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Three young men were detained in the Chechen village of Tsentaroy on suspicion of painting the flag used by militants of the "Islamic State" of the wall of one of the buildings, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

On February 12, in Grozny, employees of law enforcement bodies detained and took to some unknown place three young men with beards and shaved-off moustaches. Eyewitnesses reported that the young men were taken away from a regular bus.

The man who was killed near the city of Nartkala at night on February 12 was identified as a 35-year-old resident of Nalchik. In his car, components of an improvised explosive device (IED), stuffed with dowels, were found by policemen.

Residents of the Southern Federal and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) complain about the continuing rise in food prices. According to the territorial statistical bodies and the Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), in February, the prices for certain food groups went up by 6-20%.

On February 12, it was announced at the sitting of the government of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) that the 2015 state budget has allotted 187.2 million drams (1 US dollar = 470 drams) for searching, researching and protecting historical monuments.

The official statements by the Armenian and Russian parties about the inquiry into the massacre of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri look not credible; while the public receives very little information about the case, said picketers in Yerevan.

Public and religious leaders of Ingushetia and Dagestan support the decision of regional authorities to ban the screening of the movie "Fifty Shades of Grey", which contains plenty of sexual scenes. Some residents have disagreed; meanwhile, the KBR and the Stavropol Territory have held the first-run of the movie.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has rejected the claim of the Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilev against the Russian Federal Migration Service, which had imposed a five-year ban on his entering Russia. The court also refused to grant the petition for a temporary lift of the ban to let him come to Russia to defend his interests.

The American movie that starts its screening today will not be shown in most of the republics of Northern Caucasus under the motive that it is contrary to Islamic values and citizens' mentality; besides, religious and public figures spoke against the movie.

A group of Yerevan residents has held a picket in front of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia demanding the transfer Valery Permyakov, the Russian soldier, accused of massacring the Avetisyan family to local law enforcement bodies.

A Dagestani court has found Khabib Magomedov, a resident of Buynaksk, guilty of involvement in the "Hizb-ut-Tahrir", the organization banned in Russia and illegal circulation of ammunition.

On February 11, power agents were detaining young people in the marketplace in central Grozny, told Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported. Eyewitnesses associate these detentions with the incident in the village of Tsentaroy, where the wall of one of the buildings was decorated with the symbols of the "Islamic State".

Last night, in the Urvan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a man was killed, who opened fire on policemen in response to their demand to stop his car for inspection.

The participants of the emergency assembly of the Board of Elders of Derbent have appealed to Russian President and the heads of country's law enforcement bodies to check the legality of the criminal case against the city Mayor of Imam Yaraliev.

The Azerbaijani rights defender Emin Guseinov, while fleeing the repression of country's authorities, since August 18, 2014, is forced to hide in the Swiss Embassy in Baku, says the Norwegian Foundation "Human Rights House" (HRH).

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has obliged the Russia's Ministry of Finance to pay a compensation of 500,000 roubles to Anzor Koshiev for his illegal detention and criminal prosecution.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has instructed the investigating authorities to resume the inquiry into the kidnapping in February 2003 of Idris Ulubaev, a resident of the village of Novye Atagi of the Shali District.

The session of the KBR's SC on the murder case of Alexei Makoev, shot dead in a special operation, has been rescheduled for February 18.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has satisfied the petition lodged by Andrei Rudomakha, the head of "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), asking to postpone the commencement of the proceedings on liquidation of his organization.

A complaint against the decision to put Magomed Khazbiev on the wanted list was lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia by his advocate Khedy Ibrieva.