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Investigators have begun examining the circumstances of the death of Khalid Khuguev, an ethnic Chechen, who had been convicted on charges of organizing terror acts in Moscow back in 1999.

Peacemakers have escorted another group of refugees from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. The total number of returnees has made up 52,545 persons, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

During the week of February 8-14, 2021, no information was received about any casualties or wounded persons in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Policemen did not interfere with the "Love is stronger than fear" action in the Stavropol Territory, the activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have informed.

The head of the Gudermes ROVD (District Interior Division) has posted a video of his explanatory conversation with three young men, in which he criticized them for supporting the publications of the so-called "Euroichkerians", who criticize Chechen authorities.

Three solo pickets were held in Volgograd demanding to release the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, and other political prisoners. Policemen treated one of the pickets as a group one, because a passerby helped the picketer collect her posters flying in the wind.

Law enforcers have detained three residents of Tarki who counteracted to drug dealing in the dwelling settlement, locals have stated.

Aslan Gabuev, a resident of North Ossetia, has become a popular food blogger thanks to his charity actions – he cooks food and gives it out to those in need. The "Life Food" Association of Charitable Funds is organizing nutrition at Vladikavkaz orphanages and treats pensioner in the local flea market.

Doctors have rendered help to 25 residents of Armenia who complained of abrasions and bruises as a result of the earthquake. In its turn, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has assured that no repetition of equally strong shocks in the near future is likely.

After termination of his criminal case, Khusein Tsetiev, a native of Chechnya, cannot find a decent job; his family, whom he supported before his arrest, is in dire need of money, while the compensations appointed by the court cannot solve these problems, his mother said.

Rescuers have found remains of three soldiers in the Kashatagh District; the total number of remains and bodies found in the battle zone has reached 1374, the Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh has reported.

The Russian vaccine contains no animal components; its use has already been approved in a number of Muslim countries, the developers of the "Sputnik V" vaccine have stated. However, believers have reasonable doubts about the safety of the vaccine; and some Muslims have come under the influence of conspiracy theories, clergymen and Islamic scholars have stated.

The National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia has banned journalists from working in the border villages of the Syunik Region without special permits. This ban is contrary to the Armenian Constitution and points to possible new territorial concessions from Yerevan, journalists have stated.

Two advocates of the Telegram chat moderators, who had been taken from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya, have left the republic without having achieved a meeting with their clients, but appealed in court their the non-admission to the brothers, the "Russian LGBT Network" has informed.

In the place of the explosion in a supermarket in Vladikavkaz, no traces of explosives were found; the version of a terror act is out of question, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated. No casualties were found under the rubble, the North-Ossetian authorities have reported.

At a picket in Makhachkala, female relatives of Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov, residents of Derbent, claimed that an investigator ordered to remove the advocate of the defendants and thus deprived them of their right to defence. A mother of Mirzaali Mirzaliev, the third defendant in the case on terrorism, complains that investigators are forcing him to incriminate Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov.

The reconstruction of the Tskhinvali water intake, as well as the construction of a school and eight more facilities will be stopped if MPs do not approve the budget of South Ossetia in the next month, the Minister of Construction announces. The opposition disrupted one more session of the parliament, because the agenda did not include the issue of the General Prosecutor's resignation, MP David Sanakoev explains.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) brought charges against three more Ingush natives in absentia in a case on an attack on Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre "E"), and put them on the wanted list, a source reported. One of the new suspects was arrested in absentia.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) approved a proposal of the Azerbaijan's authorities to pay 4000 euros to each of seven believers who complained about violation of their rights. Officials are trying to settle the claims lodged to the ECtHR before its verdict, since the European Court proactively awards higher compensations, lawyer Khalid Agaliev explains.

After their meeting with the MP, who invited them to discuss their demands with the mining company, workers of a Tkibuli mine agreed to suspend their protest strike. No official agreements have been reached yet; and if their demands are not met, the strike will be resumed, miners have stated.