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On January 7, Visit Tsoroev, the leader of the regional branch of the political party "Russia's National Security" in the Republic of Ingushetia, filed a complaint to law enforcement bodies demanding to prosecute a group of citizens who burned the Koran.

On the Christmas night, Sochi Orthodox churches were taken under enhanced guard. Parishioners noticed unusually large number of policemen on duty at the entrances to the churches. In some cases, they asked the believers to open their bags to check their contents and explained the need for such check by the interests of citizens themselves.

On January 7, in the Astrakhan Region, a female resident of Astrakhan was detained. In her summer cottage, law enforcers found and seized a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) with striking elements.

To date, the list of missing persons as a result of the Karabakh conflict makes more than 4000 people, said Sarah Eprekht, the head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yerevan.

Today, believers of the Russian, Georgian, Jerusalem and Serbian Orthodox Churches celebrate their Christmas. Hundreds of thousands people took part in the services, held at night on January 7 in the temples of the regions and countries of Northern and Southern Caucasus.

Two policemen were wounded by the explosion that occurred yesterday en route of a police KamAZ truck in Dagestan, the press service of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

As reported by Veronika Skvortsova, the Russian Health Minister, the children who suffered in the Volgograd terror acts and were transported to Moscow for treatment are on the mend.

Pedro Agramunt Font de Mora and Joseph Debono Gresh, Co-Rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), have urged the Azerbaijani authorities to reconsider the decision to arrest Anar Mamedli, the head of the Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Training (CEM&DT).

Djavid Kurugliev, a native of Dagestan, and his common-law wife Viktoria Fursa, who are suspected of terrorism are studying in Cairo. This was stated during the discussions in the open group of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) on the Facebook.

Sochi has opened the main Olympic Media Centre that can accommodate more than 6500 journalists. This was reported by the 2014 Olympics organizing committee.

In the afternoon of December 6, in the high-mountainous Shatoi District of Chechnya, two women were injured as a result of a fire in the shopping pavilion. Experts are to reveal the causes of the inflammation.

Starting from mid-December, in Sochi, 64-year-old pensioner Valery Rogachov cannot get his car, which was seized by policemen. He believes the policemen unlawfully seized the vehicle and broke the law by falsifying a case of offence.

Owner of the "Akbar" store that was blown up in Khasavyurt on January 4 claims that the explosion was not the first attack on his family committed by members of illegal armed formations (IAFs). The man expresses his concern over the safety of his family members and complains about the inaction of law enforcers to protect them.

On January 6, young activists, who were arrested in Baku after the protest actions held on December 29 and who went on hunger strike in detention, were visited by Elchin Bekhbudov, the leader of the Azerbaijani Committee against Torture.

Starting from tomorrow, January 7, special measures are introduced in Sochi to ensure security at Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Restrictions will be applied both to visitors and residents of the city.

Today, Valery Dyakonov, a former candidate for the post of the Mayor of the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, who was on hunger strike in protest against violations at the September 8, 2013, elections of heads and deputies of municipal formations, has stopped his action because of health problems.

The British Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered MI6 agents, in order to prevent terror acts at the Olympic Games in Sochi, to share their confidential data with their Russian colleagues, the British Daily Star has reported today.

A special aircraft of the Russian Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) was sent from Moscow to Volgograd to take another victim of the terror acts committed in Volgograd on the eve of the New Year for treatment in Moscow, the regional government has reported.

Nobody has suffered from a landmine explosion on the way of a police KamAZ truck in Dagestan, a source from the local law enforcement bodies reports.

In the Tsentralny District of Volgograd, a policeman knocked down a pedestrian with his car; the victim later died in hospital, reports the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Volgograd Region.