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The organizers of the forum on the return of direct elections in Northern Caucasus have been notified that they will not be able to hold the event in Pyatigorsk on January 27. The forum will be held later in Moscow in a different format, the organizers – the Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations (RCCN) and the Interregional Public Organization "New World" – have decided.

The Makhachkala police have instituted a criminal case under article "deliberate destruction or damage of property" in connection with the arson of a car belonging to the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Dagestan.

When detained by border guards near the Psou River, a man claimed he fled from slavery in Abkhazia.

Policemen have drawn up a protocol on an administrative offense committed by the resident of North Ossetia, who, in their opinion, gave a cigarette to the child, the North-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has pronounced a guilty verdict to a resident of Rostov-on-Don who was detained at the airport on the way to militants in Afghanistan.

Specialists run off the water in the October Revolution Canal, and no dead body was found there, reported Murad Aliev, Vice-Mayor of Makhachkala.

17 years ago, in exchange for the old housing, the family of Tatiana Alkhazova, a resident of Nalchik, with one of members disabled since childhood, was granted an apartment from the authorities with windows filled with plywood and without heating. Over the years, the family has not succeeded in bringing housing into proper condition, Tatiana Alkhazova stated.

After threats against the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has urged the Russian authorities to end the harassment of rights defenders in Northern Caucasus.

The authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have extended the programme of subsidizing tariffs for electricity and gas supply for residents of northern border villages. Local residents treat the programme as a great support. Besides, in border villages, shelters are under constructions to protect people from shelling.

Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) are not intended for combat operations, and their supply to Azerbaijan does not violate the balance of forces in the Karabakh conflict zone, Armenian observers stated. The experts treated the delivery as a Russia's attempt to hinder the settlement of the conflict.

In Grozny, public employees and students reported about an unusually early start of the subbotnik (voluntary Saturday work) season. Officials explained the organization of mass participation of people in public works by preparing the capital of Chechnya for the opening of the "Veduchi" mountain resort. 

Shamil Nurmagomedov, a native of Dagestan, accused of financing terrorism, urged his brother to flee from the territory controlled by the "Islamic State" (IS) and not participate in "turmoil among Muslims." This was evidenced by a fragment of brothers' correspondence read out today by the state prosecutor.

The attack on the Ingush office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" failed to disrupt the work of rights defenders in Ingushetia, said Timur Akiev, the head of the Ingush representative office of the HRC "Memorial". He has noted that the authorities did not offer to move to another premise, but rights defenders' friends helped to resume the work.

In Khasavyurt, the court has sentenced Naida Shaikh-Akhmedova, returned from Iraq to Grozny in the autumn of 2017, to 12 years of imprisonment, reports a source from the law enforcement bodies.

The court has sentenced Gezyal Bairamly, Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), to three years in prison on charges of smuggling. Nureddin Mamedli, a PFPA representative, and Samir Kazymly, a rights defender, indicate political motives of the prosecution.

A video, showing how a small child sitting on knees of an adult smokes a cigarette, was posted on the Internet. The Prosecutor's Office made a decision to check the family of the child and the conditions for his upbringing.

Today, members of the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" have got an SMS-message and a phone call with a demand to stop their activities. An unidentified man informed the rights defenders that the arson of the car was a warning.

Suleiman Kerimov, Russian Senator (Member of the Federation Council) from Dagestan, has returned to Nice after his trip to Russia, said the city prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre.

In Makhachkala, unidentified people set fire to a car of the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". The car was used by a HRC's advocate for travelling to Chechnya. This was reported by Oleg Orlov, a member of the board for the HRC "Memorial".

Over the past day, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire 112 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijani reported.