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Since January 24, the family of Akhsan Nuruzade, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" cannot establish his whereabouts. Akhsan supported Talekh Bagirzade and other defendants in the "Nardaran case" and disappeared on the eve of the announcement of the court verdict.

The court session on the case of an attempt to create a caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has been postponed in order to allow the defence to prepare its objections to the petition of the public prosecutor, demanding to extend the defendants' custody.

The criminal case on embezzlement of funds of real estate investors of the Krasnodar housing company (HC) "Anit-City" has been filed against an unidentified employee of the company-developer. The real estate investors themselves treat the above as palliative. However, they made a decision not to renew yet their hunger strike.

In Chechnya, policemen are not subordinates of Ramzan Kadyrov, and his call to open fire on suspected militants without warning is not an order, but populist rhetoric. This opinion was voiced by advocate Igor Trunov.

The judicial board on case involving soldiers and officers under the Russian Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the appeal filed against the verdict to Imam Magomednabi Magomedov. This was reported by advocate Dagir Khasavov.

The man, who opened fire at a police station in Grozny, pretended to be unconscious and took advantage of carelessness of law enforcers. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies. According to him, one of the policemen was seriously wounded.

In 2016, 19 local residents left for Syria to join terrorist organizations. In total, more than 600 residents of Chechnya can stay in Syria now. Of them, more than 340 people are put on the international wanted list. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Soldiers of the military police battalion, sent in December 2016 to Syria from Chechnya, will stay there till March. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

Tatiana Lebedeva, a field-and-track athlete, who is now a senator from the Volgograd Region, will go to court to challenge the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to deprive her of her two silver medals won at the 2008 Olympic Games.

On January 25, the "Regional Development Corporation" allocated the amount of 5.8 million roubles to pay debt to Rostov miners. This was reported by the government of the Rostov Region. The money was transferred to repay wage arrears to workers of "Coal Company 'Almaznaya'" for August 2015, reports the website of the government of the Rostov Region.

Tenants of the "Neptune" vacation hotel, which rooms are allocated to Olympic settlers and people affected by natural disasters, have been warned about power supply switch off. Officials use this way in an attempt to evict people from the manoeuvrable fund housing.

A group of Azerbaijani activists have appealed to bodies of the Council of Europe (CE) with a call for help to solve the problem of political prisoners. The activists have claimed the need for restoration of the post of the PACE special rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

Anatoly Bibilov has promised his party members to seek the reunification of Ossetia and to fight against corruption.

Chechen soldiers who stay in Syria do not obey to orders of Ramzan Kadyrov. This was stated by Pavel Felgenhauer, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". Alexei Malashenko, a member of the Scientific Council of the Moscow Carnegie Centre, has doubted the information that Ramzan Kadyrov every day receives reports from Syria.

When moving to Russia, Circassians, who are citizens of Syria, face difficulties with finding jobs and accommodations, since they do not fall under the status of compatriots. This opinion was voiced by activists questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

The "Public Verdict" Foundation has included the case against Sochi builder Mardiros Demerchyan, accused of false denunciation for his report of torture at police, in the list of trials, proving that Russia has not solved the problem of torture and failed to observe the UN recommendations issued in 2012.

In Baku, the court has sentenced Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the movement "Muslim Unity", and his deputy Abbas Guseinov, accused in the case of the riots in the Azerbaijani village of Nardaran, to 20 years of imprisonment. Other 17 defendants were sentenced to 10-20 years of imprisonment.

On January 24, at a meeting of the board for the Chechen Republic of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) held in Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov claimed the need to shoot without warning to avoid casualties among law enforcers. He also called on "to handle without gloves those whom they misled."

The health status of Khamzat Chumakov, Imam of the Nasyr-Kort mosque, has stabilized; however, he needs further medical treatment in a specialized clinic. This was reported by a brother of the Imam.

The Krasnodar Regional Court has dismissed the appeal field against the arrest of Alexei Knedlyakovsky, who was sentenced after he posted in social networks a photo of a monument to Dzerzhinsky with a Catholic cross attached it.