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Prosecutor General’s and the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Azerbaijan issued a joint statement in connection with the arrest of Movsum Samedov, leader of Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA).

Lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova beaten up by militiamen has submitted a complaint to the Supreme Court of Dagestan against the actions of a judge of Sovietsky Federal court of Makhachkala who had passed the materials of the case over for an expertise.

The first week of 2011 was not calm for the republics of Northern Caucasus; Christmas was celebrated in all southern regions of Russia and in Southern Caucasus; in Georgia action of veterans ended in fines for disobedience, – look these and other events in the review of the week of January 3-9, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Islamic Party of Azerbaijan issued a statement condemning the "pressure of the authorities on party members" and "groundless" accusations against them. The authors of the statement demand prompt termination of "customized" repression and release of the detainees.

On January 9, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed a decree "On Approving the List of Pre-Border Territories, where Foreign Citizens, Stateless Persons and Foreign Legal Entities May not Hold Titles on Land". The list includes lands of six regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District and five regions of the Southern Federal District.

The main version of the murder of Zarema Sadulayeva, head of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation", in Chechnya was not confirmed in the course of investigatory actions.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected the complaints filed by opposition figures and other persons in relation to the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, which were held on November 7, 2010, after the authorities of the country had agreed to pay compensations by analogy with the case "Namet Aliev versus Azerbaijan".

One of the 13 servicemen wounded as a result of an explosion in Kratsaniss training center of the Georgian Ministry of Defense died this morning. Three soldiers died after the explosion at once.

Beginning from January, 15, the Administration of Leninogorsk district of South Ossetia are enacting a ban against the use of Georgian currency lari in shops, enterprises of public catering and other public areas.

Residents of the town of Shakhty, Rostov region, have started collecting signatures under an appeal to President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and Governor of the region Vasily Golubev demanding resignation of Mayor Sergey Ponamarenko.

No connection between the grenade explosion on January, 9, as a result of which Gocha Jalagonia, nominee to Popular Assembly of the republic, was injured has been established. Prosecutor General’s of Abkhazia considers the incident a result of an act of hooliganism.

The village of Perevi in Georgia, which was quitted by Russian troops, faces typical problems of many villages of this country, located in deep province. Young people leave it in search of employment; the school is in deplorable condition; and the doctor serves several surrounding villages.

According to local residents, at the administrative border with Georgia, security services of South Ossetia are verifying whether certificates issued for crossing the border comply with the data available at the Ossetian check point.

Establishment in Azerbaijan of the Civil Movement for Democracy named "Public Chamber" is aimed at increasing the political participation and involvement of the population in governing the country. This was stated by Panakh Gusein, a member of the Coordinating Board of the Movement.

On January 10, the session of the European Parliament in Brussels will discuss the situation with kidnappings in Ingushetia. Ibragim Lyanov and Madina Lyanova, independent human rights activists from this republic, who represent interests of their countrymen in Europe, were among initiators of the debates.

Valery Suchkov, a member of the City-Planning Council of Sochi and a well-known public activist, who was hospitalized with traumas on January 7, is sure that the attack on him was pre-planned and related to his public activities.

Araz Abdullaev, halfback of “Neftchi” Football Club (Baku) and youth combined team of Azerbaijan, is moving to the famous English team “Everton”. He will become the first representative of Azerbaijani football in the English Premier League.

According to the latest data, four men perished during an attack at a checkpoint in Lenin district of Grozny on January, 9, and from six to eight persons got wounding of different extent of gravity.

Today the families of the Georgian sailors captured by pirates of Somali are holding an action of protest in front of the building of the Supreme Council of Adzharia in Batumi to draw Georgian Government’s attention to the hostages’ fates.

European Court of Human Rights has dismissed actions on almost half of the cases against Georgia connected with the events of 2008 because of failure to submit necessary information by the claimants, a representative of Press service of the Court reported.