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Monitoring of the OSCE on the contact line between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan has been interrupted because of a shot fired from the Azerbaijani side, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

Law enforcers have identified two persons killed in a shootout in the Gali District of Abkhazia, who allegedly participated in the kidnapping of a local resident. A regime of special operation is still valid in the Gali District, and the law enforcers are looking for other members of the grouping of kidnappers.

Residents of the town of Gyumri demand to extradite Valery Permyakov detained on suspicion of mass murder of Avetisyan family members to the Armenian side.

The incidents at the contact line with Azerbaijan involve special services of Turkey. This was stated by Yuri Mikaelyan, the Chairman of the Union of Karabakh war veterans. Aragats Mkrtchyan, the Deputy Chairman of the Union of Karabakh war veterans, explains the tension on the contact line by political instability in Azerbaijan.

Participation of Azerbaijani citizens in hostilities in Syria in the ranks of the ISIL recognized as a terrorist organization can contribute to the import into Azerbaijan of radical ideas and increase in the number of their supporters. This opinion has been expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The importance of preservation of monuments of history and architecture was stated by the regional leaders of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) who visited Derbent with the Russian presidential envoy to the NCFD at the background of the acts of vandalism, committed on January 8, 9 and 11; however, the agenda of the visit, according to information from official sources, did not assume the visiting of the sites of vandalism.

The Rostov NGO Union "Women of Don" has appealed against the decision of the Zamoskvorechye District Court of Moscow to recognize the legitimacy of the inclusion of the NGO in the register of "foreign agents".

The action of candle-lighting in memory of the executed Avetisyan family took place in the centre of the city of Gyumri. The casualties' bodies were placed into the church for the funeral service.

Officials of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) have denied the reports of their counterparts of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) that on January 11 the Azerbaijani Army suffered losses as a result of armed incidents.

Public prosecutors have challenged the verdict against Magomed Abdurashidov detained during a special operation in Dagestan who was sentenced to one year of imprisonment on charges of aiding and abetting militants.

For the fourth day, family members and advocates of Magomed Aliev, a student of the Stavropol University, accused of promoting terrorism, cannot reveal his whereabouts.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has completed the examination of evidence in the case of Alexei Makoev, a resident of Chegem, killed during the special operation carried out on April 30, 2013, in the vicinity of the village of Khasanya. The SC started to question witnesses in the case.

Valery Permyakov suspected of the murder of the Avetisyan family in the town of Gyumri is at the 102nd Russian military base in Armenia. He confessed of the mass murder. The Armenian and Russian law enforcement agencies are in talks about which country will investigate the case.

On January 12, Arif Yunus, a conflictologist and historian, a researcher at the Institute of Peace and Democracy (IPD), who is accused Azerbaijan of treason, was 60 years old. He marked his birthday in the SIZO of the country's Ministry of National Security (MNS).

Raziyat Isabekova, a resident of the village of Novokayakent, Kayakent District of Dagestan, states that she cannot find his daughter Saida Khalikova, who was detained last December.

Today, in the Gali District of Abkhazia, which borders on Georgia, a shootout broke out in the course of a special operation, in which killed five persons were killed. As reported by Raul Lolua, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia, the death toll includes an employee of the Special Missions Centre of the State Security Service of Abkhazia and a Russian border guard.

Unidentified persons threw a stun grenade into the yard of the house belonging to Ibragim Khalukhaev, the Rector of the Ingush Institute of Economics and Law. No one was hurt in the incident.

In Derbent, acts of vandalism were committed to divert public attention from the mayoral election and trigger riots on ethnic grounds. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, Kurman-Ali Baichorov, the Imam of Kislovodsk, was found guilty of illegal drug dealing and sentenced to 3.5 years of deprivation of freedom.

The desecration of the Memorial Mosque on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow was provoked by the attack on the edition office of the "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris and the events surrounding the terror act. This opinion has been expressed by experts Orkhan Djemal, Andrei Zubov, and Lev Levinson interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.