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International human rights organization Freedom House issued its annual report on the situation with democracy and human rights in the world in which Nagorno-Karabakh was removed from the list of constrained countries and recognized partially free.

Tbilisi city court decided to release Shota Khizanishvili, ex-Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs of Georgia and presently Vice-Mayor of Tbilisi, on bail.

Military garrison court of Vladikavkaz brought a verdict on the case of serviceman Tleppergen Zalukashev accused of violation of statutory regulations and interrelationship. The defendant was acknowledged guilty of the death of his colleague Artem Zgersky and sentenced to 4 years and 6 months of custody in a general regime colony.

Today in Moscow the defence of Yusup Temerkhanov suspected of murder of colonel Yuri Budanov accused secret services of kidnapping witness Alexander Evtukhov. Evtukhov himself denied the information of his disappearance.

Today experts of the Department of Federal Security Service in Dagestan defused an explosive device in the center of Makhachkala.

During trial on the case of ex-Minister of Defense of Georgia Irakly Okruashvili Public Prosecutor’s office withdrew a charge of creation of a paramilitary group brought against him, the defendant’s attorney Zviad Kordzadze reported.

No less than 14 persons became victims of armed conflict in North Ossetia in 2012, seven of them were killed and as many got wounded. This is the total of calculation by the Caucasian Knot based on its own correspondents’ data and information from other open sources.

The people who suffered as a result of a heavy shower with hail in summer of 2012 demand to pay them compensations promised earlier.

The totals of election of Speaker of State Council, Khase Adygea, i.e. 42 votes for Vladimir Narozhny and five against, are a result of pressure of the authorities of the republic, Vladimir Karataev, Coordinator of “Golos” (“Vote”) association in the region, considers. However, the deputies themselves deny external impact on the results of voting.

Krasnodar regional court once again dismissed the motion of challenge to the judge entered by the defense party on the case of mass murder in the stanitsa of Kushevskaya.

During a session of the court of Baku for especially grave crimes on the case of Editor-in-Chief of “Khural” newspaper Avaz Zeinalov the defendant declared that he was not going to participate in the trial any longer for the reason of violation of his rights and undergoing unlawful prosecution.

After two women who participated in a political hunger strike in Abasha were hospitalized in connection with renal dysfunction representatives of the “Georgian Dream” party in Abasha district decided to change the team of strikers.

The people detained for suspicion of complicity in the activities of paramilitary groups are under interrogation in Tyrnyaus. One of them, Ali Borchaev, was severely beaten up, Lilia Malkarova, wife on another detainee Asker Betkaraev, declared.

No less than 167 persons became victims of armed conflict in Ingushetia in 2012, 84 out of them were killed and 83 got wounded. The number of victims exceeds the same index of 2011 by over one and a half times when there were 108 of them. This is the total of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own correspondents’ data and information from other open sources.

Khasavyurt district court sentenced Anvar Guseinov, Sadrudin Arapkhanov and Eldar Dydymov on the case of illegal storage of arms and deliberate property destruction to three years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.

Convict of “Sevan” penal facility Kamo Papyan who earlier sewed up his mouth suspended his hunger strike on January, 16, the Ministry of Justice of Armenia reported.

Ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakli Okruashvili and his attorney Zviad Kordzadze were shown physical evidence on the criminal case of creation of a paramilitary group.

Dunia Miatovich, representative of OSCE for the affairs of freedom of mass media, expressed concern about the policemen’s using violence against journalists during an action of protest in Baku. She called for the authorities of Azerbaijan to investigate these facts and prevent their repetition in the future.

On January, 15, the court in Krasnodar prolonged custody term to the defendants on the case of murder of 12 persons in the stanitsa of Kushevskaya for three months.

During the trial on January, 15, on the case of purchasing cartridges unfit for use by the Armed Forces of Georgia, Zviad Kordzadze, attorney of ex-Minister of Defence Irakli Okruashvili, stated the absence of evidence of his client’s guilt.