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Today ex-Head of the Department of Constitutional security of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia Levan Kardava was released on bail of 30 thousand lari (about 18 thousand dollars).

State Duma adopted in the first reading a draft law allowing the regions to determine the order of election of the governors independently.

Trial on the case of the act of terror in the airport of Domodedovo in January of 2011 was continued toady in Moscow regional court. Four sufferers refused to submit lawsuits of damage compensation.

During a session of PACE President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili accused Russia of “imperial ambitions”. In their turn, the delegation of the Russian Federation suggested the Assembly to investigate violations of human rights in Georgia during the period of Mikhail Saakashvili’s presidency.

Ten participants of a protest action in “Bina” shopping centre in Azerbaijan held on January, 19, were made criminally liable. Arrest was selected as form of preventive punishment to them. 30 more persons underwent measures of administrative liability, a joint report of Public Prosecutor’s office and Chief department of Police of Baku runs.

Law enforcement bodies failed to find gunmen in the mountainous area of Shatoy district of Chechnya.

An unidentified person who fired upon a police “UAZ” in Khasavyurt district of Dagestan left the scene of the incident in a car belonging to a resident of the settlement of Novoselskoye, law enforcement bodies of the republic report.

Today candidate for presidency of Armenia Aram Arutiunyan, leader of “National Consent” party, declared his intention to withdraw his candidacy from the election and go on a one-day hunger strike.

Candidate for presidency of Armenia, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nagorno-Karabakh Arman Melikyan is not going to canvass during the election race. According to him, the main goal of his participation is to secure legitimate election.

Today Head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov appointed a new Minister of Finance of the republic. It is Magomed-Bashir Aushev aged 44.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Nikoloz Vashakidze resigned on his own free will. He explained the reason of his resignation as policy disagreement with the new Government.

Today European Court of Human Rights brought a verdict on the case “Suleimanov vs. Russia” obliging the authorities of the Russian Federation to pay a compensation to the relatives of kidnapped resident of Chechnya Tamerlan Suleimanov.

During inspection of the scene of a skirmish in Nalchik as a result of which a supposed gunman was killed ammunition and a passport of Mir-Zurab Asadulagi, resident of the town of Nartkala, Urvan district of Kabardino-Balkaria, were found, a source in law enforcement bodies told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

Since today “Express” Bank in Makhachkala is deprived of the license on banking operations. The respective statement was issued by Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

The question of attribution of Syrian Circassians to the category of compatriots abroad demands a thorough study with the participation of experts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Federal Migration Service, officials of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation (“Minregion”) consider. This was the answer to the appeal of Circassian non-governmental organization of Adygea movement “Adyge Khase – the Circassian Parliament” with a request of repatriation of the Circassians from Syria.

No less than 1225 people became victims of continued armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in 2012, 700 out of them were killed and at least 525 got wounded. This is the total of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Colonel Yuri Budanov’s murderer had a Slavic appearance, Alexander Evtukhov whom the defendant’s attorney considers the “key witness” on the case evidenced in Moscow city court today. Evtukhov declared that he had never seen the defendant.

Today during the trial on the case of assault at Nalchik lawyer Oleg Kelemetov entered a motion of attaching documents proving that on October, 13, 2005, his client Hasanbi Khupsergenov was at classes in Pyatigorsk subsidiary of the Russian Social Humanitarian University to the materials of the criminal case.

Representatives of the family of Ivan Agafonov who died as a result of martial arts pro Rasul Mirzaev’s blow will submit a supervisory appeal to the Presidium of Moscow city court and appeal to the European Court of Human Rights asking to acknowledge the verdict to the athlete unlawful and refer the case for a new consideration.

Murder of a judge of the Supreme Court of Dagestan and information about a possible dismissal of the head of the region; audit of the preparation process for presidential election in Armenia by the PACE and application about a hunger strike of one of the presidential candidates; acquittal in Georgia of a Chechen Chataev accused of storing a bomb; a murder and burial in Moscow of Aslan Usoyan, a criminal authority and a native of Georgia; election of the speaker of the parliament of Adygea and start of preparing election of the head of region in Ingushetia, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of January 14-20, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".