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As reported by Adam Tsechoev, the head of the Malgobek District, through the efforts of the district adaptation commission they managed to return a local guy, who was in the way to war in Syria, from Turkey to Ingushetia.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case "Malika Yusupova at al versus Russia" has proved that the investigatory authorities did not want to inquire into people's applications about disappearances in Chechnya, said the lawyer Dokku Itslaev.

The natives of Dagestan Shuaib Shuaibov and Isa Abdusamadov were detained on their arrival from Egypt to Moscow and then sent to Makhachkala, said the wife of Shuaibov. According to her story, Shuaibov and Abdusamadov were questioned on suspicion of the men's participation in the hostilities in Syria. However, the local MIA did not confirm this information.

Elshad Babaev, who was kept in a colony of Azerbaijan, has died a natural death, medical experts have concluded. However, his relatives assert that Elshad died from torture, while law enforcers fail to conduct an objective investigation.

Nikolai Belugin, a pensioner, has asked the members of the Sochi City Council to organize a charity event with the aim to collect funds to help the builders of Olympic facilities, who have failed to receive their wages at the companies that belonged to one of the council members.

Today in Volgograd, Boris Stikhin, a member of the International Union of Anarchists, has held a solo picket against the warfare in Eastern Ukraine.

Since January 23, 8000 people have signed the demand to give the Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who is accused of massacring the Avetisyan family, out to law enforcement bodies of Armenia.

An Azerbaijani subversive group was almost completely liquidated while trying to attack military positions of the Armenian armed forces in the pre-border Tavush Region, Artsrun Ovannisyan, the spokesman of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD), has stated today, adding that the Armenian party suffered no losses.

Policemen in Rostov-on-Don are searching for five missing pupils of the social rehabilitation centre.

Gigi Mosiashvili, the defender of the deceased Yuri Vazagashvili, has moved a demand to replace the investigators in the case of the earlier killed Zurab Vazagashvili.

Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are investigating the incident with a wound in the head of an 11-year-old boy in the city of Argun. The boy was shot from a pistol belonging to a policeman.

On January 23, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal (CoA) found Megis Kardava, the ex-head of the Department of Military Police of the Georgia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) guilty of sexual assault and torture of the officer Sergo Tetradze and sentenced him in absentia to 9 years in prison.

On January 23, participants of the press conference at the Central House of Journalists in Moscow discussed the guilty verdict passed to the Rostov journalist Sergey Reznik, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. The speakers said that the guilty verdict to the journalist and blogger Sergey Reznik caused their bewilderment.

Today, the Makhachkala Juma-Mosque has hosted the all-republic's mawlid condemning the caricatures on Prophet Muhammad. The participants have treated the publication of caricatures as a provocation aimed at strengthening anti-Muslim sentiments.

Today, two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Armenia perished on the border with Azerbaijan, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia. One Armenian soldier was heavily wounded.

The defence of the Rostov journalist Sergey Reznik, who was convicted on charges of false denunciation and insulting the authorities, has stated a violation of his right to the freedom of expression and promised to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

According to a source close to the inquiry into the killing of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, the accused Russian soldier Valery Permyakov will undergo a psychological and psychiatric examination.

In the city of Nevinnomyssk, policemen became figurants in the case about beating up a local resident. They are charged with abuse of power.

On January 22, the press service of the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia reported about another interrogation of the Russian military Valery Permyakov, accused of assassinating seven persons. The IC has released a video footage of the interrogation; it can be found on the YouTube.

The annual message of the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov to the Dagestani National Assembly was controversial and left a lot of questions unanswered, said the experts, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".