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Today Ramazan Abdulatipov acting as Head of the republic since recently declared that he intended to fight against corruption, unemployment and solve the problem of security in Dagestan.

This morning two families, six persons all in all, who were evacuated from Syria at night of January, 23, arrived from Moscow to Nalchik by train, Anzor Kurashinov, Head of the Department of the affairs of repatriates of the Ministry of mass media, non-governmental and religious organizations of Kabardino-Balkaria, reported.

Today candidates for presidency of Armenia Grant Bagratyan, Raffi Ovannisyan and Paruir Airikyan issued a statement demanding from the authorities to produce the register of electors who left the country in order to avoid the use of their votes at the election of Head of the state.

Georgian oppositional party “United National Movement” refused to take part in public hearings devoted to consideration of amendments to the Constitution initiated by coalition the “Georgian Dream”.

On January, 25, residents of the Armenian settlement of Megradzor dissatisfied with construction of gold ore processing workshop in the territory of the settlement held an action of protest near the President’s residence in Yerevan.

SOCAR state oil company of Azerbaijan prolonged the term of a contract on development of condensate deposit “Shakh-Deniz” till 2036, Vice-president of SOCAR Elshad Nasirov informed.

On January, 25, the court in Vladikavkaz prolonged anaesthetist Marat Gunashev’s custody term till April, 27, the detainee’s attorney Zaur Magomedov informed.

Two explosions happened in the town of Derbent, Dagestan: one under a car and the other at the entrance of a dwelling house. No one got injured.

On January, 26, about 700 Cossacks held a meeting in Rostov park named after Sobino demanding to acknowledge them a nation. Representatives of Don and Terek Cossacks took part in the action.

Today actions of protest organized by an unregistered party “New Force” under a joint slogan “Stavropol region is no Caucasus” whose participants demanded separation of Stavropol region from North-Caucasian Federal Okrug and toughening migration regime there concerning natives of North-Caucasian republics and the countries of Central Asia passed off in a number of towns of Russia.

The drivers of minibuses in Tbilisi decided to suspend transportation causing problems with passenger traffic for the transport network in the capital of Georgia.

A confrontation between participants of an unauthorized protest action in support of residents of Ismailly and the police in the centre of Baku resulted in mass detentions of the participants. The names of 41 detainees are known.

On January, 24, the day of an anniversary of a decree of Organizational Bureau of RCP (b) (Russian Communist party of Bolsheviks) “On decossackization” the Cossacks sent a message to the President with a demand to acknowledge them a nation.

The municipal authorities of Nevinnomyssk and Stavropol did not authorize meetings within the framework of the action initiated by nationalist organizations “Stavropol region is no Caucasus!”. The organizers declared that they would come out all the same.

On January, 24, Caesar Chocheli, ex-Governor of Mtskheta-Tianeti district (Eastern Georgia), was detained for suspicion of financial malpractice, in particular, money laundering, a representative of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia reported. A charge is expected to be officially brought against Chocheli today.

Leader of a paramilitary group (PMG) under the alias of “Pilek” was killed in the mountains of Chechnya during a special operation together with Gakaev brothers, Head of Chechnya declared.

In the evening of January, 24, a car belonging to Ali Pashaev, director of one of the schools, was exploded in Kaitag district of Dagestan. Nobody was injured as a result of the incident, a source in law enforcement bodies reported.

Today the Court of Appeal of Armenia under the chairmanship of judge Avetisyan having considered an appeal of the attorneys of four young oppositional activists against the verdicts of general jurisdiction and the Appellate court decided to return the claim for revision, Press Service of oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) reported.

Today a meeting of representatives of the authorities of South Ossetia with co-chairpersons of Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia from EU, UNO and OSCE was held in Tskhinvali. The agenda of the forthcoming on March, 26-27, 23rd round of negotiations was discussed with the delegation of co-chairpersons of Geneva discussions.

Today one of the candidates for presidency, leader of “National Self-determination” association Paruir Airikyan, is going to join another candidate for presidency, Director of “Radio-Ai” Andreas Gukasyan, who went on a hunger strike earlier.