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The Human Rights Centre (HRC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has appealed to Yuri Chaika, General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, with a request to check the refusal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to recognize Syrian Circassians as compatriots abroad.

According to relatives of the young people detained in the capital of Chechnya in December 2016 after the attacks on law enforcers, they still cannot get information about the detainees' whereabouts. Meanwhile, the detainees' relatives claim that they themselves have to go into hiding for fear of blood feud from family members of the killed policemen.

Magomed Magomedov, a journalist, and Shamil Khadulaev, a member of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, see only a technical point in the cancellation of a meeting of the Buynaksk City Council to discuss the issue of resignation of Mayor Zacharya Amirov.

Provision of mandates to national minorities will not solve their problems. This opinion was voiced by Armenian political analysts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot". Members of the largest ethnic communities of Armenia welcomed the provision of quotas in the parliament to minorities.

At the trial in the case on an attempt to create a caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the mother and aunt of defendant Islam Shogenov claimed that law enforcers searched the defendant's apartment during more than an hour in absence of witnesses.

The Tambov Regional Court has upheld the decision to transfer from a colony-settlement to a penal colony Igor Stenin, the leader of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", who is serving his sentence in the Tambov Region.

On January 30, the jury of the contest held in memory of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev will complete the evaluation of journalistic materials nominated for the award in 2016. The number of the texts submitted to the contest has grown in comparison with the previous year.

The blogger Rashad Agaaddin, convicted in 2013 on charges of illegal drug dealing, for the first time since his imprisonment was placed into dungeon. The colony administration did not name the reasons for the punishment, his advocate said.

Reports on the work of Chechen servicemen in Aleppo are sent to Chechnya every day, said Ruslan Numakhadzhiev, the commander of the military police battalion. According to his story, Chechen militaries are in Aleppo since mid-December of 2016.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has dismissed the appeal filed by officials from the Buynaksk ROVD (District Interior Division) against the court's decision to withdraw doctor Daniyal Alkhasov from the police prevention registration list.

No radical changes in the composition of the Parliament may be expected, since the victory of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) is facilitated by the absence of any political rivals capable to win 54%. This was stated by the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

During 2017, the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Electrozink" plans to prepare a base for the modernization of equipment, said the press service of the company. Works are expected to start in February.

Chechen natives are serving in the battalion of military police of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the Syrian city of Aleppo, said the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov. According to his story, Adam Delimkhanov met the Chechens in Syria; as reported by the "Novaya Gazeta", Delimkhanov formed the unit in Chechnya to be sent to Syria.

The population of Chechnya has no way to express opinions; and it cannot guarantee any stability in the region, said David Satter, an American journalist.

In 2016, the Armed Forces of Armenia and the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) lost 162 soldiers, 51 of them – in non-combat conditions, reports the study of the Vanadzor office of the Helsinki Civil Initiative. Violence in the army has to do with "criminal rules", says Artur Sakunts, the head of the office.

Chechen policemen did not kidnap from Surgut the alleged swindlers, who imitated the voice of Kadyrov, and asked their local colleagues to close their eyes to the detention and removal of suspects, suggested the journalist Orkhan Jemal. Illegal practices are being spread beyond Chechnya, Tatiana Lokshina, a rights defender, has added.

The Russian legislation fails to consider the cultural and ethnic specificities of Cossacks; therefore, possible measures for the rehabilitation thereof are limited, said the participants of a conference held in Volgograd. In their view, the rehabilitation may facilitate the recognition of the decossackization process a form of genocide.

The Baku Court of Grave Crimes has held a preparatory session on the case of Natig Kerimov, an elder of the village of Nardaran. The consideration of the case on the merits in a closed session is scheduled for February 2.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has sentenced Arthur Teppeev to five years in colony for participation in the Kabardino-Balkarian branch of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia.

Two former senior power agents, convicted in Georgia under the murder case of Zurab Vazagashvili and Alexander Khubulov, have gone on a hunger strike. They state a possible conspiracy against them of other defendants in the case, said the advocate of one of them.