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Head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov is going to continue his work implementing his plans of social and economic development of the republic outlined earlier, he said in an exclusive interview to the “Caucasian Knot”.

A special operation on search of leaders of the gunmen is going on in the high mountain Vedeno district of Chechen Republic, a source in power-wielding structures of the republic reported. According to him, law enforcement officers do not rule out that leader of the “Caucasus Emirate” Dokku Umarov might be hiding himself there.

“Nasledie” (“Heritage”) party whose Chairman Raffi Ovanissyan, one of the candidates for presidency of Armenia, reports violations during voting, Press Secretary of “Nasledie” party Ovsep Khurshudyan informed.

In the evening of February, 15, unidentified persons activated an explosive device in the settlement of Babayurt, Babayurt district of Dagestan. There were no victims or injured people.

The policeman knew the men he shot down in the cafe in Makhachkala, a source in law enforcement bodies of the town reported. The main version of the murder is a quarrel that emerged from hostile relations, Committee of Inquiry of Russia in Dagestan informed.

Today Lefortovsky district court of Moscow decided to submit a request to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to provide a translation of the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights on the case of the storm of the theatre centre in Dubrovka street.

Today Ahmed Bilalov submitted a statement asking to dismiss him from the office of Vice President of the Olympic Committee of Russia (OCR) of his own free will, a source in sports circles reported.

Today defence of the defendant on the case of murder of ex-colonel Yuri Budanov appealed against the resolution of judge of Moscow city court Andrey Korotkov of dismissal of the jury, Yusup Temerkhanov’s attorney Murad Musaev reported.

Four out of six supposed gunmen killed on February, 14, in a special operation near the settlement of Michurino, Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, were identified. All of them were members of “Khasavyurt group”, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent was told in the Investigative Department of Dagestan today.

According to the final data of CEC of Armenia, turnout of voters at the presidential election made 60,05%.

Today in Vladikavkaz, another picket against the operation of the OJSC "Electrozink" was held. According to the organizers and participants of the action, no action against violations in the work of the factory is taken.

An action of protest with a demand to pay attention to the housing shareholders who were deceived by construction companies was held in Tbilisi.

The person shot dead today in a shoot-out with the police in Dagestan has been initially identified as Arsen Kuramagomedov, the leader of a terrorist grouping, said a source from law enforcement bodies.

A 27-year-old resident of Kizlyar was killed by unidentified persons in Groznenskaya Street.

In Stavropol, two young men have been detained, who are suspected of involvement in the murder of a policeman in Karachay-Cherkessia.

On February 15, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan adopted amendments to some legislative acts of the country, which are aimed at tightening the financial control over the activities of civil society institutions.

On February 15, Tina Sean, Deputy Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) arrived in Armenia with an observation mission.

The European Union made a second statement within the last week in connection with the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan.

As reported by the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), in Makhachkala, the woman- cohabiter of the suspected militant Nabi Nabiev, who was killed in a special operation, has surrendered to power agents and is evidencing.

The Azerbaijan's Supreme Court (SC) upheld the verdict obliging the newspaper "Azadlyg" to pay to Tagi Akhmedov, Chief of the Baku metro, a fine in the amount of 30,000 manats. A representative of the newspaper treated the decision as the pressure on the newspaper from the authorities.