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Today, a special congress is held in the city of Maikop of the public movement "Adyge-Khase – Circassian Parliament" of the Republic of Adygea with the aim to discuss the possible help to Circassians from Syria.

In the context of anomalously frosty weather for Azerbaijan and snowfalls, starting February 10, Baku opened five temporary shelters aimed to protect people from the frost.

Because of the anomalously frosty weather, the Chechen Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has set up round-the-clock premises, where people can come in and warm up.

Three dwelling settlements in the Kamyshin District of the Volgograd Region remain isolated from motorways because of the snowstorm. In total, 749 people live there.

Residents of the Staropromyslovsky District and the township of Chernorechye of the Zavodskoy District of Grozny report about problems with heat and water supplies, caused by the abnormally cold weather.

On February 10, in Tbilisi, members of the youth wing of the Labour Party of Georgia held a rally in front of the Ministry of Education demanding to reduce the tuition fees at universities. It was attended by several dozens of people.

The participants of the song contest "Eurovision-2012" to be held in Baku this May, as well as the audience, members of fan clubs, journalists, etc. will be able to get visas under a simplified procedure.

The mother of Malik Akhmadov, a 19-year-old native of the village of Kurakh of the Kurakh District of Dagestan, who got disability, while saving the life of a girl of his age from drowning in the Caspian Sea, asks for help to pay for the rehabilitation of her son.

On February 9, Sochi residents from Yunykh Lenintsev (Young Leninists) and Konstitutsii (Constitution) Streets reported that in front of their windows they observe cutting down of ornamental chestnut trees, which decorated the embankment of the Sochi River. The Sochi residents emphasize that officials change the appearance of the city without listening to their opinions, and their attempts to obtain the clarification of the city administration of the reasons for cutting down the chestnuts were not successful.

The inauguration of Alla Djioeva, scheduled for February 10, did not take place, since the previous day the OMON (riot police) fighters broke into the electoral headquarters of the opposition, and Alla Djioeva herself was hospitalized with a diagnosis of hypertensive crisis.

In the centre of Baku, a group of activists of the Youth Committee of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) carried out a rally to support Elnur Medjidli, their convicted colleague. The event was held in the form of collecting books.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the extension - till March 4 - of the arrest of Akhmed Evloev, a figurant in the case of the terror act in the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport, who, according to investigators, is a distant relative of the suicide bomber Magomed Evloev, the press service of the MCC reports.

At least two persons were killed and two more injured during the period from January 30 to February 5 in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Government of Astrakhan region and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reached an agreement of holding up blasting operations for utilization of ammunition in "Ashuluk" military firing range because of the residents' complaints of earthquake shocks.

An exhibition of works of video art "Echo-Eco" devoted to ecology and protection of the environment opened in Sochi. 15 works by finalists of the contest were exhibited. All in all, over 350 works from Italy, Russia, Portugal, Germany, the USA, Canada, Spain, China and other countries were presented at the contest.

An investigator arrived in Djioeva's staff with a summons to Prosecutor General's for it was necessary to interrogate her on a criminal case of preparation for seizure of power which is under investigation in Prosecutor General's of South Ossetia. This was declared by Alan Pliev, Senior investigator of cases of particular importance.

At the moment of arrival of law enforcement personnel there were 50 of Alla Djioeva's supporters in her staff. About 200 servicemen of riot squad participated in the storm of the building, representatives of the oppositionist state.

Human rights activists, lawyers and bloggers of Northern Caucasus are welcoming the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (SCRF) to allow lawyers to bring voice recorders (dictaphones) and photo cameras with them to correctional establishments.

Despite the abnormally cold weather established in the territory of Azerbaijan, the prisoners' blocks of the Penitentiary Facility No. 17 of the Republic's Penitentiary Service are not heated, and the temperature in these premises makes plus 10 degrees Celsius, said Einullah Fatullaev, the head of the NGO "For Human Rights", who visited on February 8 this facility within the monitoring project of custody conditions in prisons.

The Elista City Court has found Vladimir Tomutov, the former Deputy Mayor of the capital of Kalmykia, guilty of committing a large-scale theft of budgetary funds, the Prosecutor's Office of Kalmykia has reported.