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Today, Vladislav Ryazantsev, the coordinator of the "Left-Wing Front" for the Rostov Region, has been arrested for 15 days in Rostov-on-Don. The opposition member announced a hunger strike.

The prosecution of Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov has to do with redistribution of spheres of influence in Dagestan, said the experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the morning on January 20, the 105th day of the Olympic Torch Relay began in Volgograd, where the end of last December was marked by explosions at the railway station and in a trolleybus. The Relay was held at minus 20 degrees Centigrade, and with very few spectators.

In the village of Ashaga-Stal of the Suleiman-Stal District of Dagestan, FSB combat engineers have defused a radio-controlled improvised explosive device (IED).

In Russia, the year of 2013 was marked by the attack on civil society and the critics of the Kremlin, launched by the authorities in the previous year. This was stated in the section devoted to the Russian Federation in the world report of the organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW).

Four oppositional parties of Armenia have addressed the Constitutional court for recognition of the new Law "On Mandatory Accumulative Pension System" as unconstitutional and for suspension of the law until the final decision.

Adygea began to hold events to mark the Year of Sorrow, announced by the Maikop city organization "Adyge Khase-Circassian Council" in connection with the 150th anniversary of the end of the Russian-Caucasian War.

On January 18, investigators from the Centre to combat extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for North Ossetia conducted a search in the household of Soslan Boradzov, Imam of the Beslan Mosque. This was reported by the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of North Ossetia.

Residents of the village of Khrakh-Uba are dissatisfied that they are not informed about the enforcement of the order of Russian President about compact resettlement of their village to the Magaramkent District of Dagestan.

On January 20, in Astrakhan, at the entrance to the building of the State TV and Radio Company (STRC) "Lotos", activist Mikhail Anisenko held a solo picket to protest against the Olympic Torch Relay.

In Rostov-on-Don, the police disseminated orientation reports on three female natives of Dagestan, which, according to the operational information, can commit a terror act on the day of the Olympic Torch Relay in the city.

The grouping "Ansar al-Sunna", which claimed responsibility for the terror acts in Volgograd, was not earlier known for its actions in Northern Caucasus. This opinion was expressed by Alexei Malashenko. Akhmed Yarlykapov believes that the statement suggests serious transformations in the environment of the armed underground.

In Makhachkala, three suspected members of armed underground were killed during a special operation. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

The court has scheduled for February 22 the consideration of the appeal filed by the defence of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, who was sentenced in the case of "Krasnodar Territory Governor Tkachov's summer cottage" and whose conditional sentence was changed by the court to the real imprisonment.

Tonight, the Azerbaijani armed forces committed two subversion acts on the border with Nagorno-Karabakh. As a result, Junior Sergeant Armen Ovannisyan was killed. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD). In its turn, the Azerbaijani MoD has denied the information about the incident.

Today, at the trial in the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", the court has dismissed the motion filed by Vladimir Stepanov, new advocate of defendant Rustam Makhmudov, to return of the indictment in the case to the prosecutor.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will come to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. The message about the visit of the leader of China was published on the official website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and it was immediately confirmed by Qin Gang, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson.

On January 20, at 9:20 a.m., Olympic torch relay started up in Volgograd from Gogol Street. City residents have expressed their dissatisfaction with the difficulties to move around the city, since many streets were blocked.

In Astrakhan, members of the Jewish community have reported on a sudden inspection of the synagogue by law enforcers. According to them, they were looking for illegal immigrants.

All person killed during the special operation carried out in the village of Semender near Makhachkala have been identified. This was reported by law enforcers.