They believe the government's decision contradicts the law and threaten to hold protest actions.

Today, Khizri Shikhsaidov, Speaker of the People's Assembly of Dagestan, has paid a return visit to Magomed Daudov, the chairman of the Chechen parliament, to discuss the issue of the border between the two republics.

Chechen historians said that there is no point in re-fix the borders of Chechnya with the Stavropol Territory once again, all the more, it is impossible to conduct such experiments in Southern Russia, given the mentality of the nations living in the region.

National minorities in Azerbaijan are restricted in their right to express opinions and face difficulties in learning in their native language, while Talyshes and Lezgins are unreasonably accused of separatism, a Committee of the Council of Europe (CoE) has stated. The restrictions on the rights of national minorities are a consequence of the general restriction of democratic freedoms in Azerbaijan, Togrul Djuvarly, a political analyst, has stated.

Ovannes Galstyan, an Armenian Film Director, has demanded to resume funding the film "My Granma's Curls". He stopped his first hunger strike last December after meeting the Minister of Culture, but resumed it due to non-fulfilment of agreements.

The persons accused of plotting terror acts in Ingushetia and at the French Embassy in Moscow were denied initiating a case on the abuse of official powers by law enforcers.

Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity" Movement, and Abbas Guseinov, an activist of the movement, are on a hunger strike in Gobustan Prison in protest against torture.

Aslan Balkarov, the DPS (road-and-patrol service) inspector, who was wounded in the attack committed in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) on January 25, has died in hospital on Monday, February 4, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

Amil Mamedzade, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), detained on Monday, February 4, 2019, has been sentenced to 25 days of arrest. The fate of activist Elnur Djabbarly is not yet known, said Ilham Gusein, member of the PFPA's Presidium.

Seven former militaries of the Ukrainian battalion "Donbass", detained during a special operation in December in Tbilisi, have been released on bail, said Semyon Semenchenko, an MP of the Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Assembly) of Ukraine.

Citizens of South Ossetia will no longer be able to cross the border with Georgia on their passports; they will have to get a special pass, the South-Ossetian KGB (Committee for State Security) has announced.

Bekkhan Yusupov reported that he had been detained because of storing rounds, and not due to suspicions of homosexuality. The man accused the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" of slander. Residents of Chechnya expressed their scepticism about the Bekkhan Yusupov's public speech.

In the Achkhoi-Martan District, the authorities have forbidden gathering wild garlic on the territories adjacent to Ingushetia until January 31, reported residents of Chechnya. The ban was introduced on January 1 because of operational activities, reported the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Azerbaijani positions in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 25 times within the last 24 hours, including those deployed in two border villages, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

A formal reason for her dismissal was a minor error in her tax declaration, while the real reason was her criticism of the Ministry of Public Health (MPH) for insufficient supply of patients with medications, she has stated.

Residents of the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia have held an action in Birkiani against the construction of the "Khadori-3" hydropower plant (HPP). They have refused to resettle because of the construction, even if they are offered better conditions.

Two attacks based on intolerance to non-traditional sexual orientation committed in Georgia; two suspects were detained, the police said.