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In Paris, the exhibition "Culture. People. Dagestan" has launched the Days of Dagestan, which are devoted to the 2000th anniversary of Derbent.

In Sochi, activists of the Public Ecological Council have discussed the problems remaining after the Winter Olympic Games. According to the activists, the city has suffered from large-scale construction of various facilities, inefficient garbage collection, and imported pests.

Political analyst Albert Esedov sees no connection between the criminal case against Magomed Orudjev, who used to be the Prosecutor of the Soviet District of Makhachkala, and the criminal case against Said Amirov, the ex-Mayor of Makhachkala.

The strike of truck drivers and entrepreneurs with the demand to abolish the "Platon" system has brought a lot of losses. This was stated by participants of the protest action in Volgograd, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Drivers of 70-80 heavy vehicles continue truckers' strike in the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt. Protestors report no obstacles from the police.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has launched a campaign in support of Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova.

Reporter Orkhan Djemal and political analysts Akhmet Yarlykapov and Ruslan Martagov cast doubt on the FSB Chief's statements about the killing of 20 leaders of the "Islamic State" (IS) in Northern Caucasus. According to the reporter and the political analysts, the most authoritative and influential leaders of the IS have survived.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has presented to the parties to the Karabakh conflict an updated list of the persons disappeared in the conflict zone prior to the introduction of the ceasefire regime in 1994.

The law signed by Russia's president a that allows the Constitutional Court (CC) to recognize decisions of international courts unenforceable is dangerous and violates citizens’ rights, believe Lyudmila Alexeyeva, the Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and Olga Gnezdilova, an activist of the project named "Stitching Russian Justice Initiative".

The resident of Baksan, who was killed in a shootout with power agents in Nalchik, was raising money to finance the armed underground and was on the federal wanted list on suspicion of robbery, said the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The Russian Supreme Court (SC) is to consider the appeal complaints lodged by 48 out of 52 convicts in the case of the attack on Nalchik in 2005.

Rustam Asilderov, Gasan Abdullaev, Aslan Byutukaev and Zalim Shebzukhov are, according to information published in 2015 with reference to Russian power agents, were treated as leaders of North-Caucasian militants who had sworn to the "Islamic State" (IS).

Investigators have charged Soslan Sitokhov, the head of the criminal investigation section of the Iriston ROVD (District Interior Division) of Vladikavkaz, arrested in the case of the death of a detainee Vladimir Tskaev.

In the shootout with power agents in Nalchik only a resident of Baksan was killed by return fire. The other man – the detained resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) – was not shooting at law enforcers, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Today, Russia marks the Commemoration Day of the journalists who perished in the performance of their professional duties. In Moscow, this day is timed to summing up the contest for the Sakharov Award "For Journalism as a Deed".

In Nalchik, a resident of Baksan was shot dead during a shootout; another resident of the city was detained. None of the police officers was injured, said a law enforcement source of Kabardino-Balkaria.

The FSB boss Alexander Bortnikov has stated that out of 26 leaders, who had sworn to the "Islamic State" (IS) in Northern Caucasus, 20 were killed in 2015. According to his story, in 2015, in total, 156 militants were neutralized in Russia.

Eleven young people were detained for their acquaintance with suspects of setting a ziyart on fire in the village of Kurchaloy, but released a few days later, local residents report. The staff of the Kurchaloy ROVD (District Interior Division) has left this information without comment.

In Adygea, the ecologist Valery Brinikh has appealed to the Investigating Department (ID) for Adygea of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) against the actions of law enforcers when holding their operative- search activities within the criminal case against him.

The court has sentenced Albert Minatullaev, a resident of Dagestan, and Askar Abdumuslimov, a resident of the Kirov Region, to four years in prison after finding them guilty of trying to join the "Islamic State” (IS).