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The Moscow City Court (MCC) has left Levon Airapetyan, an entrepreneur and a notable member of the Armenian Diaspora in Russia, accused within the "Bashneft" case, under home arrest.

In Derbent, the Lezgin Theatre is hosting an emergency session of the city Board of Elders. Its members have expressed support for the head of the city Imam Yaraliev and urged residents not to yield to provocations.

Against the background of the OSCE monitoring, whose mission has fixed no violations of the ceasefire in the conflict zone, and the demand of Azerbaijani political scientists to change the format of the mission, a soldier of the NKR's Defence Army was killed.

The monitoring, held on February 10 by the OSCE mission on the contact line of the armed forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Azerbaijan, passed without incidents.

46 prisoners, sentenced to life imprisonment, are on hunger strike at Gldani Prison No. 8, demanding revision of their cases and amending the law on amnesty. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the Ministry of Corrections, Probation and Legal Assistance.

he members of the Usenko family have demanded proofs from the Sochi administration (Mayoralty) that the house offered for their resettlement had been commissioned. Tamara Usenko said at the court session that two persons had perished in the house from gas explosion.

A spontaneous rally demanding the return of state farm land was held by villagers of Uchkent, the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan. The land plots in question had been illegally privatized by one of the former heads of state farm named after Akaev, said the protesters.

Residents of the village of Shushiya in the Novolak District of Dagestan have resumed their hunger strike demanding the return of their land plots and solution of other resettlers' problems.

This initiative was put forward by Azerbaijani political scientists, who believe that the current format of the OSCE Minsk Group is unable to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Since the start of warfare in Syria, nine natives of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who fought for the militants, have been killed there, said a source from the Department for the KBR of the Russia's Federal Security Bureau (FSB).

Investigators have questioned the activist Artak Khachatryan, who suffered in an attack on him, as a victim, said the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia.

The Adler District Court has granted the investigator's petition to extend the custody of the native of Chechnya Khavazh Temirsultanov, accused of robbing the pensioner Arthur Zadelnikov.

As stated by Sergey Fredinskiy, the Chief Military Prosecutor of Russia, officials of the Russian Prosecutor's Office may act as prosecutors in the trial on the murder of the Avetisyan family in the Armenian city of Gyumri.

The investigating authorities of Dagestan have launched a criminal investigation against a resident of the republic, suspected of involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL).

The Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is holding, jointly with Ukrainian militaries, an inspection in one of the districts of the Rostov Region. The aim of the inspection is to identify the extent of military activities in a certain area defined by the Ukrainian party, the Russia's MoD reports.

Erdogan Boz, a Turkish citizen of Circassian origin, has asked the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of Kabardino-Balkaria to help him to restore his right to visit his historic homeland.

Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the human rights organization "Mashr" and the head of the Republic's Public Oversight Commission (POC) has demanded from the public prosecutor of Ingushetia to check the information about the torture of the resident of Ingushetia Khadishat Albakova and other violations of her rights.

The arrested residents of Derbent Gamlet Kelbisov and Rustam Gabibov are kept in the temporary detention facility (IVS) of Vladikavkaz; for more than a month their advocates are not allowed to meet them, their relatives told rights defenders.

In 2014, the citation index of the "Caucasian Knot" more than doubled, which put the edition into the TOP-30 of most cited Russian Internet resources. According to its own data, the citation rate of the "Caucasian Knot" in 2014 was much higher.

The investigating authorities of Ingushetia have delivered to the court a criminal case of a 19-year-old local girl, accused of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) and storage of firearms.