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The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has announced the detention of two Chechen natives, who, imitating his voice, tried to extort money from a businessman from Surgut into the Akhmat Kadyrov’s Fund. The video posted by Kadyrov shows the detainees’ confession. The police of the KhMAO (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, where Surgut is located) said they did not take part in the detention.

On January 18, lawyers of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the fact of a special operation carried out in a Dagestani village of Vremenny (a part of the village of Gimry) in 2014. According to the lawyers of the HRC "Memorial", violations were committed during the above special operation.

Bodies of the militants killed in the Chechen capital on December 17-18, 2016 have not been finally given out to their family members, who learned that their killed relatives were buried in unmarked graves near Grozny. Meanwhile, the law enforcement agencies do not comment on the information.

At the request of Interpol and the FBI, the law enforcement authorities have detained programmer Stanislav Lisov, who arrived to Spain from the Rostov Region on vacation.

On January 18, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes continued listening to final speeches of the defendants in the "Nardaran case". All of them pleaded not guilty and associated their prosecution with fight against injustice and lawlessness. The defendants have also reminded the Court of the use of torture against them after their detention. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent who attended the court hearing.

On January 17, the Sumgait Court of Appeal of Azerbaijan held a preliminary hearing on the appeal against the sentence of Ikram Ragimov, editor-in-chief of the website "realliq.info", accused of defamation. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Elchin Sadygov, an advocate of Ikram Ragimov.

In October, November and December of 2016, in the territory of North Ossetia-Alania, there were no victims of the armed conflict between power agents and militants. These are the findings of the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On January 17, Vladislav Ryazantsev, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", who was attacked in Rostov-on-Don, received the decision on appointment of forensic medical examination to be carried out without his involvement.

The Court of Appeal has closed the consideration of an appeal filed against the arrests of four internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Jabrail District of Azerbaijan, who were arrested for involvement in a protest action against power cuts-off in villages for IDPs. An advocate of the arrested people announced his intention to seek for review of the Court's decision.

When commenting on the first criminal case opened under Article 205.6 of the Russian Criminal Code, adopted in the framework of the "Irina Yarovaya's package of laws", lawyers have noted that the practice of criminal prosecution for failure to inform the police of a crime sharpens the contradictions between the law and the norms of legal culture and the specifics of tribal relations accepted among residents of the Caucasus.

At 1:00 p.m. Moscow time of January 17, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime was introduced within a separate section of the Buynaksk District and the adjacent Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan. According an official from the Dagestani operational headquarters of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), law enforcers are searching for militants and their accomplices.