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In the Azerbaijani town of Siyazan, an adviser to the leader of the oppositional "Musavat" Party is released on recognizance not to leave several hours after his detention by the police.

On January 17, tenants of the house in Volgograd, destroyed by an explosion, held a meeting, stating that the authorities would not respond to their appeals and requests.

Truck drivers have gathered in Dagestani village of Manaskent and voted for the creation of the national union of heavy truck drivers, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

During the week of January 11-17, 2016, at least six persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, four persons were killed, and two others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In Makhachkala, activists have encountered in a hospital a 59-year-old man, who claims that he had spent the past seventeen years in slavery at a brick factory in Dagestan. This was reported by volunteers of the movement "Alternative".

Change of the ruling elite in Kuban, pressure on Circassian activists in Adygea, resonant sentences against activists in the Rostov Region, explosion in a multi-storey building in Volgograd, hunger strike of transport workers in Astrakhan, start of the struggle for a new Constitution of the Republic of Kalmykia, protests by truck drivers against the system "Platon", these and other events occurred in 2015 in the Southern Federal District (SFD) of Russia.

Today, in Dagestan, truck drivers from different regions of the country have gathered in Manaskent to discuss measures to protect their rights. The participants of the meeting in Manaskent have stated they will not cease their protest actions against the toll system "Platon".

A body of a militant killed by law enforcers is removed from the ruins of the destroyed private house. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

In Yerevan, a criminal case has been instituted in connection with the attack on activist Suzi Gevorkyan. She has undergone the appointed forensic medical examination, and it has confirmed the diagnosis of "brain concussion", reports the Investigating Committee of Armenia.

The ecologist Valery Brinikh has submitted a cassation complaint against the permit to tap his telephone calls examine his email massages.

Said-Emin Gazaliev, a resident of the Shali District of Chechnya, has confessed to arsoning the ziyart (mausoleum) of Durdi-Sheikh. After his confession, he together with his relatives was subjected to public condemnation by local residents.

The special operation in Nalchik, during which three persons were killed and another one was wounded, became the twelfth case of the introduction of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria since the beginning of 2014 and the ninth since the beginning of 2015.

The court has pronounced the decision on the two-month arrest of Garnik Markaryan, the leader of the Armenian "Homeland and Honour" Party, who is suspected of involvement in the grouping of Arthur Vardanyan. Garnik Markaryan treats his prosecution as a political reprisal.

In Nalchik, the active phase of the special operation has been completed, and law enforcers are searching for bodies of killed militants under the ruins of the destroyed house. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

After the meeting with their advocates, relatives of the Avetisyan family members shot and killed in Gyumri, have abandoned their plan to boycott the trial in the Permyakov's case in the territory of the 102nd Russian military base. Meanwhile, at the next meeting, they plan to file a motion to move the trial to the court of general jurisdiction of the Shirak Region of Armenia.

Relatives of Labazan Magomedaliev, the chief of the Department of Education of the Untsukul District, do not know where he is being kept, and he is not allowed to be visited by an advocate. This was reported by participants of the rally held in Untsukul.

At present, Kusama Maskhadova, the widow of Aslan Maskhadov, who has returned to Chechnya from abroad, lives in her parents' house in the village of Znamenskoe of the Nadterechny District. This was reported by local residents.

According to the preliminary information, the third suspected militant, who was shelling law enforcers from a private house in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, was shot and killed. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria.

Yakha Dokaeva, an attendant of the Grozny school No. 20, has been awarded the Medal "For Distinguished Service to the Chechen Republic". In December 2014, the building of the school No. 20 was captured by members of an illegal armed formation (IAF).

The actions of the policemen, who have failed to promptly respond to the shelling of people near Naryn-Kala Fortress, do not comply with the Federal Law "On the police". This opinion has been expressed by Magomed Shamilov, the head of the law enforcers' trade union.