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During the past 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in the villages on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 21 times, including with sniper rifles, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

On February 10, Ramzan Kadyrov appointed his nephew, Mayor of Grozny, Ibragim Zakriev, as the head of the administration of the head and government of Chechnya. Local residents treat Zakriev's new appointment to be a continuation of the cadre policy of the head of the region.

After the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) to increase the punishment under the embezzlement case, Gigi Ugulava, a former Mayor of Tbilisi and one of the leaders of the "European Georgia" Party, has voluntarily surrendered to law enforcers. Leaders of oppositional parties and movements treated the toughened verdict as a political repression and refused to negotiate with authorities.

On February 10, relatives of the Derbent residents, accused of terrorism, held a picket demanding to stop lawlessness in the republic. Female relatives complained about health problems of those arrested, and about the obstacles to visiting them.

Due to problems with documents and money, five children from Karachay-Cherkessia, who were taken out of Syria to Moscow on February 7, cannot fly home. Several families were separated due to the absence of documents.

On Monday, February 11, eight persons continued their solo pickets in Makhachkala in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, arrested under the case of financing terrorism. The articles written by him are very popular; they cause authorities' reaction, Magdi Kamalov, the founder of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, has stated.

Violations at vote tabulation and facts of pressure on observers are casting doubt on the honesty of the parliamentary elections held in Azerbaijan, the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) has stated.

The court has sentenced Gigi Ugulava, a former Tbilisi Mayor and one of the leaders of the "European Georgia" Party, to three years and two months in prison.

After escaping from Chechnya, Aminat Lorsanova, a native of Grozny, broke all ties with her relatives who tried to "expel genies from her" by beating her with sticks. Islam does not practice treatment for homosexuality, notes Magomedrasul Omarov, the head of the Dagestani information and analytical centre "Fikr".

An attack on Elena Milashina and Marina Dubrovina was related to their professional activities, notes human rights defender Oleg Kozlovsky, whose kidnapping in Magas has been under investigation for more than a year.

On February 9, a 19-year-old soldier of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army was found unconscious in one of the military units. He died in a hospital.

During the week of February 3-9, 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.

A brother and a sister brought among other children from Syria to Moscow have been handed over in Grozny to their relatives, the Chechen Ministry for National Policy has reported.

In the Georgian region of Kakheti, two young men have been detained on suspicion of abducting a 16-year-old girl with the aim to marry her, the police have reported.

During the vote at the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, there were cases of ballot stuffing (throws-in), the so-called "roundabouts", observers' inadmissibility and other significant violations, which prevent from establishing the true voters' will, the NGO leaders have stated.

A resident of Ingushetia killed his sister after a leak of the video of Isa Altemirov's detention into the Internet, Facebook and Instagram users have noted. It was the leak that has provoked him, commentators assert.

The Elista Mayoralty has refused to sanction a rally demanding to bring to justice Vladimir Shtygashev, the Speaker of the Khakassian Parliament, for his words about the Stalinist deportation of Kalmyks. The organizers of the action would not agree with officials' arguments.

Djakhangir Gadjiev, a former board chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijani (IBA), has referred in his appeal to the legislative amendments that had reduced prison terms under the articles imputed to him.

Since February 2, Azerbaijani soldiers fired about 1200 rounds at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

It is unacceptable for a Chechen to attack a woman and a guest, Instagram users said in response to statements of local publics asserting that republic's residents had supported the attack on Elena Milashina, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, and Marina Dubrovina, an advocate. The authorities are behind the attack, residents of Chechnya have suggested.