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The active phase of the special operation in Dagestan has been completed. Six militants allegedly involved in organizing the terror act on the DPS (road-and-patrol) checkpoint and a Police Major were killed. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia.

Workers of mining enterprises of the city of Chiatura stopped their strike after reaching a preliminary agreement with the administration of the company "Georgian Manganese".

Today, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev has signed an order to relieve Nizami Alekberov from his position of the head of the Ismailli District, where riots occurred in January.

A pre-trial restriction measure to Movli Vyshegurov, the former head of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) for Ingushetia, was changed from detention to home arrest. This was reported by the press service of the Pyatigorsk City Court.

On February 13, two young activists of the "Heritage" Party were beaten while distributing leaflets calling to vote for Raffi Ovannisyan, a candidate for the position of Presidential of Armenia. This was reported by Ovsep Khurshudyan, press secretary of the "Heritage" Party.

Today, the sitting of the Russian State Duma has deprived Konstantin Shirshov, an MP from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) of the Krasnodar Territory, of his parliamentary immunity, as he is suspected of attempted fraud with the sale of the Duma mandate for 7.5 million euros.

Khafiz Gadjiev, the leader of the "Modern Musavat" Party, has reported about his refusal of the idea to cut off an ear of Akram Aylisli, the author of the novel about Nagorno-Karabakh.

The defence of the victim at the trial on using torture to Vyacheslav Merekha in the Stavropol Territory is satisfied with the verdict and has no intention to appeal against it, said Ilya Shatin, and employee of the Fund "Public Verdict", who represented the interests of the victim.

The judicial hearing in respect of the defendant, accused of killing former Colonel Yuri Budanov, has been invalidated; and the jury has been dissolved, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

This morning local resident Sultangery Khashagulgov, brother of Yakub and Isa Khashagulgov suspected of involvement in organization of the act of terror committed at the market of Vladikavkaz in September of 2012, was killed in Nazran, a source in law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia informed.

A resident of Dagestan detained for suspicion of murdering two sons of an officer of the Ministry of interior Affairs in the settlement of Belidji, Derbent district, confessed to killing two children for the reason that they became eyewitnesses of robbery, Investigative Department of the republic reports.

World Champion in ultimate fighting and four more persons were detained in Nalchik for hashish trafficking in the republic, Department of Drug Control in KBR reported.

Today the arrest of ex-Deputy of the Parliament Giulyar Ahmedova was officially confirmed by Prosecutor General’s of Azerbaijan. According to the office, Ahmedova is suspected of swindle and covering up a grave crime.

An unidentified person in Dagestan fired upon a senior lieutenant of police, officer of standby unit of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in Khasavyurt. The man was gravely wounded and taken to hospital.

An ex-officer of local police got wounded at the moment of blasting of a car in Derbent. He was taken to hospital in a grave state, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported.

A home-made explosive device was activated in the evening of February, 12, on the line of march of a motorcade of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation in the town of Buinaksk, Dagestan.

A bill draught stipulating criminal liability for denial of genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was introduced to the Bureau of National Assembly of France.

One of the leaders of “Southern” group Kurban Guseinov was among those killed in a special operation at the border of Tabasaran and Derbent districts of Dagestan today, National Anti-Terrorist Committee reports.

Today during search in one of the houses of Sunzha district of Ingushetia officers of Federal Security Service killed a local resident who according to National Anti-Terrorist Committee’s version, opened fire at them.

Today 350 drivers of municipal buses in Batumi, Adzharia, went on a strike. Their main demand is wage rise.