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Tomorrow, on January 26, the cassation complaint, lodged by the convicts for a bribe in the case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2007, where they declare their innocence, will be considered.

The women's charitable hospital will soon again receive patients. Its head Aishat Magomedova has noted that after deployment of furniture and equipment the hospital will start its work at a new address.

On January 23, speaking to the protest rally held by communists in Volgograd, Alevtina Aparina, Deputy of the State Duma and leader of the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) branch in Volgograd Region, opposed political persecutions of dissidents in the country.

Supporters of Major Alexei Dymovskiy, who was detained on January 22 and brought to temporary isolation facility (known also as "IVS") in Krasnodar, have gathered today in his support.

The local MIA reports that a young man suspected of kidnapping a minor back in 1999 has been detained.

The trolleybus drivers of the capital of Abkhazia are on strike for two days demanding increase of salary, which now makes about 2000 Russian roubles per month.

Today, at about 3 p.m., at the metro station "Culture Park-Ring" in Moscow, unidentified persons made an attempt on the life of Evgeniy Arkhipov, chairman of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights. Mr Arkhipov is known for presenting the interests of Matveevka, a village near Moscow, which last autumn was in the centre of scandal in connection with preparations for 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

The criminal process on the attack on law enforcement bodies of Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), committed on October 13, 2005, is now at the stage of interrogating witnesses. One of them - Kazbek Taashev, an employee of the road sentry service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the KBR, - said, in answer to an advocate's question on how they differentiated Wahhabites from traditional Moslems, that the difference was in the formers' "shaving off moustaches and wearing beards, shaped unusually for our people."

Today, at a meeting in Pyatigorsk on development of the regions of the newly formed North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), Russian Premier Vladimir Putin defined priorities for the District and instructed a number of Ministries of the Russian Federation, the President's plenipotentiary in the NCFD Alexander Khloponin and regional authorities.

A website has appeared in the Internet calling to nominate the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov for the President of Russia at the 2012 election. The President of Chechnya labelled it an ideological diversion.

Armenian authorities hope to receive a USD 120-million credit from Russia for developments in the sphere of diamond processing. This was stated by Tigran Davtyan, local Minister of Finance.

The wife and sister of Rumil Begeev, who ran away from under guards in Derbent, failed to receive the guarantees of law observance from law enforcers in exchange of his surrender. The MIA states the opposite.

A telephone SIM card with an appeal to jihad and photos of Doku Umarov and Shamil Basaev were found and confiscated from imam of the mosque, located in a maximum security colony in North Ossetia.

The "Gazprom" will erect the ski-biathlon complex in Sochi without participation of the Belarus company named "Triple". The respective amendments have been made in the programme of constructing Olympic objects and development of the city of Sochi as a mountain climate resort.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Kalmykia has defined an election system of Mayor of the republic's capital Elista. The city head will be elected by all the townspeople with suffrage, not just by the deputies of the city assembly.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Nagorno-Karabakh tries to find out why the OSCE monitoring mission suspended its work in the Karabakh-Azerbaijan contact line.

As stated by retired Militia General-Major Alexei Volkov, now Chairman of the Commission of the State Duma of the Russian Federation for Legal Support of Counteracting Corruption, the law enforcers, who took part in warfare in Northern Caucasus, became "different people" and spoiled the whole system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia. Nevertheless, a reform of the Ministry can bring fruit in 2-5 years, if the staff is reduced and militiamen's salaries are raised.

Chechen drug policemen are conducting a broad-scale preventive operation against the owners of entities, where smoker's mixes (hookah) are used, and trading facilities, where such mixes are sold. It was found out that a number of the mixes used by hookah smokers contain a strong narcotic substance.

In Karachai-Circassia, critical statements of Vladimir Ustinov, President's plenipotentiary in the Southern Federal District (SFD), about the idea of the united Circassian region were differently estimated by activists of public organizations. The "Adyge Khasse" thanked Mr Ustinov for his general focusing the problem, but noted that "someone had misinformed the speaker."

Workers of science in the Rostov Region express varying opinions on the fact of establishment of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). These are the results of the poll held by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent among the leading scientists and experts of Rostov-on-Don about the new NCFD approved by the State Duma on January 22.