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The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) upheld the verdict of guilty to journalist Polad Aslanov. The sentenced journalist claimed that he would continue his hunger strike in protest against the unjustified criminal prosecution.

The Azerbaijani armed forces use small- and large-calibre weapons to shell the immediate vicinity of the villages in the Syunik Region of Armenia, the Ombudsman of Armenia claims today. The head of the Agarak village community also reports about the shelling.

A resident of Buynaksk was detained in a case on transferring more than 370,000 roubles to support terrorist organizations, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

The newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" got copies of photographic tables prepared by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), which contained the information about the detention of 108 people, some of whom fell victim to extrajudicial executions. The "Novaya Gazeta" announced a release of an interview with a Chechen law enforcer who witnessed the executions.

Today, in Moscow, a judge has decided to withdraw from consideration a complaint about the arrest of Said-Muhammad Djumaev, since the defendant is in quarantine for coronavirus and is not able to participate in a court hearing.

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.