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Artyom Zdunov, who was appointed on February 7 the chair of the Dagestani government, has voiced a promise to return the businesses to the legal field and fight violations in the construction sphere. An attempt to sharply break the corruption in the system will result in serious conflicts and is unlikely to succeed, experts suggest.

The idea of the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov to build an international terminal at the "Magas" Airport has found support, after six years, at the Russia's Ministry of Transports. The Ingush authorities, who justified the need to build the terminal by the increasing number of people travelling abroad and the need for the republic's economic progress, has convinced the head of the Qatar Investment Agency to finance the project.

The Georgian MPs have adopted in the first reading a draft of legislative amendments that provide for the creation of the reserve service. The implementation of this initiative depends on the funding, military experts believe.

Users of social networks from Dagestan have supported the arrests of high-ranking officials, urging not to stop the fight against corruption after the presidential election in Russia. The Senators and MPs, who themselves occurred under attack due to staff cleansing, refused to support the former head of Dagestan.

The video posted on the YouTube by the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) shows houses of Dagestani high-ranking officials, where in the gardens vintage bird cages can be seen, and animal skins covering the rails. The video also shows the confiscation of golden pistols.

Dodo Gugeshashvili, a retired colonel, has been wounded in an armed attack in Tbilisi; her son was killed, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

A hunting rifle was found on February 6 next to the body of Khasan Evkurov. His relatives have stated an accident caused by careless handling the rifle.

The body of Alexander Korobeinikov with a gunshot wound was found today in Stavropol.

Ali Umarov, a resident of Makhachkala, whose kidnapping was claimed by his relatives, is at the police station, Magomedov, his advocate, has stated, adding that the whereabouts of Rasul Tatamgadjiev, an Umarov's friend, has not yet been established.

Relatives of nine residents of Ingushetia, sentenced to 5 to 19 years in prison within the case of the so-called "Ordjonikidze Jamaat", have treated the verdict as "lawlessness"; and the defence intends to appeal against it.

The investigation into the case on the murder of Eradil Asanov, a resident of Terekli-Mekteb, was resumed, but the law enforcer who shot and killed him was not brought to justice. This was declared by Eradil Asanov's relatives at a picket in Makhachkala. 

Georgian policemen detained two men on suspicion of beating up three transgender women in Tbilisi.

By the monitoring outcomes, the OSCE mission found no violations in the Karabakh conflict zone.

The Moscow District Military Court has sentenced Shamil Nurmagomedov, a native of Dagestan, to seven years in prison on charges of financing the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court.

By the end of January, the number of residents of Chechnya, who are banned from leaving Russia because of their debts, amounted to 22,000, the Federal Court Marshal Service (FCMS) has reported. Some local residents find the restriction disproportionate to the debt amounts.

The Qatar's Minister of Energy is interested in the proposal of the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov to attract investors to the construction of mini hydraulic power plants (mini-HPPs) in the republic. In will allow unloading the Ingush energy system, Musa Tsitskiev, the acting head of the republic's committee for industry and energy, explained to the "Caucasian Knot".

After he was denied the refugee status in Ukraine, the former president of Georgia may be extradited to his homeland, if he continues his oppositional activities in Ukraine, Stanislav Fedorchuk, a Ukrainian political analyst, believes. Extradition of Saakashvili will cause disapproval of the West and trigger mass protests in Georgia, Nika Chitadze and Gela Vasadze, Georgian political analysts, are convinced.

About 1000 militaries and 100 units of equipment took part in combat firing at the Russian military base in Abkhazia, the Southern Military District (SMD) has reported.

On February 8, the European Parliament plans to discuss the arrest of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". The HRC has handed the materials on the Titiev's case to the European Parliament, said Oleg Orlov, a member of the board of the HRC "Memorial".

Experts of the Azerbaijani National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) found three grenades, two packages with explosives and an artillery shell in a village of the Agstafa District.