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The Ingush Council of Alims (Islam experts) made a decision to expel drug dealers from religious communities after the leader of the republic had called them on to join in solving the problem of drug trafficking.

While the court was considering his appeal against a 16-year sentence in a high treason case, Polad Aslanov, an Azerbaijani journalist, announced a hunger strike. At the court of appeal, he claimed protraction of his case consideration, demanded a fair trial and transfer to house arrest.

The South-Ossetian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has appointed a new examination in Inal Djabiev's case; it will be conducted in Moscow. Experts who have already made their conclusions will have to justify their conclusions, Oksana Sotieva, Inal's widow, has explained.

Kureish Djandigov, Islam Zhandigov, and Adam Khashiev are charged with transporting weapons and providing housing and food to members of the "Imarat Kavkaz"*, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports. Relatives of Kureish Djandigov were also detained in Nazran, eyewitnesses said.

During the week of January 25-31, 2021, there was no information about any casualties and wounded person 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.

Because of her arrest, Malika Djikaeva, an Instagram blogger from North Ossetia, is unable to take her regular treatment at hospital, which leads to auto-aggression bouts, Inara Bedoeva, her advocate, has stated. Malika has applied for her transfer from colony to SIZO (pre-trial prison) as she fears the unknown, Magomed Alamov, a human rights defender, has suggested.

Vaan Badasyan, the leader of the "United Armenia" Karabakh Party, was accused of calling to execute Nikol Pashinyan.

The murdered wife of a former prosecutor from North Ossetia, Igor Cheldiev, had complained of domestic violence to her friends and relatives, her sister, Kristina Anokhina, has stated. The problem of domestic violence is exacerbated in law enforcers' families, since the latter feel their impunity, said Agunda Bekoeva, a co-founder of the "Khotae" movement.

An investigation conducted by The Insider and Bellingcat has revealed new details in the case on the Nalchik human rights defender Timur Kuashev's death, a lawyer for the victim's family reports. The release of the journalistic investigation will not be a reason for law enforcers to reopen the investigation into his death, a father of Timur Kuashev suggests.

A court in Chechnya has found the arrest of the lawyer, Sergey Marakov, accused of hooliganism, to be legitimate. Marakov repeatedly helped his clients and colleagues for free, but after his arrest his family has faced financial difficulties, since there is practically no support, said the lawyer's wife.

Responsibility for Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, who was detained after a brawl with law enforcers at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny, rests on all his relatives, Djumaev's uncle told the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament.

A detained native of Chechnya was accused of using violence against law enforcers at a protest action in support of Alexei Navalny. In the course of the interrogation, the young man pleaded guilty, a source from the law enforcement bodies reported.

Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a correspondent of the Dagestani newspaper "Chernovik" (Rough Draft), accused in a case on financing of terrorism, refused to admit the charge brought against him and called it "abstract."

Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, who used violence against law enforcers at a Moscow rally in support of Alexei Navalny, was detained in the Pskov Region.