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Ibragim Nurov, 25, a resident of the aul of Abram-Tybe, Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory, who was killed on December 30 near the village of Kayasula, had been earlier kidnapped by unidentified persons on December 27 from the mosque in Neftekumsk, his relatives assert.

Today, about two thousand people took part in the memorial rally about the victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the press service of the head of Dagestan.

Rasul Gasanov, an assistant to the Public Prosecutor of the city of Buynaksk, was in his car, when an explosion occurred underneath. Gasanov died on the spot, said Rasul Temerbekov, the spokesman of the local Investigating Committee.

The explosion in Volgograd trolleybus killed 16 people, including the suicide bomber, not 15, as reported earlier, the spokesman of the local Ministry of Public Health said today. Thus, the total number of casualties of the explosions on December 29 and 30 is 36 people.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports with reference to the latest data of power agents that the explosion of a police car in Khasavyurt on December 30 claimed two human lives.

The US Govt has offered its Russian counterpart a full support in ensuring security of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, said Caitlin Hayden, the press secretary of the US National Security Council.

107 million roubles have been transferred to the social care bodies of the Volgograd Region, engaged in payments to casualties' families and victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd. On December 30, financial aid was paid to 17 people, said the regional governor Sergey Bozhenov.

The death toll of the trolleybus explosion in Volgograd has reached 16 people, including the suicide bomber. At night on December 31, a wounded man died in hospital, said a medical source from the Southern Federal District (SFD).

The mountain village of Akhshtyr, Adler District of Sochi, has been deprived for five years of reliable water supply and is cut off from public transport and other infrastructure because of the Olympic construction, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports.

The police have detained about 30 members of the "People's Assembly" in Volgograd, organized in the context of recent terror acts. According to eyewitnesses, the rally was attended by about 200 people, but the police began to disperse and detain them.

Terror act organizers are successful in the Volgograd Region because of the weakness of local power agents, who are unable to prevent suicide attacks, said Andrei Serenko, the coordinator of the "Club of Experts of Volgograd". In order to prevent terror acts, it is necessary to consolidate the society, said political scientist Ruslan Kurbanov.

The death toll of the two terror acts committed in Volgograd on December 29 and 30 includes 33 people, including the suicide bombers. The Volgograd Regional Administration has spread the list of those wounded which contains the names of 64 people.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the defence of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, who was sentenced to penal settlement for damage to the fence of the so-called "summer cottage of the Governor" of the Krasnodar Territory, has challenged the court's decision. This was reported by Alexander Popkov, advocate of the sentenced ecologist.

According to the recent information, 41 persons suffered in the explosion in the trolley-bus in Volgograd. Of them, 27 persons were hospitalized. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Health. According to the preliminary information, the explosion killed a 5-year-old child.

Suspected militants, who were killed on Monday during a special operation in Kabardino-Balkaria, were involved in the murders of two staff members of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as UFSIN). This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies of the republic.

According to the preliminary information, an explosive device in a trolley-bus in Volgograd was activated by a male suicide bomber. This was reported by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

On February 7, 2014, Sochi will host the opening ceremony of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. In the context of the ongoing conflict in Northern Caucasus, the "Caucasian Knot" is hereby publishing a chronicle of sabotage and terror acts committed in the pre-Olympic year in the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD).

Terror act at the railway station in Volgograd; publication of names of plenipotentiary envoys of the leader of Dagestan in four regional districts; abolition of direct election of regional leader in Karachay-Cherkessia; adoption in Kabardino-Balkaria in the first reading of the law to abolish the election of regional leader, and election of Arsen Kanokov as the senator from the region; ratification of gas agreements with Russia by Armenian Parliament and opposition protest; Russian figure skating championship in Sochi, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 23-29, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Death toll in the terror act in Volgograd has reached 18 persons. At night of December 30, Andrei Zadorin, who was in critical condition, died in hospital. This was reported by a source from the health care institutions of the Southern Federal District (SFD).

During the week from December 23 to December 29, 2013, the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus brought sufferings to at least 22 people; of them, 15 persons lost their lives, and seven more were wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.