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Since January 11, relatives cannot establish the whereabouts of Movsar Rashidov, who had abdicated, in the presence of Ramzan Kadyrov, his son Magomed Rashidov. They suggest that he was kidnapped by power agents.

The Embassy of Iran in Baku has issued a statement, blaming "certain media structures of Azerbaijan for unwillingness to expand bilateral relations." Azerbaijani civil activists believe that the statement referred to the publications that had caused the inquiry into the activities of the ReAl.

Today, the court of general jurisdiction of the Yerevan districts Kentron and Nork-Marash has sentenced Arsen Mkrtumyan, Gagik Mikaelyan and Soso Margaryan to three years in prison each, finding them guilty of using violence against policemen during riots in Yerevan.

The three young men, killed at night on January 30 in Shali had been instructed by Syrian militants to attack policemen and commit terror acts, said a law enforcement source.

On February 1, the Baku City Prosecutor's Office refused to open a criminal case about the torture of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov during his custody at the police. His advocate intends to challenge the refusal.

Since the start of the year, at least five persons were killed in Azerbaijan, whom power agents declared to be religious extremists. The level of terror threat in the country is on the rise, believe the political analysts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The advocates of Giyas Ibragimov and Bairam Mamedov, convicted in Azerbaijan for applying graffiti on the monument to Geidar Aliev, have turned to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asking to consider their complaints in the priority order.

Four persons were killed and one person detained after giving an armed resistence to law enforcers, the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan has reported today.

In the Shelkovsky District of Chechnya, power agents detained seven local residents who were about to go to Syria to join the militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, law enforcers have reported.

The 36-year-old Nadezhda Degtyaryova, who committed suicide after the judgement to evict her out into the street, has been buried in Sochi. Nadezhda's mother blames the persons involved in the alienation of their apartment of her daughter's death.

The reconciliation of Isa Yamadaev with Ramzan Kadyrov could be formal; therefore, the development of a conflict situation is possible, said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", in their comments on the inquiry into the attempt on the head of Chechnya.