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The volunteers who render help to refugees from Syria have sent a letter to Yuri Kokov, the Acting Head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where they draw attention to the situation of Syrian Circassians.

In Volgograd, today is the 17th day of the hunger strike held by parents of many children and parents of children with disabilities. Many personal problems of the protesters have been solved, but they plan to continue in order to achieve solution of all the raised problems.

The Ukrainian alpine skier Bogdana Matsetskaya and her coach Oleg Matsetsky have refused to perform at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, protesting against the bloodshed during the violent dispersal of protests in Kiev, Ukrainian media report.

Today, the Kurortny Township of Adler hosted a press conference of the members of the punk band Pussy Riot, where Nadezhda Tolokonnikova stated that she was rudely treated by Sochi policemen.

A court from the Volgograd Region has sentenced a 62-year-old resident of the city of Volzhskiy to correctional labour for her false call about a bomb planted on a local HPP (hydropower plant), which she made on December 29, 2013, the day of the terror act in Volgograd.

In Yerevan, dozens of people organized a march of solidarity with the Euromaidan. They walked from the Victory Park to the building of the Ukrainian Embassy in Armenia, where activists expressed their concern about the developments in Kiev.

The 53 -year-old Alautdin Dadaev, a resident of the village of Novy Agachaul, Karabudakhkent District, who disappeared in Dagestan on February 17, was detained and is kept by the GOVD (City Interior Division) of the city of in police department Izberbash, said his wife Aslikhanum Dadaeva.

Today, the capital of Armenia hosted a march in support of Ukrainian protesters, organized by activists of oppositional parties and NGOs, about 20 persons in total.

Today in Sochi, Cossacks attacked the member of the Pussy Riot group, by spraying tear gas and beating them with whips, the girls and activists of the art-group "Voina" (War) have reported.

Today, Khadija Ismayilova, a journalist of the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty, was again questioned at the Investigating Department of Azerbaijan as a witness in a criminal case involving disclosure of state secrets. She was forbidden to leave Baku and Azerbaijan without prior informing investigators for the period of the inquiry.

Albina Khuzhokova, a resident of the city of Nartkala, Urvan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), claims that her husband Murat Tkhagapsoev, who had gone, along with his friend, to the city of Anapa, KrasnodarTerritory, to work on a construction site, has disappeared.

Today, Darya Polyudova, an activist of the organization named "Rot Front", who was detained in Novorossiysk, was sentenced to administrative arrest and fine, she said after the court session.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has extended the detention of all five defendants in the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya. Thus, the judge has granted the petition of the prosecutor Boris Loktionov.

On February 18, Sochi law enforcers detained the member of the Pussy Riot group for the third time during their stay in the city, said Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a group member.

As stated by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on four cases related to disappearances and deaths of residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia in 2000-2005 published on February 18, the decision has come into force.

The striking workers of the RMG-Gold and RMG-Copper have held a protest in front of the TV Company "Public Broadcaster of Georgia" with a demand to media people to be objective in reporting the situation at the enterprises.

Military experts polled by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent believe that recent more frequent violations of the ceasefire in the conflict zone in Nagorno-Karabakh will not lead to a resumption of a full-scale warfare.

The Magistrate Court of Judicial Precinct 406 of the Nizhny-Novgorod District of Moscow has found Rustam Djalilov, an observer of the edition "Caucasian Policy", guilty of involvement in the extremist organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir", which is banned in the territory of Russia.

Vladimir Sokolov, a native of Sochi, a member of the Public Anti-Corruption Committee, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he was not admitted to the Olympics, although he had his fan's passport and a ticket. Sokolov suggested that the decision was associated with his social activities.

Vladimir Luxuriya, an ex-deputy of the Italian Parliament and a transgender activist, said that he was twice detained by the police in Sochi. The latter denies the detentions.