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The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has found no appeals to crime in the statements of the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov about responsibility of relatives for militants' actions, says a copy of the document released by Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee against Torture.

The advocate Murad Magomedov was beaten up near the building of the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan after a court session on the terror act committed in the house of Sheikh Chirkey, said the lawyer Rinat Gamidov.

This afternoon, Levon Andreasyan, 85, resident of the Armenian village of Movses, Tavush Region, was wounded with a bullet of an Azerbaijani sniper, said Artsrun Ovannisyan, the spokesman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

The second defender has entered the case of the murder of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri. Thus, five successors of the victims will be represented by two advocates.

Abdul Abilov, a prisoner of the Azerbaijani Colony No. 13, who criticized the Azerbaijani authorities and who was convicted on charges of drug possession, was placed into the dungeon for "having a lunch with a political prisoner", the civil movement "Nida" announces.

The spread of the influence of the Islamic State and the tough measures against the armed underground in most parts of Northern Caucasus are the reasons behind the decline in number of victims to the conflict in the region. However, the return of combatants from the Middle East, the deterioration of the socio-economic situation, and the response to the pressure of law enforcers can explode the situation again. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the evening of February 3, the law enforcement authorities detained a native of Dagestan after his threats to blow up the railway station "Rostov-Glavny".

Azerbaijani human rights defender Intigam Aliev, accused of illegal entrepreneurship and embezzlement, has refused to testify at trial prior to victims and witnesses for the prosecution. Thus, he has expressed his protest against the dismissal of a number of defence's motions by the judge.

Possible failure of the Russian party to extradite Valery Permyakov, charged with the shooting of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, to the Armenian law enforcement agencies, will deteriorate the situation in the city. This opinion was expressed by local residents. They insist on their demand and don’t rule out holding protest actions.

Today, in Tbilisi, policemen detained protesters against involvement of Georgian citizens in military actions in Ukraine. An action near the office of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party was held by activists of the "Free Generation".

Today, the Nakhchivan City Court found Khijran Gasymov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), guilty of drug dealing and causing a light bodily injury, and sentenced him to 2.5 years of conditional imprisonment.

Today, the Moscow Regional Court (MRC) has ruled to leave four activists of the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN) in custody until May 14, 2015.

The health status of Magomed Aushev has somewhat stabilized, allowing on February 2 to take him to one of the clinics in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), said Magomed-Ali Aushev, his uncle.

A native of Grozny Adam Osmaev, who had been once accused of plotting a terror act against the Russian President Vladimir Putin, has headed the "International Peacemaking Battalion named after Dudaev", created by Isa Munaev, a former Chechen field commander, and taking part in the war in Eastern Ukraine as a part of the antiterrorist operation (ATO).

Ilya Varlamov, a photographer and blogger and one of the organizers of "Urban Projects, who visited Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, has treated the city as dirty and unkempt, and disliked by local residents.

Isa Munaev, a former Chechen field commander and the leader of the "International peacekeeping battalion named after Johar Dudaev", who fought in Donbas as part of the forces of the antiterrorist operation (ATO), perished near the town of Debaltsevo.

On February 2, Vasily Golubev, the Governor of the Rostov Region, decided to extend the emergency regime throughout the entire region, and instructed the heads of municipalities to prepare additional places to accommodate Ukrainian refugees.

Policemen are clearing up the circumstances of the incident with beating up of supporters of the "Pre-Parliament"; a decision to open a criminal case will be made on the outcomes of the check, Felix Arutyunyan, the head of the press service of the police under the Government of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

James Appathurai, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia, has stated that the alliance would not recognize the legitimacy of the alliance treaty signed by Russia and South Ossetia, but cannot prevent the signing thereof.

The decision of the Court of Appeal (CoA) in the case of the Armenian participants of the "Million Mask March" was caused by the position of the authorities on the matter, said the convicts' defence.