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After Akhmed Zakaev spoke in support of the suspects killed by law enforcers in the village of Katar-Yurt, Shamsail Saraliev, a delegate to the State Duma from Chechnya, has claimed that the General Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia are to achieve the extradition of Akhmed Zakaev from the UK.

The resumption of traffic from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh across the territory controlled by Azerbaijan should be a subject of discussion at the talks on the Karabakh conflict, political analyst Armen Vardanyan believes.

Adam Delimkhanov, an advisor to Ramzan Kadyrov, addressed a native of Chechnya, who got into a fight with law enforcers at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny in Moscow. The Ramzan Kadyrov's advisor called on the Chechen native to renounce the opposition and promised in return that the leader of Chechnya would help him solve problems with the law.

During the week from January 18 to January 24, 2021, during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, eleven persons suffered in the conflict: six of them perished and five were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other sources.

The woman from Derbent, who complained to Ramzan Kadyrov about the detention of her 14-year-old daughter, is guilty of the girl's early marriage to a terrorist, Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has stated.

The forecast about 4000 casualties on the Armenian party during the autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict does not inspire confidence, Armenian experts have noted.

The activists of the local Navalny's office were detained in a coffee shop after the protest action; one of the office volunteers was arrested for five days. In Novorossiysk and Armavir, they detained those who shouted slogans or came out with posters, protesters have informed.

Actions in support of Alexei Navalny have covered several cities of the Stavropol Territory. Residents of Stavropol, the capital of the Territory, are now more active in protests, the marchers have noted.

Russia restricts civil rights and freedoms; activists and oppositionists are persecuted for political reasons, the Volgograd residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have explained their participation in the January 23 protest action.

One of the attackers on the North-Ossetian journalist has been detained; the other has fled abroad and will be put on the wanted list through the Interpol, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has announced.

Law enforcers must figure out how a 14-year-old girl from Derbent got married, Instagram users demand.

Russian law enforcers are detaining the participants of the unauthorized rally in Moscow in support in Alexei Navalny, acting harshly and using rubber batons. The force is applied to both men and women. Among the detained protesters is the spouse of the opposition leader Yulia Navalnaya, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The decrease in the number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan does not yet indicate any change in authorities' policies towards their opponents, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent believe.

The governor Vladimir Vladimirov should have taken a neutral position, and not broadcast calls against the participation of minors in the actions of supporters of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Instagram users have pointed out. They have stated that children are endangered not by protest organizers, but by those who use force against protesters.

The peacemakers have accompanied a group of 131 refugees from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. The total number of residents who have returned to the region has reached 50,521, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Employees of the budget-funded organizations in Chechnya have faced the demand to get vaccinated against coronavirus; otherwise they risk losing their jobs. Some of them have stated that they had made the decision to reject vaccination, and are ready to quit at their bosses' demand.

A minor girl, detained by law enforcers in Chechnya, has been released and sent home to Derbent, Shamil Khadulaev, a member of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, has informed. The child was held for more than three months without explaining anything to relatives, her mother has stated.

South-Ossetian authorities have tried to blame the opposition for the attack on the journalist, Ruslan Totrov, in Vladikavkaz, the widow of Inal Djabiev has stated.

Activists of the Stavropol Alexei Navalny's office and local farmers are preparing solo pickets, despite the police's warnings and detentions of Alexei's supporters.

The police drew a protocol against Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash on the organization of an unsanctioned action. The lawyer himself treated the above as a law enforcers' attempt to deprive local Alexei Navalny's supporters of legal aid, since the lawyer promised to defend them.