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The lawyers intend to challenge actions of the head of the investigatory group against Issa Khashagulgov, a native of Ingushetia. Besides, Batyrbek Akhilgov and Rosa Alieva stated that they could not meet their client.

Putting Sergey Arakcheev on the list of political prisoners has provoked an information campaign against him in mass media, said the lawyer Dmitry Agranovskiy during a press conference on resonant cases against former militaries convicted for criminal offences.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has cancelled the decision of the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow to release Rasul Mirzaev, the world sambo champion, accused of manslaughter of the 19-year-old Ivan Agafonov, on bail of 100,000 roubles.

On February 13, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Volgograd sentenced Alexander Savelyev, Chief of the Operational Service Division of the Department of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (UFSKN) in the Volgograd Region, to 9 years of imprisonment in high security colony for sale of narcotics.

An action of public solidarity "Let's save each other!" assuming to help homeless people during the cold season, is held in Tbilisi by the Media Union "Objective".

Today, in the capital of Dagestan, four persons, including a child of four, got poisoned to death by carbon monoxide.

An explosion and subsequent fire in the cafe named "Bellagio" in Volgograd have injured 16 persons. According to preliminary data, a gas bottle has exploded, said the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Volgograd Region.

A resident of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia has reported about disappearance in this republic of his brother Amirkhan Gadaborshev, who lives in Kabardino-Balkaria.

On February, 13, experts of the Ministry of Nature protection together with activists of non-governmental movements held an ecologic action on additional fertilizing of about 500 individuals of Dalmatian pelicans who had flown in a non-frozen area of the sea coast in Makhachkala.

Public prosecutor's office of Moscow appealed against the judgment of Zamoskvoretsky court of releasing on bail the twenty-five-years-old World champion in mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev after whose blow a nineteen-years-old student Ivan Agafonov died, Prosecutor General's of Russia reported.

Ex-candidate for presidency of South Ossetia Alla Djioeva issued a statement in which she asks personally Vadim Brovtsev acting as President of the republic to explain the reasons for the storm of her election staff on February, 9. The statement also runs that Djioeva is going to bring all those guilty of the assault at her staff to account, including a possible appeal to the European Court.

The police of the town of Kamensk-Shakhtisky, Rostov region, are carrying out search of an armed man who opened fire in a store and wounded a shop assistant.

On February, 13, a resident of Sochi perished and three more persons got injured as a result of explosion of an unidentified object.

On February, 13, lance sergeant of National Army Kyamran Djoshgun oglu Gajiev perished in a military unit of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan.

Three policemen perished and six got wounded in a battle at the administrative border between Chechnya and Dagestan on February, 13.

Nikolai Trotsyuk, ex-Chairman of the religious community Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog (Rostov Region), liquidated in 2009 in accordance with the Rostov Regional Court decision, signed a recognizance not to leave. This was told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Grigory Martynov, the representative of the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

A woman-resident of Nazran claims that because of the hostile attitude of their relatives, serving in the power agencies of the republic, her family lost their house and her son was tortured, beaten and convicted on fabricated criminal case.

The 19-year-old resident of Moscow, who was detained in Grozny on February 3 by power agents on suspicion of intention to become a suicide bomber, is at home. No criminal case was instituted against her. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by the power bodies of the republic.

The office of the Ombudsman received 20 complaints from defendants, kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 of the city of Cherkessk. The defendants reported that they were beaten by staff members of the SIZO. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Oleg Dzamykhov, Senior Consultant to the Ombudsman, at present, investigation into the incident in conducted by the Investigatory Committee of Karachay-Cherkessia.

Anomalous frosts in Southern Russia and countries of Southern Caucasus result in numerous emergencies and accidents; failed inauguration of Alla Djioeva in South Ossetia; start of trial on massacre in Stavropol; end of nomination of candidates for MPs of Abkhazia, Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria supports striking drivers of the; bill on wage regulation brought in the parliament of the Volgograd Region, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of February 6-12, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".