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Daniyal Alkhasov, a doctor of the Dagestani village of Erpeli, has addressed the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with a complaint about the systematic pressure of law enforcers and his unlawful operational-preventive registration at the police as a follower of the Salafi concept of Islam.

In Armenia, the law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into the case of obstruction to actions of an authorized delegate at the constitutional referendum held on December 6, 2015.

The court that considers the murder case of Rasim Aliev has refused to summon the Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan; however, it partially granted the petition to summon forensic experts, said Asabali Mustafaev, an advocate.

Former tenants of the destroyed house in Volgograd seek to meet the Governor or his representative to learn about compensation for their lost housing before the public hearings on surveying the territory, said Larisa Borodaeva, the leader of tenants' activists.

In the outskirts of the village of Ashali, law enforcers found a large hideout with weapons and medicines; the "owners" of the weapons have not been defined yet, said a law enforcement source of Dagestan.

In Chechnya, people are afraid of Ramzan Kadyrov. This was stated by Ilya Yashin, Deputy Chairman of the "People's Freedom Party" (PARNAS), who visited Grozny while working on the report about the leader of Chechnya. According to Ilya Yashin, the study is addressed to the Russian public, and there are people in Chechnya, who will disseminate the report in the territory of the republic.

Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film director, sentenced in Rostov-on-Don to 20 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony on the charge of terrorism, has been transported to Yakutia. This was reported by advocate Mark Feighin.

According to the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the reports of the kidnapping of a young man in the Leninsky District of Grozny on February 5 have not been confirmed, as well as the posts in social networks about the disappearance of seven persons.

Ramzan Kadyrov's statement that Chechen spetsnaz (special troops) is at war in Syria should be treated with scepticism, said Reserve Colonel Victor Murakhovskiy and Andrei Koshkin, a military political analyst. If Kadyrov is telling the truth, then he has actually "exposed" his spetsnaz to the fighters of the "Islamic State" (IS), said Alexei Malashenko, a member of the Scientific Council of the Moscow Carnegie Centre.

Dmitry Manshin, a witness in the case of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, has stated at interrogation the truthfulness of the version of the prosecution. Savchenko and her defence have disagreed with Manshin's testimonies, and received a remark for that.

Shamil Avenue was closed with the aim of conducting targeted checks; information about blocking a house with militants is not true, said a law enforcement source of Dagestan.

At the request of the Prosecutor's Office, the Sovietskiy District Court of Astrakhan, which is considering the case of Igor Stenin, the leader of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", has announced the trial closed and removed the audience and the media from the courtroom.

The Frunze District Court of Saratov has placed into custody a suspect of recruiting people to the "Imarat Kavkaz Vilayat Dagestan", which is recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization.

In the territory of Syria, in the rear of the militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), fighters of the Chechen special forces are operating, said the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, adding that the Chechen fighters had been trained at the centre of special forces near the village of Tsentoroi.

The criminal case against Ivan Barylyak, a resident of Stavropol, has a political motive related to the public activities of the convict; and his prosecution is related exclusively to this activities. These conclusions were made by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", which recognized Barylyak to be a political prisoner.

Ilya Yashin, Deputy Chairman of the People's Freedom Party (known as "Parnas") has arrived in the Chechen capital, where he is collecting materials for a report about the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov. The provisional title of the report is "Threat to National Security"; the end of the work is scheduled for February 23.

During the week from February 1 to February 7, 2016, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus at least one person was killed. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

An appeal to President Vladimir Putin has been sent by the suffered party in the case of the death Murat Borlakov at the Ust-Djeguta ROVD (District Interior Division), as well as by the representative of the victims in the case of robbery and theft of cattle in the Stavropol Territory; the figurants in both cases are policemen of Ust-Djeguta.

The oppositional "National Centre of Strategic Thought" has presented an action plan for driving Azerbaijan out of the economic crisis. In particular, it is necessary to adopt a new constitution, and to hold early parliamentary and presidential elections.

Today, three activists of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan" have held an action in support of Ildar Dadin, convicted for repeated violation of the rules of holding actions, and Alexander Belov (Potkin), one of the leaders of the nationalistic movement "Russians".