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Today, the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala was to consider extending the period of detention in custody for Murad Shuaibov, suspected of illegal possession of weapon. Judge refused to extend the arrest.

The district police inspector suspected of killing three persons at a cafe in Makhachkala was arrested for two months. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a representative of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for Dagestan.

The killed ex-Deputy Minister of Construction of Ingushetia, member of non-governmental movement “Mekh-Khel” Sultan-Girey Khashagulgov is suspected of preparation of assaults at judges and investigators, the investigation reports.

Today State Duma of the Russian Federation gave its consent to deprive Deputy from “Fair Russia” party Oleg Mikheev representing Volgograd region of parliamentary privilege.

A special operation on search of leaders of the gunmen is going on in the high mountain Vedeno district of Chechen Republic, a source in power-wielding structures of the republic reported. According to him, law enforcement officers do not rule out that leader of the “Caucasus Emirate” Dokku Umarov might be hiding himself there.

In the evening of February, 15, unidentified persons activated an explosive device in the settlement of Babayurt, Babayurt district of Dagestan. There were no victims or injured people.

The policeman knew the men he shot down in the cafe in Makhachkala, a source in law enforcement bodies of the town reported. The main version of the murder is a quarrel that emerged from hostile relations, Committee of Inquiry of Russia in Dagestan informed.

Today Lefortovsky district court of Moscow decided to submit a request to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to provide a translation of the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights on the case of the storm of the theatre centre in Dubrovka street.

Today defence of the defendant on the case of murder of ex-colonel Yuri Budanov appealed against the resolution of judge of Moscow city court Andrey Korotkov of dismissal of the jury, Yusup Temerkhanov’s attorney Murad Musaev reported.

Four out of six supposed gunmen killed on February, 14, in a special operation near the settlement of Michurino, Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, were identified. All of them were members of “Khasavyurt group”, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent was told in the Investigative Department of Dagestan today.

Self-explosion of suicide bomber in Khasavyurt and subsequent special operations in Dagestan; putting Givi Targamadze, a Georgian MP, on the Russia's wanted list; verdict to policemen accused of torturing a detainee in the Stavropol Territory; dissolution of jurymen in Budanov's murder case; deprivation of Shirshov, Russia's State Duma Deputy from the Krasnodar Territory, of his deputy's immunity; announcement in Azerbaijan of a reward for an ear of the writer Ailisli, who wrote a novel about the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict; mass poisoning in South Ossetia, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of February 11-17, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

An action of protest with a demand to pay attention to the housing shareholders who were deceived by construction companies was held in Tbilisi.

The person shot dead today in a shoot-out with the police in Dagestan has been initially identified as Arsen Kuramagomedov, the leader of a terrorist grouping, said a source from law enforcement bodies.

A 27-year-old resident of Kizlyar was killed by unidentified persons in Groznenskaya Street.

In Stavropol, two young men have been detained, who are suspected of involvement in the murder of a policeman in Karachay-Cherkessia.