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The New York-based International Committee to Protect Journalists expresses concern about the health state of Polad Aslanov, the editor of the “xeberman.com”, who is on a hunger strike in custody. The human rights defenders call on the Azerbaijan’s authorities to release the journalist.

On January 17, activists held three solo pickets in the centre of Makhachkala, where they demanded to release journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev and political prisoners.

On January 17, in Tbilisi, near the office of the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission (GNERC), an action was held by several dozen people, who protested against the increase in electricity tariffs.

Ramzan Kadyrov, who has declared that Ingushes have no claims against him, has deliberately ignored the appeals of the Ingush party, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. In their opinion, the head of Chechnya is trying to reduce the level of the confrontation that he himself had initiated.

None of the military servicemen, who were taken prisoners of war (POWs) by Azerbaijan on November 16, 2021, was recognized as a victim; six of them, including three officers, have been arrested on charges of violating the order of service.

The decision in the case of the murder of Natalia Estemirova, a Chechen human rights defender, has been declared final by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR); the Grand Chamber thereof has rejected the revision request.

The code of rules for the tourists visiting the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) is ready and is now agreed with the republic's government.

All the relatives of Tumso Abdurakhmanov, kidnapped in Chechnya in December, are back at large, according to the blogger. The "Vayfond" Association has unconfirmed information about the release of the relatives of Mansur Sadulaev, its founder.

Azerbaijani journalist Polad Aslanov has been continuing his hunger strike for 12 days already, His health state deteriorated, and his weight has fallen to 40 kilograms, said Gyulmira Aslanova, a spouse of the activist.

A native of Dagestan demanded from a driver to stop a bus in a wrong place and began to insult the driver, who responded in the same way, using foul language. After that, the young man entered into a dispute with bus passengers, reports a video made from a cab of the bus driver and released today on the Internet.

The “Grozny” state-run TV Channel and administrators of Instagram public accounts removed a number of posts after Ramzan Kadyrov had ordered to remove from social media all hostile remarks against the Ingush people.

During the week of January 10-16, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The native of Dagestan, who was detained for insulting passengers in a Moscow bus, has expressed regret about his words, as it follows from the video released today.

The wife of the convicted journalist, Polad Aslanov, went out to a picket near the building of the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), demanding a meeting with the GPO head. Law enforcers pushed the picketer away from the entrance to the building.

Djavidan Mamedli, a conscript soldier, has perished due to careless handling firearms; an investigation has been launched, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported, not specifying the dwelling settlement where the accident occurred.

In a dwelling settlement in an outskirt of Tbilisi, a man perished during an action held by forced migrants, who demanded to remove them from an emergency building. The police are investigating the case about bringing the man to suicide.

The native of Dagestan, who rudely insulted bus passengers in Moscow, must apologize to them and to his fellow countrymen, on behalf of whom he had tried to speak, Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan, has stated.

The statements of the Chechen party about a new page in the Chechen-Ingush relations remain groundless, until the border agreement is revised; and while Kadyrov is trying to hush up the conflict, and not solve it, Ingush users of Instagram publics have pointed out.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has instructed to remove any hostile statement against residents of Ingushetia posted in social networks, Akhmed Dudaev the Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information of Chechnya, has stated.

Politicians and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan have condemned the conviction of Ali Aliev, the leader of the "Citizens and Development" Party, on charges of defamation. They treat the case as a "political order" and demanded the release of the oppositionist.