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In Azerbaijan, relatives of Turadj Zeinalov, who died last August at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the Ministry for National Security (MNS) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) reject the official version of the reason of his death. They believe that Zeinalov died from torture, and in order to prove that they agree to exhume his remains.

In the afternoon on January 13, nearly a hundred construction workers went out for a rally in central Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, demanding payment of their wages. All the protesters are employees of the Turkish construction company "Penta".

Today, the city of Nalchik has hosted an enlarged sitting of the International Circassian Association (ICA), which adopted an appeal to the leadership of Russia to help in return of 115 Circassians living in Syria to their historic homeland.

About a thousand residents of the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, gathered today to a rally demanding to cancel the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

The upper section of the Belaya River in the dwelling settlement of Guzeripl is studied in search of a landslide, which has created problems in water supply to the village of Kamennomostsky, Maikop District. The works are on since January 12.

Relatives of the victims of mass riots on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan are dissatisfied with the course of the inquiry into the deaths of people on that day; the have stated that they do not trust both the investigators and Co-Rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

The Chechen authorities will pay one million roubles to every family of the law enforcers lost in the special operation undertaken in the Vedeno District. The wounded participants of the operation were promised 300,000 roubles each, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

On January 9, in the Kirov District of the capital of Dagestan, two unidentified persons penetrated into the house of a local resident, born in 1937, and fired several shots from an unidentified firearm. The man was brought to the Trauma Centre of Makhachkala, where he died from his wounds.

In Baku, on January 13, a confrontation occurred of the workers of the Mayoralty with the three families who refused to move out of the house defined for demolition in the area of Flag Square. The families refused to leave the three-storey building and stood as a "human shield" in front of the excavator.

Ilyas Nalgiev, ex-Chief of the Karabulak GOVD (Interior Division), who was wounded in explosion, is in critical condition in resuscitation ward. The attempt on him took place at the night before sentencing of a resonant case of torture, in which Ilyas Nalgiev was a defendant.

Human rights defenders in Azerbaijan express their concern about the military service of unhealthy young people and non-combat losses in the armed forces of the country. Alekper Mamedov, the head of Centre for democratic civilian control over armed forces, reported about new facts of recruitment of seriously ill young people.

The court ordered to return to the budget of the Tarumovka District of Dagestan 2.9 million roubles, spent by officials for buying a foreign-made car. This was reported by the local Prosecutor's Office.

The oppositional activist Zeinal Bagirzade, arrested in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan, told his brother that during the first three days after his detention he had been subjected to physical and psychological pressure.

Representatives of the "Tegut Protection Group" continue to insist that the Armenian government failed to fulfil its obligations. In connection with that fact, the public organization repeatedly appealed to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee.

The results of the contest for the best comment of readers of the Internet edition "Caucasian Knot", available through the social network Facebook, are summed up. During the period from December 30, 2011, to January 12, 2012, readers voted for the posts, selected by the edition. As a result, the largest number of votes went to the comments made by Milana Dudaeva, Bekkhan Gelgoev and Ismail Aliev, who would receive prizes.

Following the results of 2011, the Internet edition "Caucasian Knot" entered the ten most cited news sources of the Runet and showed a significant movement in the rating among 7900 media, information about which was included in the study of the "Medialogy".

Law enforcement agents and soldiers, who surround the village of Gimry of the Untsukul District starting January 9, beat several villagers and shot from submachine gun into the air. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Shamil Abdullaev, a local resident.

On January, 12, Union of youth and students' organizations of Azerbaijan accomplished the "Campaign of aid to Somali" which started at the beginning of October, 2011.

A sixteen-years-old resident of Ingushetia was found in the stanitsa of Nesterovskaya, Sunzha district, a source in the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Border guards in Georgia detained a citizen of Azerbaijan Ilgar Guseinov. He is accused of illegal crossing the border with Abkhazia.