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The “Amadea” yacht, owned by Dagestani entrepreneur Suleiman Kerimov, has been detained for entering the Fiji exclusive economic zone without permission from the authorities, the local police report.

Taubi Kuchmenov from the village of Khasanya has perished in Ukraine. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, authorities have confirmed the deaths of at least eight natives of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) there.

The Zheleznovodsk City Court has fined a student of a local technical school by 40,000 roubles for a poster discrediting militaries that he raised during a lecture.

The court has fined by 30,000 roubles a female resident of the Kagalnitsky District, finding her guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces after her comments placed in a social network.

In Georgia, NGOs demand from the government to make public the completed questionnaire received from the European Union (EU) for becoming a candidate country.

The true death toll in the special operation in Ukraine cannot be assessed until it is over, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

Most of the Ukrainians who arrived in Azerbaijan in connection with hostilities in their homeland are accommodated with their relatives and friends, but they need foodstuffs and psychological support, activists of Azerbaijani NGOs inform.

The threshold of peacemakers' jurisdiction is unknown; the incident with the MPs has raised the issue of the Russian contingent's mandate, Naira Airumyan and Tevan Pogosyan have noted.

On February 1, Aslan Kambiev, a winner of the Russian and European championships in judo and sambo, received a gunshot wound from which he later died, but the attacker is at large, and the investigation is inactive, Kambiev's relatives have stated in their appeal to the head of the branch for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

A supporter of the “Islamic State”* from Stavropol planned to commit a terror act at a railway station, and elements of an explosive device were seized from his place, the FSB reported.

A military man who was wounded in a shootout near the village of Parukh has been hospitalized in Stepanakert, and his condition is improving, relatives of the wounded man report.

In its annual report, the US Department of State noted serious human rights problems remained in Azerbaijan.

Opposition MPs issued an appeal in which they called on residents of South Ossetia to vote in the second round of the presidential election for Alan Gagloev.

A court in Taganrog imposed a fine of 30,000 roubles on a local resident, finding him guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

Alexander Mukhortov, a resident of Sochi, who had complained about threats after his material about torture used in a Saratov colony appeared in media, has been transferred from the isolation cell of a prison hospital in Adygea to a ward with normal living conditions, his wife has informed.

The Parliament of Georgia approved the law "On Amnesty" in the third final reading. It will affect prisoners who had committed their crimes prior to January 1, 2004.

The resident of Rostov-on-Don, who poured paint over the letters Z and V on a garage, was kept overnight at the police station.

Russian militaries have failed to explain the reasons for the ban on the entry of Armenian oppositional MPs to Nagorno-Karabakh, Gegam Manukyan, an MP, has stated.

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have violated the ceasefire near the dwelling settlement of Furukh; one serviceman of the Nagorno-Karabakh forces was wounded, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

In their homeland, the Azerbaijani volunteers who have left for Ukraine may be criminally prosecuted under the article on mercenarism, the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.