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During the week of January 11-17, 2016, at least six persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, four persons were killed, and two others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In Makhachkala, activists have encountered in a hospital a 59-year-old man, who claims that he had spent the past seventeen years in slavery at a brick factory in Dagestan. This was reported by volunteers of the movement "Alternative".

Change of the ruling elite in Kuban, pressure on Circassian activists in Adygea, resonant sentences against activists in the Rostov Region, explosion in a multi-storey building in Volgograd, hunger strike of transport workers in Astrakhan, start of the struggle for a new Constitution of the Republic of Kalmykia, protests by truck drivers against the system "Platon", these and other events occurred in 2015 in the Southern Federal District (SFD) of Russia.

A body of a militant killed by law enforcers is removed from the ruins of the destroyed private house. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

In Yerevan, a criminal case has been instituted in connection with the attack on activist Suzi Gevorkyan. She has undergone the appointed forensic medical examination, and it has confirmed the diagnosis of "brain concussion", reports the Investigating Committee of Armenia.

The ecologist Valery Brinikh has submitted a cassation complaint against the permit to tap his telephone calls examine his email massages.

Said-Emin Gazaliev, a resident of the Shali District of Chechnya, has confessed to arsoning the ziyart (mausoleum) of Durdi-Sheikh. After his confession, he together with his relatives was subjected to public condemnation by local residents.

The court has pronounced the decision on the two-month arrest of Garnik Markaryan, the leader of the Armenian "Homeland and Honour" Party, who is suspected of involvement in the grouping of Arthur Vardanyan. Garnik Markaryan treats his prosecution as a political reprisal.

In Nalchik, the active phase of the special operation has been completed, and law enforcers are searching for bodies of killed militants under the ruins of the destroyed house. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

According to the preliminary information, the third suspected militant, who was shelling law enforcers from a private house in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, was shot and killed. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria.

The actions of the policemen, who have failed to promptly respond to the shelling of people near Naryn-Kala Fortress, do not comply with the Federal Law "On the police". This opinion has been expressed by Magomed Shamilov, the head of the law enforcers' trade union.