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Now, there are already four activists who criticized the Olympic Games in Sochi and were detained for that in Rostov-on-Don. Eduard Nikolaev, a member of the unregistered "December 5 Party", is the fourth one. On January 22, this was reported by Alyona Rudsko, the coordinator of the "Citizen Observer" Project for the Rostov Region.

The Olympic construction has caused damage to the Sochi environment and natural reserves of the region; and in the course of preparing the Games, the authorities strengthened pressure on civil society activists, said the participants of the press conference held in Moscow on January 22.

About 300 people gathered in front of the former building of the parliament in Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi to express their support to Euromaidan protesters in Kiev, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In the city of Taganrog, Rostov Region, policemen detained Ivan Sedush, a local TV reporter, and kept him for four hours. The detainee has associated it with the Olympic Torch Relay held in Rostov-on- Don; in their turn, the police argue that he was not detained, but just invited for a talk.

Today, officials of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of Germany, Italy and Slovenia have reported that they had received emails with threats of terror acts against their athletes who go to the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The rules are posted on the official website of the Winter Olympics: fans are not allowed to bring any dangerous items to the sporting facilities, signal flares and big bags. Violators will be deprived of accreditation and fan passport.

Kalsyn Akkaziev, a native of Dagestan, states that he is persecuted by law enforcers of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, where he lived before 2012. According to Akkaziev, he was put on the operative wanted list as a potential terrorist; therefore, he is afraid of provocations. The police of Yugra deny that Akkaziev had been put on the wanted list.

The National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Hungary has received a letter containing the terrorist threats on the eve of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. This was reported today by Zsolt Borkai, Chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Hungary.

American and Sochi media report on four wanted female suicide bombers who are allegedly willing to blow themselves up during the Olympic Games in Sochi. The orientation report describing one of them has been disseminated on blogs in last August: it was reported that the potential female suicide bomber is in North Ossetia and that she can commit a terror act in one of the Russian cities. Internet users note the contradictions in the disseminated orientation reports.

Imprisoned natives of Northern Caucasus, who are serving their sentences in the penal colony No. 7 of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) Department for the Republic of Mordovia, complain about oppressions on a national basis committed by the administration of the penitentiary institution.

On January 21, in Baku, members of NGOs and opposition parties of Azerbaijan met PACE Co-Rapporteurs Pedro Agramunt Font de Mora and Joseph Debono Gresh. Civil society activists and oppositionists have expressed their dissatisfaction with the attitude of the PACE Co-Rapporteurs, who, according to the activists, were trying to smooth the problems and shortcomings existing in the country.

Judge Yulia Rogova from the Kirov District Court of Astrakhan has found Igor Stenin, one of the organizers of the "People's Assembly" in Astrakhan guilty of disorderly conduct and sentenced him to an administrative fine in the amount of 1000 roubles.

The operational headquarters to eliminate the consequences of the disaster that struck the city of Krasnodar has made the decision to introduce an emergency regime. Public utility services do not make any predictions on the timing for the restoration of life support systems.

In Sochi, residents of Vishnevy Lane claim that, starting from January 9, electricity supply is being cut off in their houses for 12 and more hours. "Kubanenergo" spokesman has reported that the cable line in the area is damaged and that a diesel generator would be connected in the nearest future.

Today, Vladislav Ryazantsev, the coordinator of the "Left-Wing Front" for the Rostov Region, has been arrested for 15 days in Rostov-on-Don. The opposition member announced a hunger strike.

The prosecution of Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov has to do with redistribution of spheres of influence in Dagestan, said the experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the morning on January 20, the 105th day of the Olympic Torch Relay began in Volgograd, where the end of last December was marked by explosions at the railway station and in a trolleybus. The Relay was held at minus 20 degrees Centigrade, and with very few spectators.

In the village of Ashaga-Stal of the Suleiman-Stal District of Dagestan, FSB combat engineers have defused a radio-controlled improvised explosive device (IED).

In Russia, the year of 2013 was marked by the attack on civil society and the critics of the Kremlin, launched by the authorities in the previous year. This was stated in the section devoted to the Russian Federation in the world report of the organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW).

Four oppositional parties of Armenia have addressed the Constitutional court for recognition of the new Law "On Mandatory Accumulative Pension System" as unconstitutional and for suspension of the law until the final decision.