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On January 18, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes continued listening to final speeches of the defendants in the "Nardaran case". All of them pleaded not guilty and associated their prosecution with fight against injustice and lawlessness. The defendants have also reminded the Court of the use of torture against them after their detention. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent who attended the court hearing.

Today, family members of Rakhmet Kasaev, a fifth-year student of the Stavropol Medical Academy, have claimed his kidnapping, however later the student has been found among the detainees kept at a local police station.

This evening, law enforcers have cancelled the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, which was earlier introduced within a single section of the Buynaksk and Karabudakhkent Districts of Dagestan.

The shelling from the Azerbaijani side has resulted in the death of soldier Andranik Musikyan. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

On January 17, the Sumgait Court of Appeal of Azerbaijan held a preliminary hearing on the appeal against the sentence of Ikram Ragimov, editor-in-chief of the website "realliq.info", accused of defamation. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Elchin Sadygov, an advocate of Ikram Ragimov.

The return of Gagik Tsarukyan to the political activities will complicate the situation of the Armenian opposition at the upcoming parliamentary elections in April, since the coalition created by him would "steal" voices of the opposition electorate. This opinion was voiced by Armenian political analysts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

On January 17, at a press conference on the results of 2016, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not exclusively an internal affair of Azerbaijan. The Russian Foreign Minister has made it clear that the only alternative to settle the Karabakh conflict is to solve it in a peaceful way. This opinion was voiced by Armenian experts, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

On January 17, Vladislav Ryazantsev, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", who was attacked in Rostov-on-Don, received the decision on appointment of forensic medical examination to be carried out without his involvement.

The Court of Appeal has closed the consideration of an appeal filed against the arrests of four internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Jabrail District of Azerbaijan, who were arrested for involvement in a protest action against power cuts-off in villages for IDPs. An advocate of the arrested people announced his intention to seek for review of the Court's decision.

When commenting on the first criminal case opened under Article 205.6 of the Russian Criminal Code, adopted in the framework of the "Irina Yarovaya's package of laws", lawyers have noted that the practice of criminal prosecution for failure to inform the police of a crime sharpens the contradictions between the law and the norms of legal culture and the specifics of tribal relations accepted among residents of the Caucasus.

At 1:00 p.m. Moscow time of January 17, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime was introduced within a separate section of the Buynaksk District and the adjacent Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan. According an official from the Dagestani operational headquarters of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), law enforcers are searching for militants and their accomplices.

Today, a court in Maikop has found Adnan Khuade, a Circassian activist, guilty of an attempt to commit a petty bribery, his advocate Iland Abregov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled on the case of unlawful detention and beating up of Sultan Barakhoev, a resident of North Ossetia, by policemen. His mother was awarded 19,500 euros as compensation.

A man opened fire on policemen, when they tried to stop his car and was killed by return fire, the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated today.

The appointment of Sergey Chenchik, the Chief of Staff of the Rosgvardiya (Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation), to the post of the head of Dagestan in the near future is unlikely, Dagestani experts and users of social networks believe.

The arrest of Rakhim Veliev, an activist of the Azerbaijani youth "Nida" movement, will be appealed against at the Court of Appeal (CoA), said his advocate, adding that the young man was arrested for 30 days. According to the judgement, the activist had not obeyed the police.

The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office carries out a check to find out whether names of residents of the village of Mokok located in the Tsuntin District were legally withdrawn from the list of persons affected by the fire which occurred in August 2016.

On January 16, Kurchaloi, a district centre in Chechnya, hosted a gathering, which participants made a decision to evict in future family members of militants from the republic. The gathering was held in Kurchaloi after five villagers had been detained in a special operation.

According to unofficial information, Sergey Chenchik, the head of the Chief Headquarters of the Russian Guard, can replace Ramazan Abdulatipov as the leader of Dagestan. This was announced by journalist Maxim Shevchenko, a member of the Russian Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights.

On January 16, Elizaveta Glinka, also known as Dr. Liza, was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. She was the head of the "Spravedlivaya Pomosch" (Fair Aid) Foundation, and she was one of the victims to the Tu-154 crash near the coast of Sochi.