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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should stop ignoring serious human rights violations associated with the preparation and holding of the Olympic Games in Sochi, says an open letter to the IOC President Thomas Bach from the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI).

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the complaint of Nadezhda Tsapok against the verdict of the first instance, under which she was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of fraud, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Hadji Murat Gatsalov, the Mufti of North Ossetia has proposed to establish a joint permanent body including religious, public and state structures that will supervise and monitor the situation with extremism in the republic.

The Turkish authorities have decided to deport Makhir Zeinalov, 28, a citizen of Azerbaijan and a journalist from the country. Ankara has accused him of violating the Turkish laws. Zeinalov rejects the accusation and treats his deportations as a violation of the freedom of speech.

Igor Stenin, the organizer of the rally in memory of those killed in the terror acts in Volgograd, which was scheduled in Astrakhan for February 6, has filed a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office against the Mayoralty of Astrakhan, which abolished the earlier issued permit.

In central Baku, they have started mass resettlement of residents; they plan to demolish about 10,000 old buildings inhabited by about 40,000 people, the authorities of the Azerbaijani capital have stated. They explain these measures by the need to improve the city and plan to create greenery zones there.

On the fourth day of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, eight sets of medals were competed. The only medal of the Russian team was the silver medal won by the speed skater Olga Fatkulina in the women's 500-meter race.

At the court session on the case of Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), a testimony of another "secret witness" was presented. He said that Zarema had recruited a native of Dagestan for participation in illegal armed formations (IAFs).

In Volgograd, parents with many children and parents of children with disabilities are on their hunger strike for the eighth day already. On February 10, the venue of the protest action was visited by investigators of the Regional Investigating Committee, who interviewed the protesters. On Tuesday, the hunger-strikers, some of whom have continued health worsening, were visited by employees of the Prosecutor's Office.

To date, the spectators of the Winter Olympics in Sochi have bought 925,000 tickets, said Dmitry Perlin, the ticketing programme director of the Organizing Committee (OC) "Sochi-2014". Empty seats during competitions are filled in by volunteers, said Alexandra Kosterina, the spokesperson of the OC.

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.