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Ex-candidate for presidency of South Ossetia Alla Djioeva issued a statement in which she asks personally Vadim Brovtsev acting as President of the republic to explain the reasons for the storm of her election staff on February, 9. The statement also runs that Djioeva is going to bring all those guilty of the assault at her staff to account, including a possible appeal to the European Court.

The police of the town of Kamensk-Shakhtisky, Rostov region, are carrying out search of an armed man who opened fire in a store and wounded a shop assistant.

On February, 13, a resident of Sochi perished and three more persons got injured as a result of explosion of an unidentified object.

On February, 13, lance sergeant of National Army Kyamran Djoshgun oglu Gajiev perished in a military unit of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan.

Three policemen perished and six got wounded in a battle at the administrative border between Chechnya and Dagestan on February, 13.

Nikolai Trotsyuk, ex-Chairman of the religious community Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog (Rostov Region), liquidated in 2009 in accordance with the Rostov Regional Court decision, signed a recognizance not to leave. This was told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Grigory Martynov, the representative of the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

A woman-resident of Nazran claims that because of the hostile attitude of their relatives, serving in the power agencies of the republic, her family lost their house and her son was tortured, beaten and convicted on fabricated criminal case.

The 19-year-old resident of Moscow, who was detained in Grozny on February 3 by power agents on suspicion of intention to become a suicide bomber, is at home. No criminal case was instituted against her. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by the power bodies of the republic.

The office of the Ombudsman received 20 complaints from defendants, kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 of the city of Cherkessk. The defendants reported that they were beaten by staff members of the SIZO. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Oleg Dzamykhov, Senior Consultant to the Ombudsman, at present, investigation into the incident in conducted by the Investigatory Committee of Karachay-Cherkessia.

Anomalous frosts in Southern Russia and countries of Southern Caucasus result in numerous emergencies and accidents; failed inauguration of Alla Djioeva in South Ossetia; start of trial on massacre in Stavropol; end of nomination of candidates for MPs of Abkhazia, Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria supports striking drivers of the; bill on wage regulation brought in the parliament of the Volgograd Region, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of February 6-12, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

A bomb was exploded under the car of Kurman Ismailov, Deputy Mufti of the Stavropol Territory. This was reported by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The information that the monk Father Iona, the Georgian priest of the temple Sameba (Holy Trinity), was released as a result of activities of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Abkhazia does not correspond to reality. This was stated by Laurens Kogoniya, the head of the Interior Division of the Gali District of Abkhazia, located near the border with Georgia.

The authorities of Novorossiysk have decided to provide financial assistance amounting to 500,000 roubles to the families of two women killed in the January storm.

During the second Chechen war, some 3000-5000 persons had disappeared. This was reported by Alexander Cherkasov, the member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", at the presentation of the book about disappeared and murdered residents of Chechnya.

Today ex-candidate for presidency of South Ossetia Alla Djioeva was moved from resuscitation unit of Republican somatic hospital to a common therapy ward, Head doctor of the hospital Miarbeg Kokoev reported.

Representatives of the movement "Mothers of Kabardino-Balkaria in protection of human rights and freedoms" explained their vision of the ways of settlement of the armed confrontation in KBR to Russian officials and human rights activists during their visit to Moscow.

Investigative bodies of Saratov region started a pre-investigative inspection concerning Lidia Sviridova, Head of the regional branch of "Union of Soldiers' Mothers" dealing with the case of soldier Andrey Popov accused of desertion who earlier stated that he had been kept in slavery in Dagestan. This was reported by Sviridova herself.

The winner of the first World Cup competitions in alpine skiing, which started today in Sochi, was a Swiss athlete Bet Feuz.

The "Parliamentarianism Centre of Armenia," has addressed the Special Investigatory Service on the voting in Parliament on February 9. According to the Centre, the adoption of the law "On Legal Regime of State of Emergency" was accompanied by facts of illegitimate voting of the MPs.

The health condition of Alla Djioeva, the former South-Ossetian presidential candidate, hospitalized on February 9 with a hypertensive crisis, has stabilized, said Mairbeg Kokoev, Chief Physician of the Republic's Somatic Hospital.