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On January 20, the head of Dagestan treated the revision of the border with Chechnya as "a planned mandatory work." Social network users have noticed that Vladimir Vasiliev failed to answer the question about the concession of republic's territories.

Five servicemen from the Russian military base situated in Abkhazia fell victim to a fall of an armoured personnel carrier (APC) into the gorge, the Southern Military District has reported.

In Dagestan, Krasnodar Territory and Adygea, under the guise of charitable activities, members of the grouping raised money for Syrian militants, the FSB has reported.

The fingerprint examinations of the package with the narcotic drug, which, according to law enforcers, was seized from Oyub Titiev, were held with violations, the defence of the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has stated. The court did not question the expert who came to the session, but agreed to summon another expert for questioning.

The animated film "Armed Lullaby" has been included into the programme of the Berlin International Film Festival, to be held in February. The cartoon tells about the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict through the eyes of a child.

The meeting of the heads of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Paris has shown that the international community is trying to reanimate talks on the Karabakh conflict. However, the agenda failed to include issues related to violations of the armistice regime, political analysts have noted.

Police have detained a 21-year-old resident of Georgia, suspected of attacking employees of the Success Bar.

The singer, who had long doubted about coming to Dagestan, has reported that she is in the republic under reliable security. At the same time, new threats addressed to her and concert organizers have appeared in social networks.

Azerbaijani soldiers fired 1300 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

About 3000 people took part in the action organized by the opposition in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The demands to release the blogger Mekhman Guseinov and other political prisoners were voiced out at the rally.

The authorities of Chechnya have decided to wait for the court judgement to write off the republic residents' debts for supplies of natural gas to enter into legal force, the republic's Prosecutor’s Office (PO) announced on January 18. These debts began accumulating when Grozny "lay in ruins," Mansur Soltaev, a member of the Public Chamber, has explained.

The case of a resident of Grozny, sentenced to eight years in a colony within the case of helping members of the armed underground, has been sent for revision by a new composition of the court.

Within the past 24 hours, the Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire regime on the troops contact line for 20 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

The nine-storey building, where four humans perished in gas explosion, was gasified and inhabited, but has not yet been commissioned, the Tbilisi Mayoralty has confessed. The relevant gaps in the legislation must be eliminated, the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) has stated.

The ratification of the Armenia-European Union (EU) agreement is delayed by European countries because of the change of power in Yerevan, said Ararat Mirzoyan, the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament.

The court has refused to release Robert Kocharyan, the second Armenian President, and extended his arrest by two months. His defence has decided to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), stating that the prosecution of the second President of Armenia will affect the image of the country.

For the week that has passed since the start of the collection of information about those wishing to move to the Galanchozh District that is bordering on Ingushetia, about 200 families have declared their intention to return to the lands of their ancestral, said a source from the Ministry of Economic Development.

Activists have apologized to Arsen Mkrtchyan, an advocate of General Manvel Grigoryan, a former MP, for pouring paint on the advocate's car and preventing him from driving. However, they stated that the actions demanding to arrest of his client would be continued.

The collection of signatures to the demand of the resignation of the head of Ingushetia, cancellation of the border agreement with Chechnya and return of the Prigorodny District began during the two-week-long rally in Magas, the capital, where provocateurs tried to destroy lists with signatures, the initiators of the appeal to President Putin told the "Caucasian Knot".

The mentioning of protest sentiments in the demand to write off Chechen debts for supplied natural gas will allow other regions of Northern Caucasus to put forward similar claims, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.