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Lance Corporal Khachatur Sarkisyan, a serviceman of a regular term, is suspected of murdering Pailak Shakhnazaryan, a regular term soldier, in an army unit of Nagorno-Karabakh. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

Today, in Georgia, a group of prisoners of the Tbilisi women's colony stopped their hunger strike to protest against transfer of children under three years old to children's homes.

A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, without waiting for trial on case of a road accident that killed his sister, stabbed with a knife a suspected perpetrator of the road accident. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Republic's Investigatory Committee.

Defence of Sergey Arakcheev, ex-officer of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in a colony for murdering three Chechen residents in January 2003, asks the General Prosecutor's Office to reopen the case, since new reasons for its reconsideration have appeared.

On January, 29, activists of non-governmental organizations, scientists and ecologists held a picket in Stavropol "Healthy life-style is our people's happy future". At the action the participants called for maintenance of the springs in the forests of the city and elimination of pollution of water storages in order not to harm the residents' health.

19 schools and kindergartens in Rostov region were totally closed, seven more institutions stopped functioning in part. The reason was that the temperature in these buildings dropped under admissible level.

Parents of lost servicemen of law enforcement bodies called for the authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria to take over the control of the situation in the republic, provide people with jobs and eliminate corruption. On January, 28, they held their first organizational meeting in the town of Baksan. About twenty persons took part in it.

Part of local observers in Dagestan where installation of web-cameras started at the polling stations for the election of President of Russia are sure that the cameras will not help solve the problem of ballot rigging during voting. In their turn, the authorities state that the systems of video surveillance will make the election more transparent.

Near the building of the Parliament of Georgia, the police detained seven participants of an unsanctioned oppositional action in memory of the killed employee of the "United Bank of Georgia" Sandro Girgvliani. The protesters tried to block traffic in Rustaveli Avenue.

Two children suffered as a result of two explosions in Makhachkala, the spokesperson of the Dagestani MIA has reported.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated that today and on January 27 the Armenian Armed Forces repeatedly violated the ceasefire regime. At the same time, the Armenian MoD has claimed that on January 22-28 they registered about 150 cases of ceasefire violations by the Azerbaijani party.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about the 17-day-long hunger strike of Alaudin Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, who is serving his term in the Kamchatka Territory, from his grandmother Minovsi Almurzieva. According to her story, Alaudin Almurziev is hunger-striking against violation of his rights in the colony.

The Forum of Azerbaijani Intellectuals (FAI) is initiating a mass protest rally against adoption by the French Senate of the law on responsibility for denial of the Armenian Genocide; in the coming days the FAI plans to send an application to the city mayoralty.

From January 27 on, due to heavy snowfalls in the northwest of the country, 18 villages and one township in the Balakan District are suffering from power outage.

The city of Sukhumi has hosted the congress of the pro-government party "United Abkhazia", where 11 candidates were nominated to run for the parliamentary elections.

According to the Volgograd Regional Prosecutor's Office, on January 27, the 188 workers from Uzbekistan, who spend their winter in tents, received in full their salary debts.

On January 27, the North-Ossetian MPs adopted – in the second and final readings – the Law "On Free Provision of Land Plots into Ownership of Large Families".

In June 2012, Armenia will be the ninth country, entrusted with the responsibility for organizing the Bologna process for the next three years, said Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Sciences of Armenia.

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and the Republic of Ingushetia have signed an agreement to create a special economic zone (SEZ) for tourism and recreation in the territory of the Djeirakh and Sunzha Districts of Ingushetia.

Alexander Kuryanov, a former Deputy Mayor of Rostov-on-Don for housing and municipal services, is a figurant of two criminal cases. He is accused of a fraud and abuse of service powers.