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The report of the Human Rights Watch (HRW), based on interviews with migrant workers engaged at Olympic and other construction sites in Sochi, will be presented today at a briefing in Geneva. The report documents different violations of migrant workers' rights and facts of their exploitation by employers.

Tonight in Makhachkala, unidentified persons opened fire at a car with policemen inside and wounded one of them, a source from law enforcement bodies of the city has reported.

In the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in an attack on the crew of the road-and-post service (DPS), a policeman was lost; another one was hospitalized with wounds.

Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), arrested on charges of organizing riots in the city of Ismailly, has been nominated by the movement as a presidential candidate at the election of the head of Azerbaijan upcoming on October 16, 2013.

Tonight, near the village of Kadyrkent, Sergokalin District of Dagestan, a local opened fire at power agents and was killed by return fire.

Bidzina Ivanishvili has summed up his first 100 days in office as the Prime Minister of Georgia. He believes that he was successful.

The car of the Chechen policeman Magomed Eskerkhanov, who was kidnapped and killed in Dagestan, was found burned down in Khasavyurt, said the spokesman of the Investigatory department for Dagestan of the ICRF.

On February 4, the Nalchik City Court chaired by Judge Aslanbek Zhigunova held the first hearing on the lawsuit of Fuza Makhotlova, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), lodged against to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the KBR on protection of her honour, dignity and business reputation and compensation of moral damage on the fact of declaring her a suicide bomber.

On February 4, in the Georgian city of Gori, 42 refugee families received keys from their new apartments.

According to the Russia's MIA, the money allocated for capital repairs of the housing fund and resettlement of tenants from dilapidated houses was stolen.

The North-Caucasian Branch of the Savings Bank has paid more than a billion roubles of insurance compensations to residents of Dagestan on their deposits, opened at the Joint-Stock Commercial Bank "Express", whose license had been revoked.

The election of the President of Armenia will be held in accordance with the previously approved schedule and will not be postponed, since the candidate Airikyan has decided not to apply for the delay.

The criminal case of the murder in 2009 of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Adilgerey Magomedtagirov has not been sent to the court; therefore, the alleged killer was released from detention under home arrest, said Alexei Vasilkov, the deputy head of the Department of the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

The defence of Sergey Khadjikurbanov, a figurant in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", has decided to challenge the extension of his arrest, which was ruled by the Moscow City Court.

Today in Nalchik, relatives of the residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) Alim Kaitaev and Ismail Baluev, who had been kidnapped, in their opinion, in Nalchik, decided to stop the protest action, which was attended by about 80 people.

As a result of a violation of the ceasefire regime, two Azerbaijani soldiers were killed and one more wounded, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan has reported today.

The arrest of the deputy chairman of the "Musavat" Party Tofig Yagublu, accused of organizing riots in Ismailly, was undertaken under the order of the authorities – he has committed nothing illegal, said Nemat Kerimli, Yagublu's defender.

According to the press service of the Investigatory Department for Moscow of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), eight suspects of kidnapping a resident of Grozny have been detained in Moscow.

Sappers have completed neutralizing the bomb mounted on the door of a private house in the village of Sabnova, Derbent District of Dagestan; the power of the bomb was 2 kilograms of TNT (trotyl) equivalent, the Operational Headquarters of the Republic has reported.

The solemn opening ceremony of the first alpine ski route at the resort of Armkhi in Ingushetia, which was to be held on February 5, has been postponed due to the unusually warm weather.