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Starting from January 10, in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, staff members of the municipal unitary enterprise "Nalchikavtobustrans" went on strike to protest against arrears on wages and poor working conditions. More than two hundred of city and intercity buses did not come to their routes.

In Rostov-on-Don, Eduard Avanesyan, the former deputy chief of the Inspection of the Federal Tax Service in the Proletarsky District of the city of Rostov-on-Don, and Vyacheslav Avanesiyan, the former chief state tax inspector of the same inspection, accused of receiving large bribes, were conditionally sentenced.

Today, the Labour Party of Georgia held a rally called "Sorry, you will die". The protest of the Labour Party was caused by the resolution adopted by the Tbilisi government, which had determined the fee for ambulance.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate will make every effort to resolve the canonical church situation in Abkhazia. This was announced on January 9 by Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, at the meeting, attended by representatives of the Council of the Republic's Holy Metropolis.

On January 11, activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" held a rally against destruction of green plants in the territory of the children's centre in Sochi. Anatoly Pakhomov, Mayor of the city, has stated that a parking will be built in the centre's territory and that the very centre faces no threats.

Starting this year, Cossacks of North Ossetia will be rewarded by the Government of North Ossetia for the protection of the Russian-Georgian border in the amount of 75 roubles per hour of their service.

A special operation is going on in Dagestan. Additional forces, including military aviation, have been brought up to the site of the operation. According to more precise information, one gunman was killed and one serviceman wounded as a result of armed confrontation.

Starting this morning, entry and exit to and from the village of Gimry of the Untsukul District are open; according to local residents, they were blocked by law enforcement agents and soldiers since January 9.

The rescuers found Alexander Karnaukhov, resident of Astrakhan, who lost his way in Elbrus. The tourist got no injuries.

Two policemen and an elderly man in Kalmykia got injured as a result of a road accident with the participation of a police car and a "VAZ-2106".

Criminal proceedings were started in Astrakhan against Gennady Didenko, Deputy Mayor of the city, Chairman of housing and communal services Committee. He is suspected of abuse of authority and negligence.

According to more precise data, today ten officers of law enforcement bodies got wounded and one perished in Kizilyurt district of Dagestan as a result of unsuccessful neutralization of an explosive device. This was reported by district police department.

According to the Russian media rating of the "National Monitoring Service" and the "Institute for Independent Political Research", following the results of 2011, the Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov entered the top three most information transparent heads. According to the study, the most inaccessible leader in Southern Russia is Alexei Orlov, the leader of Kalmykia. Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, occupies the 30th position in the rating.

According to Anzor Nibo, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Shapsugiya", the most important issue for the Adygs-Shapsugs, living near the Black Sea, is the land issue and the fact that the statute of the Krasnodar Territory had not fixed the fact of residence of Shapsugs as the indigenous nation. At the same time, Anzor Nibo and Madjid Chachukh, Chairman of the public organization "Adyge Khase" of the Adygs-Shapsugs, living near the Black Sea, do not think that the regional authorities pay little attention to the nation.

In 2011, in Azerbaijan, 12 persons blew up on unexploded landmines and shells, four of them were killed and eight wounded. This was reported by Khafiz Safikhanov, Chairman of the public association "Campaign to Ban Landmines".

Today, the deputy prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory brought to court a criminal case against staff members of the regional clinical centre of specialized types of medical care and managers of commercial organizations accused of theft of medical products in the amount of 20,184 million roubles. This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the Stavropol Territory.

At the defence's motion, the Saratov Garrison Military Court has changed pre-trial restriction to recognizance not to leave for soldier Andrei Popov, accused of desertion, who earlier stated that he had been held in slavery in Dagestan. During the court hearings, two prosecutors' witnesses were also questioned.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) announced its decision on the lawsuits of the four candidates in the parliamentary elections of 2005 in Azerbaijan, the decision of the central Election Commission (CEC) to cancel the election results was declared unlawful.

The village of Gimry of the Untsukul District of Dagestan is completely blocked by law enforcement agents and soldiers; the village is approached by heavy military equipment. This was reported by residents of the village.

In Astrakhan, the court found guilty Alexander Kirpichenko, the activist of the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), the journalist of the newspaper "Astrakhanskaya Pravda", accused of violating the established order of the rally, and sentenced him to a fine of 500 roubles.