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Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov ordered to use video cameras to control the preaching of theologians. The Muftiate of Ingushetia treats the decision as an attempt to prevent criticism against officials.

The administration of the Derbent District has posted on the Internet photos of the action in support of Vladimir Putin, held in a rural school. After discussion in social networks and the publication on the "Election Violation Map" of the "Golos" (Vote) movement, the photos were deleted.

Investigators told Oyub Titiev's advocate that the Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in the police station, where Titiev was taken after detention, were inoperative on that day. Thus, the Titiev's case is deprived of the most important evidence, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has stated in its comment on the situation.

Forced migrants from Chechnya did not picket the State Duma building in Moscow, but met with an MP from Ingushetia, said Madina Dzortova, a migrant, whom Evkurov declared to be the organizer of the picket.

In Sochi, a pine fell on a ski slope and injured a tourist. The young woman was hospitalized with fractures, rescuers reported.

Zagidat Abakarova, a resident of Dagestan, sentenced today after her voluntary return from Syria, has persuaded the court to postpone her imprisonment for 13 years.

Today, after a shootout that broke out in the Untsukul District of Dagestan, law enforcers killed a militant, who had been involved in terrorism, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

On February 12, a video appeared in the group "Typical Astrakhan" in the social network "VKontakte". Its author reported that billboards with the image of Vladimir Putin in Astrakhan were guarded by law enforcers. "A poster reads: 'Strong Russia, strong president,' and given the poverty around, it looks like a mockery," the author wrote.

Today, a Makhachkala court has sentenced Zagidat Abakarova, a resident of Dagestan, detained after her voluntary return from Syria, to imprisonment.

A petition calling to release Abdusamad Gamidov, the chair of the Dagestani government, gained 908 signatures for a week. For the same period, 766 signatures were left under a petition in support of Rayudin Yusufov, Deputy of Abdusamad Gamidov.

A video showing police officers who arranged a feast and dancing at their office appeared on the Internet. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan started an official investigation.

The Vienna Court (Landesgericht für Strafsachen Wien) has recognized three men, two of whom are natives of Chechnya, guilty of creating an IS* unit and plotting an attack on policemen.

Today, a group of forced migrants from Chechnya has held a picket outside the State Duma in Moscow, complaining about Ingush officials because of problems with obtaining housing. The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, accused the picketers of trying to "swing the situation", saying that Ingush authorities are trying to solve their problems.

The Israeli parliament has rejected the legislative initiative of the MP, who offered to recognize the Armenian Genocide and reminded about the Holocaust.

The protests of Yerevan townspeople and the action of the "Apricot Country" Party in the Council of Elders have forced the city bosses to start repairing the sewage system of the Nubarashen Prison.

Today, Vladimir Vasiliev has supported the proposal of Artyom Zdunov, the Prime Minister of Dagestan, to reduce the republic's government.

Today, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has approved nomination of the incumbent President Ilham Aliev, Fuad Aliev, the Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, and three self-nominees as presidential candidates.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has asked Russia to investigate the disappearance of Khusein Badurgov and Khadizhat Elimkhanova in Chechnya in 2012 and 2013, the Committee against Torture (CAT) has stated today.

Lawyers of the Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund (ACF) have appealed against the decision of the Ust-Labinsk District Court to block the ACF's anti-corruption investigation, telling about an influential official spending his holiday on a yacht with an oligarch and prostitutes.

The repair of the Varketili metro station before the ceiling collapsed there was carried out with violations, Kakha Kaladze, the Tbilisi Mayor has stated, suggesting firing the employees, who had accepted the project.