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At the central railway station in Sochi, an unsanctioned picket against the promotion of homosexuality was held, local residents report, arguing that its participants and organizers were the visiting Americans.

The probability of terror acts and provocations during the Winter Olympics in Sochi cannot be ruled out, said the politicians, human rights activists, lawyers and journalists, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to their answers, at the maximum concentration of anti-terrorist forces in Sochi and its vicinities, other regions of Russia remain vulnerable.

The Olympic Park in Sochi has launched the "Adyg's House" and the "Circassian Yard", representing the culture of the Adyg nation – the indigenous population of the Black Sea coast. Within a few days, the "Adyg's House" was attended by about 30 representatives of the Circassian Diasporas, who came to the Olympic Games in Sochi from Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Germany, Israel, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.

On February 10, Roman Shikarev, one of the organizers of the rally against "residence-based discrimination" addressed the court with his complaint about the actions of officials of the city administration, who had banned illegally, in his opinion, the applied public event.

The participants of the roundtable in Makhachkala, organized by Lak villagers to discuss the issues of resettlement from the Novolak District of Dagestan, decided to organize a rally in the near future. The parties also came to the conclusion about the need to negotiate with Kumyk nationals to resolve the conflict in Karaman.

Anastasia Dulevskaya, a native of Samara, living in Dagestan and detained by law enforcement bodies in Makhachkala in early January for 24 hours, reports that she is afraid of further persecution by power agents. The young woman turned to the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) with a complaint, which was then delivered to the Prosecutor's Office.

The opposition and a number of public figures of Georgia say about provocations during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi, stating the presence in the stadium of Presidents of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as well as clouds on the map of Georgia over these regions during the passage of the Georgian Olympians.

Opening of the Olympic Games in Sochi; snowy and frosty weather in the Caucasus; resignation statement of Batumi Mayor and mass prisoners' hunger strike in Georgia; death of three people in Cherkessk SIZO and ROVD of Karachay-Cherkessia; hunger strike of parents of large families and of children with disabilities in Volgograd, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 3-9, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week from February 3 to February 9, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus affected at least 15 people; 14 of them were killed and one person was wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Albert Demchenko, a member of the Russian luge (sledge) team has won the silver medal at the Games in Sochi in singles. After the races that ended on Sunday, the gold went to the German athlete Felix Loch, and the bronze – to Armin Zoegeler from Italy, the "Interfax" reports.

The Moscow-based office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has hosted a presentation of the bulletin "Three years of 'stability'"," telling about the situation in Northern Caucasus during the period from autumn 2009 to autumn 2012.

The Russian Olympic team secured its gold medal well before the end of the competition in team figure skating. Earlier, on February 8 – the first day of the team event, the Russian figure skating team came took the first place almost from the very beginning.

On Sunday, the Russian biathlete Olga Vilukhina won the silver medal in the sprint race at the Olympic Games in Sochi.

Olga Graf has won a bronze medal in the 3000-meter skating race, bringing the first medal for the Russian national team at the Olympic Games in Sochi.

Igor Kharchenko, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", who had been arrested for five days in Krasnodar, was released on Sunday.

Abubekir Murzakan, the leader of the movement "Adyge Khekuzh-Circassia" and a participant of the action against the Sochi Olympics held on February 7 in Nalchik, said that three activists detained after the action may have been beaten at OVD (Interior Division) No. 1.

The Dagestani public organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights" has launched a portal "Daptar.ru" and positions it as the first online resource dedicated to problems of Dagestani women.

The adoption by the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev of amendments to the legislation on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is another repressive step against the country's civil society, says the statement of the Azerbaijani Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS).

The historical items presented at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games have demonstrated that the Caucasophobia and Circassiaphobia are raised to the level of real Russia's politics, said Asker Sokht, the head of the public organization "Adyge Khase" of the Krasnodar Territory.

Arthur Aidinov, who had been sentenced by the court to a two-month arrest, died in SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 2 of the city of Cherkessk under unclear circumstances. After detention, Aidinov was tortured at the police station, his relatives and advocate claim.