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Users of the Instagram have expressed outrage at the information about dirty mattresses and bedspreads, issued to patients in the infectious diseases ward of the hospital of the dwelling settlement of Maisky and stated that a similar picture can be observed in hospitals in other cities of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

Officials voice contradictory statements about the reasons for sending a humanitarian contingent to Syria, state Armen Ashotyan, the deputy chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). The "Sasna Tsrer" Party described sending of armed forces to Syria as "colonial dependence on Russia."

During the week of February 4-10, 2019, one person was killed in 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 teenager reported to the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Azerbaijan that he had found a grenade in an abandoned front garden in a yard of a house in Ganja Avenue in Baku.

27 children from Russia aged from four to 13 years were brought to Moscow from Iraq. The children had been kept in a prison in Baghdad, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated.

Astrakhan picketers, supporting Anastasia Shevchenko have demanded to release her and stop political repressions.

At the promotion of the Kremlin, Kadyrov is advocating the idea of building a road and a border crossing point from Chechnya to Georgia in order to ensure control by Russian intelligence services over the Pankisi Gorge, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have suggested.

Armenia has agreed to send a humanitarian contingent in order to soften the existing disagreements with Russia, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The statements of Cossack activists about the return of the Naursky and Shelkovskoy Districts of Chechnya to the Stavropol Territory are an attempt to earn political points on this topic, as it was in the 1990s, scientists assert, noting that the border is fixed, and the authorities have no disagreement on the issue.

Vladikavkaz lacks mosques, the North-Ossetian Muftiate has reported, commenting on the petition for the transfer of the building where the planetarium is located, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM). Believers think that the religious building should be used for its intended purpose, but the solution of this issue should not go beyond the republic.

The head of Azerbaijan has ordered to increase the minimum (floor) wage in the country by almost 40% starting from March 1 – up to 180 manats instead of 130. Economists are confident that the wage increase will be followed by growth of taxes on entrepreneurs and fines.

Law enforcers have tortured Abdul Magomedov, a resident of Khasavyurt, with electric current, trying to knock out a confession to the creation of an illegal armed formation (IAF), the defence has stated. Other confessions to this case were given by two local residents.

Georgia has unsuccessfully tried to raise the issue of the death of Archil Tatunashvili, who was detained on the border. Tskhinvali complained about reports of Georgian mass media on the humanitarian catastrophe in South Ossetia.

During the past 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani troops were attacked for 20 times, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

The participants of the action in Tbilisi have stated that Azerbaijanis' protests will continue until the monument to Mikhail Avagyan, a veteran of the Nagorno-Karabakh War, erected in Akhalkalaki, is dismantled.

The Russian-language version of the "Aravot" is excluded from the register of violators of the law on the protection of personal data, the editor-in-chief of the online edition has reported. Earlier, the editorial board received three demands from the "Roskomnadzor" to exclude the name of a Russian businessman from publications.

The public council of the Nasyr-Kort Mosque in Ingushetia has called on the Muslims' Coordination Centre (MCC) of Northern Caucasus to stand up for the book interpreting the Koran in the translation of the philosopher, Elmir Kuliev, which the prosecutor's office demanded to treat as an extremist one.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is unaware of the real situation in the republic: in spite of his orders, the problems of Kenkhi residents remain unresolved, said Ramazan Djalaldinov, a local resident.

The court in Magas refused to satisfy the complaint about the investigators' refusal to provide the case files about the attack on journalists on the Chechen-Ingush border in 2016, Andrei Sabinin, a lawyer from the "Agora" has stated.

The Kremlin closes its eyes to the events involving people from Ramzan Kadyrov's retinue; therefore, the incident with Murad Saidov in the Crimea will not affect the relationships of Russian top leaders to the head of Chechnya, political analysts believe.