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According to unconfirmed information of the locals, power agents have blown up a blindage in the outskirt of the Dagestani village of Andi, which is under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime for the fifth day already.

Officials from the Makhachkala administration, acting under the Mayor’ order, have dismantled the decorative fence of the Dagestani Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), although the managers of the centre received no notifications. In response, the Mayoralty said that the fence had been installed illegally.

A telephone hotline, which can be used to report that a child was involved in a game, aimed at bringing to suicide, through a social network, has been opened by the Chechnya Prosecutor's Office (PO). The republic’s MIS has urged parents to check the content of their children's phones.

The number of citizens of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), included in the voter lists for the referendum on the new Constitution draft, has exceeded 102,000, but it is not final, said the Central Election Commission (CEC). The opinions of NKR residents, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" on the referendum diverged.

Activists of the All-Russian public organization "Green Patrol" have announced the creation of a regional branch in Volgograd. The organization will launch a "hotline" for receiving complaints from residents of Volgograd, and start fighting illegal dumps in the region, said activists of the "Green Patrol".

The advocates of Fariz Namazly, Yalchin Imanov, Nemat Kerimli and Fakhraddin Mekhtiev, defendants in the so-called "Nardaran case", have lodged an appeal complaint with a request to acquit their clients. The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has also urged to revise the verdict.

The Tagibekov brothers, natives of Dagestan, were detained on suspicion of illicit dealing with ammunition, after a search of their rented apartment in a Moscow suburb. According to the suspects and their relatives, the ammunition was planted in their apartment, the advocate of one of the brothers told the "Caucasian Knot".

A group of followers of the Shiite ritual of driving knives in heads has been revealed in Chechnya. Ramzan Kadyrov has held a preventive talk with the self-proclaimed Caliph of the community. The Chechen Muftiate has treated the beliefs of the group as contrary to Islam.

Not all those involved in the death of the Azerbaijani journalist Rasim Aliev were held accountable, because of biased inquiry into the case, the parents of the casualty believe; a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been sent on their behalf.

Abdurakhman Usmanov, accused for involvement in the IS, was not a supporter of radical Islam; and defence witnesses saw him in Turkey when, according to investigators, he was in Syria.

The fiction film "Aftermath", covering the story of Vitaly Kaloev, may be a speculation on his tragedy, said Chermen Dudaev, the Deputy Minister of Culture of North Ossetia. Kaloev himself noted that "young people could take useful lessons from the movie."

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the village of Andi, Botlikh District of Dagestan, on February 7, may extend for other 10 days. The CTO means document check only, said an employee of the district administration.

The personnel changes in the government of Dagestan had to do with the need to observe the principle of national quotas in the cabinet, the journalists Magomed Magomedov and Ramazan Rajabov believe. According to their version, the team of Sagid Murtazaliev could also affect the cadre reshuffling.

The Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the appeal of Bairam Mamedov, an activist of the “Nida” Movement, sentenced to 10 years in prison. His defence is preparing a cassation.

As of January 1, the debt of industrial enterprises of Dagestan for electricity exceeded the amount of 92.2 million roubles, while the debt of non-industrial sector exceeded 412 million roubles. This was reported by the "Dagestani Energy Retail Company", which also announced its intention to cut off electricity supply to 196 debtors in February.

The investigating authorities have refused to initiate criminal proceedings against Ingush human rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov. Law enforcers claimed discovery on the Magomed Mutsolgov's PCs of materials in support of terrorists and materials of pornography. However, none of the law enforcers' claims was confirmed.

The government of North Ossetia has announced that the address list of works on improvement of households in the capital and regional centres of the republic will be formed on the results of public hearings prior to April 1. At first, trees should be planted at city yards, and order should be brought to parking of vehicles. This opinion was reported by residents of Vladikavkaz, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

Karen Karapetyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, has cancelled the planned visit of Vardan Yeghiazaryan, Deputy Chief of the Armenian Police, to Belarus. Political analysts have treated the cancellation of the visit as a response to the extradition of Alexander Lapshin. Political analyst Stepan Safaryan has called it "too soft demarche".

In 2017, the Volgograd Region stipulates subsidies for the non-profit organizations (NPOs), providing services in the field of social services, for the whole amount of about 96 million roubles. This was reported by the Social Protection Committee for the Volgograd Region.

The scandal with the detention of Chechens in Vienna was used by Austrian nationalists and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Austria, who stated that "refugees have abused the hospitality," Herweg Heller, an Austrian journalist, has stated.