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The authorities of the capital have allowed holding - on January 19 in the city centre - a march and a rally in memory of the lawyer and rights defender Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. This was announced on January 13 by the press service of the Moscow Mayor and Government.

Within a day, two natives from Transcaucasia were attacked in Russian capital. A native of Azerbaijan received a bullet in his stomach during a street conflict, while an Armenian was beaten by a group of people.

Along with kidnappers, heads of district administrations, militia bosses and Imams of local mosques will respond for abduction of brides in the Chechen Republic.

Rabadan Rabadanov, head of the village of Verkhneye Ubeki, Levashin District of Dagestan, was shot dead this evening in the yard of his house.

In the course of a special operation in central Makhachkala, power agents of Dagestan killed the second attacker on militiamen.

Experts of the "Sova" Information-Analytical Centre studied the cases of journalists Natalia Nizovkina and Tatiana Stetsura, who are now tried in the city of Ulan-Ude, and concluded that the allegations of extremism were illegitimate.

Ramzan Kadyrov had expressed his intention to speak at the criminal trial of Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial", but it may happen that he will not manage to do it because of his extremely high occupation, said Andrei Krasnenkov, legal representative of the head of Chechnya.

Today, the trial of Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", in connection with his statements about responsibility of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov for the murder of Natalia Estemirova. The court heard evidences of Grigory Shvedov, editor-in-chief of the Internet medium named "Caucasian Knot".

An exhibition of modern art "North-Caucasian biannual festival" will pass off from April, 22, till June, 22, 2011, in Kaspiisk, Dagestan. All the modern forms and tendencies in art will be represented at the exhibition: painting, graphic arts, sculpture, theatrical decoration art, photo, photo a video installation, performance.

Dmitry Demushkin, head of nationalist organization "Slavic Union", has got three days of administrative arrest for resistance to militia on January, 11, in Manezh square of Moscow.

The authorities of South Osetia forbade the physicians of Leningor district to cross the administrative border with Georgia, Georgian mass media report referring to the information from the population of the district. There are no official comments on the matter.

A car of an officer of the Department of Federal Security Service in Malgobek district was fired upon this morning at the approaches to the town of Nazran, near the administrative border between Ingushetia and North Osetia.

The statement of Vladimir Sanakoev, a former employee of the pro-Georgian administration of South Ossetia, who is currently in Russia, that during his stay in Georgia he fulfilled instructions of Russian security services and was a secret agent, was regarded as frivolous by Georgian politicians and experts.

The main version of the investigation dealing with the case of the attack on the convoy of servicemen committed on January 9 in Grozny is an attempt to kill Bislan Elimkhanov, commander of the special-purpose battalion of the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) (former "Zapad" (West) battalion).

On January 10, the City Court of Akhaltsikh postponed its session on the case of Suleiman Barbakadze, former chairman of the International Fund for Repatriation of Meskhetian Turks in Georgia, who is accused of a fraud.

On January 11, the Ministry of Justice of Georgia passed a decision in favour of the members of the Party "For Fair Georgia" who opposed Zurab Nogaideli.

The investigatory authorities of the city of Volgodonsk have confirmed the death of a worker at construction of the third unit of the Volgodonsk Nuclear Power Plant on December 8, 2010. However, the NPP administration reported that there were no deaths of plant workers.

The Moscow Mayoralty has refused to coordinate the action applied for by the "Committee of January 19" and dated to the second anniversary of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova and offered instead to hold a rally in the centre or a march along Taras Shevchenko Embankment.

Representatives of about five thousand former miners of Rostov region are asking the new Governor Vasily Golubev to receive them in order to move forward a request to return the payments cancelled by the local officials.

On January, 11, in Manege Square were an action of nationalist “Movement of December, 11” had been planned from 10 to several tens people according to various sources were detained. About 2 000 militiamen were on duty in the square, the area was blocked.