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Fizuli Guseinov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who is serving an administrative arrest of 30 days, holds a hunger strike in the police detention facility, said Nureddin Mamedli, Deputy Chairman of the PFPA. Party activists fear for Guseinov's health and state political reasons for his arrest.

In Astrakhan, over 50 people have come today with social demands to a rally, organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). Protesters stated the insolvency of the Russian government in the face of rising prices and tariffs and demanded its resignation.

In Sochi, a policeman received a gunshot wound, when checking documents of a 53-year-old man. The latter was detained; and the policeman was hospitalized with a wound into the forearm, the ICRF reports.

Radil Mirzaev has stated that a group of masked men kidnapped and beat him up. Mirzaev was delivered to the hospital of city of Jalilabad in grave condition.

Gamzat Saigidov, killed in a shootout with power agents on the Kizilyurt-Makhachkala highway, had been on the wanted list, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). Saigidov was a militants' helper, said the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation.

The Armed Forces of Armenia violated the ceasefire by using heavy machine guns; in response, Azerbaijani troops inflicted a fire attack, destroying military vehicles and killing enemy soldiers, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today, and disseminated a video of the incident; however, the video has traces of cutting and editing.

On February 5, in the Leninsky District of Grozny, a group of people captured a young man and took him away to some unknown destination. This was reported by local residents through social networks. The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have not yet commented on the incident.

The voting at the election of the leader of Chechnya will be held simultaneously with the elections of deputies to the State Duma. This was reported by Ismail Baikhanov, Chairman of the Chechen Election Commission.

On February 5, at the trial in the criminal case of the murder of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, the court questioned three witnesses, who told the details of the Valery Permyakov's detention.

The "Roszdravnadzor" has started checking the perinatal centre in Khasavyurt, where Zalina Dalieva, a maternity patient of Chechen origin died. The perinatal centre itself is operating normally, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed by Zarina Agmadova, the press secretary of the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health.

In Sochi, sisters Tatiana and Svetlana Pidbolyachnaya are accused of fraud in obtaining inheritance. According to investigators, the women filed a lawsuit to the court and succeeded in recognizing their mother as dead, although she was still alive, but lived in another city. According to the victim, she has lost her housing, since the house with a land plot belonging to her were sold and demolished during the construction of Olympic facilities.

Akhmed Zakaev, the head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, has treated the proposal to return home, made to him by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, as propaganda and having no connection with the reality.

The consideration of complaints about torture and violation of the rights of Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the Movement "Muslim Unity", who is kept in custody in Azerbaijan, has begun behind closed doors by the court. The Bagirzade's testimonies were heard.

Today, the members of the Salafi community of Dagestan have come to Khasavyurt to take part in the Friday namaz and sermon in the "Vostochnaya" (Eastern) mosque. The Imam of the mosque Magomednabi Magomedov stated the inadmissibility of further pressure of power agents on Salafis, and urged the members of the community to be united and seek protection of their rights by peaceful means.

The residents of the Astrakhan Region, fighting for the "Islamic State" (IS), are younger than 30, Oleg Agarkov, the head of the Regional Department of Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has stated today.

The participants of the action in Buynaksk have expressed distrust to the Deputies of the City Assembly from the Party of Veterans.

Today, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that he opposes the merger of Chechnya and Ingushetia. He has also reported that he had agreed with Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov to combat extremism together.

In Dagestan, according to the preliminary information, a man killed in the course of a shootout in the Kizilyurt District, was identified as a 38-year-old resident of the Tsumada District, a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF).

Tough statements made by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov concerning the impossibility of dialogue with Salafis undermine the stability in society and prevent development of mechanisms for peaceful coexistence of communities supporting different concepts of Islam. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Parents of an 11-year-old schoolgirl of the Zayukovsky boarding school, who died on December 23, 2015, stated that they did not believe in the version of the accident, since the girl's body bore signs of beating.