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A criminal case has been initiated against Alexander Gorbunov, head of the administration of the Krasnoarmeiskiy District of Volgograd, under the article of "huge bribe-taking".

Persons are searched in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who install mined billboards along the roads in dwelling settlements of the republic with inscription "Imarat Kavkaz" or "United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay"; they are searched with involvement of aviation, armoured vehicles and special units. Road-patrol services are also involved in the search actions.

According to Igor Zhelyabin, militia spokesman of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Krasnodar Territory, there was no attack on Alexei Dymovskiy, former militia major and now the leader of the movement named "White Tape": Alexei just fell asleep in a fixed-route taxi; and his cell phone was stolen.

Ten suspects of preparing a series of terror acts on the New Year holidays in Moscow have been detained; seven of them have been charged.

The criminals who attacked militiamen today in the city of Chegem (the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR)) took away the casualties' firearms.

Today, the Stavropol Territorial Court passed a sentence to 12 defendants, figurants in the case on the attack on Nazran (Ingushetia) in 2004, one of them was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the rest - to 10-25 years of high security colony.

On February 1, the Austrian court decided to extradite Aslambek L., 32, a native of Chechnya, who was arrested in December 2010, to Belgium, where he is suspected of terrorist activities.

Rasul Magomedov, a resident of the village of Balakhany and father of Anvar Sharipov, whose detention in Italy was announced by some media, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he had long been unaware of his son's whereabouts. Law enforcement officials believe that it was Sharipov who accompanied his sister-suicide bomber, when she blew herself up at the Lubyanka Moscow metro station on March 29, 2010.

Instead of Taimuraz Bolloev, Sergey Gaplikov, deputy head of the government's office, has been appointed the head of the State Corporation on Construction of Olympic Venues and Development of Sochi.

On January 31, the NATO Information Centre in Georgia presented a calendar, illustrated with children's drawings and statements of activists of Georgian public organizations.

On January 31, the Embassies of the United States and Great Britain in Baku made appeals to citizens of their countries in Azerbaijan asking them to be vigilant in view of possible threat of attacks on them.

Today, the Magistrate Court has withdrawn charges of administrative cases initiated against two activists of the Ecological Watch for North Caucasus Andrei Rudomakha and Dmitry Shabalin, detained in Krasnodar on December 12 last year during a rally in defence of the natural reserve named "Utrish".

In 2011, voluntary testing for drug using among schoolchildren and university students will be held in all regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

A hypothesis of Magomed Daudov having been involved in the explosion in “Domodedovo” airport was based upon our own analyses of the theme, Mairbek Agaev, editor of information and politics department of Dagestani newspaper “Chernovik” (“Draft”) told a reporter of “Caucasian Knot”.

Commenting on the information of a mass scuffle in Rostov-on-Don on January, 19, Deputy director of the school near which the incident took place declared that her pupils were not implicated in the scuffle.

Representatives of Italian authorities have refuted the information of detention of Ruslan Umarov, a thirty-five-year-old brother of Dokku Umarov, leader of North Caucasian gunmen.

Human rights and civil activists, leaders of Territorial Public Self-government groups (TPS), members of non-governmental organizations and political parties gathered in the public garden near Municipal administration building of Sochi on January, 31, from 17 to 19 o’clock, for a sanctioned meeting in protection of the Constitution of the Russian Federation within the framework of the All-Russian action “Strategy-31”.

The construction works at the new airport in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh are nearing completion. Now, the equipment is being installed; in April they will bring in furniture; and in May they plan to receive the first aircraft.

The parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh decided not to discuss the draft declaration "On the Right of People of Nagorno-Karabakh to Peace and Free Development" brought in by the Public Council of Nagorno-Karabakh on foreign policy and security.

The Azerbaijani Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) has urged the authorities to hold new parliamentary elections, "to prevent the development of the situation in the country under the Tunisian or Egyptian scenarios."