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In Shamkhal, a suburban residential settlement of Makhachkala, the Salafi mosque will be reopened only after the appointment of a new imam. This was reported by members of the Salafi community and a source from the local police station.

Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of provocation, resulting in the death of soldier Nakhid Fikret oglu Safarov.

The Suleiman-Stalsky District Court has found a local resident Ignat Abdurakhmanov guilty of helping participants of the armed underground, as well as of illegal possession of an explosive device.

Russian sanctions against Turkey will not affect the economy of Abkhazia, but will boost local agriculture, said Shamil Adzimba, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic.

An official of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported on prevention of the attempt to transfer fighters of the "Islamic State" (IS) to Russia and of terror acts plotted by a group of Russian citizens who swore allegiance to the IS. Meanwhile, in 2015, in Russia, the NAC registered the decrease in the number of terrorist crimes by 2.5 times.

A native of the village of Balakhani, suspected of belonging to militants, has surrendered voluntarily, said a source from the administration of the Untsukul District of Dagestan. The republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has confirmed the fact of voluntary surrender.

The first place in the contest in honour of Dagestani journalist Akhmednabi Ahmednabiyev was granted to Sergey Sokolov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta".

The administration of the Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya has received no complaints about retentions from salaries of state employees, said Shamkhan Arsanukaev, the deputy head of the district administration. However, residents of Chechnya point to cases when applications about extortions are recalled because of pressure.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has asked the governments of Azerbaijan and Hungary to present the official answers in the complaint filed by relatives of Gurgen Margaryan, an officer of the Armenian Armed Forces, who was killed by Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov.

The case against a resident of the village of Kashkhatau, charged with storing a shotgun, two pistols and ammunition, has been sent to the court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

Olga Kozinskaya, a candidate for the City Assembly of Sochi from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), has challenged the judgment to refuse to cancel the election results on constituency No. 9.

The swine flu incidence in Georgia remains complex: the H1N1 virus has been confirmed by laboratory analysis in 153 persons; two more patients died from complications; and the total number of this year's deaths from the virus made five persons.

In most republics of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the epidemic threshold for influenza virus is not surpassed yet. So far, no quarantine measures have been introduced in Dagestan and Chechnya.

Supporters of Gusein Gamzatov are preparing a lawsuit against the decision of the City Assembly to dismiss him from the post of the head of Buynaksk. The extraordinary session of the Assembly, where the decision was made, was held with violations, said Zairbek Valiev, one of the Deputies.

Nadezhda Savchenko could not, with her wounded arm, climb the tower and correct from there the fire on Russian journalists, two witnesses for the defence have stated today at the session of the Donetsk City Court. Lyudmila Kozlovskaya, President of the Fund "Open Dialogue", is convinced of Savchenko's innocence.

By decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia, the prison terms of Shamil Gazimagomedov, Magomed Ibragimov, Ramazan Khalizov and Vladimir Khalizov were reduced by two months, said the advocate Rustam Yunusov. The SC upheld the life imprisonment for convicted Murad Ataev and Shamil Abdulazizov.

As a result of consideration of appeals, the maximum reduction of the prison term made only 1.5 years, said the advocates of the convicts for the attack on Nalchik.

A resident of the Dagestani village of Andi received a shrapnel wound during a special operation, said the spokesman of the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), thus confirming the information of the "Caucasian Knot" of January 26.

The Judicial Chamber on Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has refused to abolish life sentences to five persons, convicted in the case of the attack on Nalchik, while reducing the sentences to some other figurants in the case.

The regional State Labour Inspectorate is involves in checking information about systematic deductions from salaries of employees of the social protection system of the Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya.