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On February 26, a rally "For Fair Elections!" in Theatre Square of Rostov-on-Don brought together about 300 people. It is much smaller than at previous similar actions. Most of the protesters came there either with colourful banners or with flags of almost all oppositional parties and movements.

Protest hunger strike in Lermontov, Stavropol Territory; attempt on President of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab; mass brawl with fatal outcome in the Astrakhan Region; events related to the 68th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Chechens and Ingushes; statement of Armenian performers about possible boycott of "Eurovision-2012" in Baku, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of February 20-26, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has confirmed that jointly with Russian special services they had disrupted plans of terrorists to prepare an attempt on Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

The action in the form of a motor rally "For Fair Elections", held on February 26 in Pyatigorsk, was attended by about thirty cars, representing not only Pyatigorsk, but other cities of the region known as the Caucasian Mineral Waters (Kavminvody).

In Kabardino-Balkaria, at the trial on the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, the defendant Azamat Akhkubekov, accused of attacking the road-and-post point "Khasanya", said that he had slandered Rasul Kudaev and Rasul Nogerov under torture and pressure from law enforcers.

Today, about 700 people took part in the rally "For Fair Elections" held in the village of Khuchni, Tabasaran District of Dagestan. After the event, opposition candidates have submitted applications to the Territorial Election Commission (TEC) to withdraw their candidates from the elections for deputies of the District Assembly.

Today, from midday till 4 p.m., in front of the Sochi administration a sanctioned picket "For Fair Elections" was held, which was attended by 10 locals.

Residents of the house in Astrakhan, part of which has collapsed as a result of explosion, assert that the local resident, prone to suicide, could be involved in the incident. Thus, they confirm the position of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), which included a gas explosion, a suicide attempt and a terror act into the main versions.

On February 27, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA), chaired by Judge Vagif Mursaglov, dismissed the complaint of Bakhtiyar Gadjiev against denial of his release under conventional early relief (CER).

On February 26, an action in support of the hunger-striking candidates for Deputies of the Lermontov City Council was held in the form of a meeting of citizens with Ilya Drozdov, the former coordinator of the Stavropol Regional Branch of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), now a Deputy of the Russian State Duma.

At least two persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in the period from February 20 to February 26: one person was killed and one wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", based on their own materials and information from other public sources.

Today, the city of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, hosted a picket, organized by the regional association of trade unions "Sotsprof". The protesters asked to address the problems of minor businesses, lack of places in kindergartens and delays in indexing workers' wages.

The organizers of the first contest of young bloggers in Adygea expect that it will become a platform for realizing the potentials of the youth and will accustom them to actively expressing their civil position. The participants believe the contest to become their rewarding experience.

A piece of ice weighing about a ton has killed a man in central Volgograd.

Lasha Chkhartishvili, one of the leaders of the Conservative Party of Georgia, was detained by policemen in central Tbilisi, in the Kikvidze Park.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) has approved the schedule of activities relating to the conduct of the parliamentary elections. The election campaign will begin on April 8 and will be over on May 4.

The former South-Ossetian president's representative in the parliament Tarzan Kokoity has refused to run for the presidency. Today, Mr Kokoity has addressed the Central Election Commission (CEC) with his appropriate statement, said the local CEC.

On February 25, the city of Vladikavkaz saw the premiere of the movie "August. The Eighth", a story about the conflict in South Ossetia in 2008. After the screening, the film director Djanik Faiziev, actors and members of the filming crew addressed the audience.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Stavropol Territory has returned 19 land plots back to the forest fund of Stavropol; now, about 400,000 trees will be planted there. According to the Office, the administration of the city had illegally granted the plots to individuals and legal entities.

A terminal, by means of which people can send a verbal or written communication to the President of the Russian Federation in electronic form, was launched in Sochi. The new service is available from February 22.