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In the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, where a massacre of 12 persons was committed, exhumation of more than 120 bodies will be undertaken, since they had been buried with violations, and the cause of their death raises questions.

Felling of the alley of 50-year-old plane-trees was launched in Tchaikovsky Street in Sochi at midnight on January 22. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by residents of the neighbourhood who heard noise of falling trees and chain saws.

As a result of the audit of the use of funds allocated from the Russian budget on rendering assistance to Abkhazia, the Audit Chamber (AC) of the Russian Federation revealed violations amounting to the total sum of 346,759,000 roubles. This is stated in the report published by the AC on January 20.

In the Chernozemelskiy District of Kalmykia, law enforcers detained an owner of a private cattle farm, who illegally detained residents of Astrakhan and Stavropol Territory and forced them to work for him.

Three operative agents of the Department of Criminal Search of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of Dagestan were detained during a joint operation of the MIA's own security service and the FSB Department on suspicion of extorting a bribe.

Law enforcement bodies of the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov Region, are checking the appeals of relatives of several parents, who believe that their babies became blind due to negligence of the doctors of the central district hospital, said the press service of the Regional Public Prosecutor's Office.

Senior Lieutenant Ovannes Sukiasyan from the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh was fatally wounded by a shot from the Azerbaijani side and died on the way to hospital, as reported by the Karabakh Defence Ministry.

Four schoolchildren from the village of Karagani, Astrakhan Region, hospitalized because of poisoning, are in grave condition. One of them is in the intensive care unit.

Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA), chaired by Judge Mirpasha Guseinov, continued consideration of the appeal complained lodged by the convicted journalist Fatullaev against the sentence of his imprisonment for 2.5 years on charges of drug storage. The next court session is scheduled for January 25.

High Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Thomas Hammarberg, who is now in Yerevan, imprisoned opposition leaders in detention Nikol Pashinyan, Arutyun Urutyan and Sasun Mikaelyan.

New details appear in the case dealing with the attack on servicemen of the special regiment of the Russian Ministry of Defence, headed by Lieutenant Colonel Bislan Elimkhanov, committed in Grozny on January 9. Shortly before the attack on Elimkhanov, the convoy was stopped for inspection by the local power agents. Supposedly, at least two of the "inspectors" later suffered in the shooting that burst out later at the checkpoint of the military base in Khankala.

Two small children remained alive in the mass murder of a family, committed in a private house in Stavropol, reports the Chief Investigatory Department (CID) for the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD) of the Investigatory Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation.

Forced resettlers from Abkhazia and South Ossetia have been evicted from several more buildings in Tbilisi. Tomorrow, on January 22, refugees plan to hold a protest march from the parliament to the residence of the president.

Aslan Yandiev, a resident of Ingushetia, who is suspected of terrorist crimes committed in 2005-2006 in the territory of North Ossetia, was detained in Slovakia, arrested. The date of detention was not specified.

The freedom restriction measure of Nail Bikmaev, Imam of the Jami (Cathedral Mosque) of Rostov-on-Don, was changed under the personal security of his father, Mufti of the Rostov Region Dzhafar Bikmaev. This decision was made today at the sitting of the commission in charge of rendering assistance in adaptation to peaceful life to those persons who have decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities, which is headed by Rizvan Kurbanov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Dagestan.

An outbreak of dysentery was registered in the village of Karagani, Privolzhskiy District of the Astrakhan Region; 19 children were hospitalized.

The Ukrainian authorities have satisfied Russia's request to extradite Vyacheslav Ryabtsev, one of the suspects of the murder of 12 persons committed in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, in November 2010. As reported by the official website of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office, now the date of Ryabtsev's extradition to Russia is agreed on.

Investigatory bodies have established involvement of seven persons, including Alexander Tikhomirov (Said Buryatskiy), in blowing up the "Neva-Express" Train in November 2009. All of them were killed in March 2010 in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo. This was reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Russia's Investigatory Committee (IC).

Starting from 3:30 p.m. today, internally displaced persons, who oppose their eviction from their places of residence in Tbilisi, are holding their protest action in front of the Parliament of Georgia.

The custody conditions at the Correction Establishment No. 5 were discussed at a press conference held by Zaza Khatiashvili, Chairman of the Bar Association of Georgia on January 18.