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The Greek ship owner company has promised the relatives of the sailors captured by Somali pirates that the men would be released at the end of February.

A note from an organization "Black Hawks - Anti-Wahabits" was found in Nalchik, near the house where the family of Astemir Mamishev who is in federal search for suspicion of involvement in a number of high-sounding murders in Kabardino-Balkaria lives.

Gas explosion took place in the territory of one of the oil fields in the capital of Azerbaijan. A man got injured as a result and died in hospital later on.

Today is exactly 11 years after Russian power agents conducted a special operation in the village of Novye Aldy, Chechnya, where at least 56 civilians were murdered.

Tonight, after anonymous report about a planted bomb, several hundreds of people were evacuated from the building of the Karachay-Cherkessia Drama and Comedy Theatre, where the beauty contest "Miss Cherkessk" was held. However, no bomb was found in the theatre.

The newly appointed business ombudsman, whose mission is to protect businessmen's rights of and to mediate between them and the government, starts his work in Georgia.

It became known today about the death of Magomed Gamzatov, a resident of the village of Shamkhal, a Didoy by nationality, who in early January addressed the Parliament of Georgia for help in addressing the problems of Didoys - development of language, culture, and recognition of them to be a separate ethnic group.

This year, Armenia will form a new division of rescuers by analogy of the American rescue service "911".

The Club "Young Dragon" from Dagestan was the winner of the fifth open all-style Cup of "Friendship of North-Caucasian Nations" in martial arts and mixed wrestling under the rules of Mix-Fight, which took place on January 28-30 in the city of Teberda, Karachay-Cherkessia.

Despite protests of believers, the ban on headscarves (hijabs) in schools, introduced last November in Azerbaijan, remains in force.

Anvar Sharipov, a brother of Maryam Sharipova, one of the female suicide bombers, who blew themselves up in Moscow metro in March 2009, was rejected political asylum in Italy.

The Vilnius officials responsible for tutorship did not allow the consul of the Russian Federation, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chechnya and the delegation that arrived with them to visit the children, whose guardian is Malik Gataev.

On February 4, in the capital of Azerbaijan, a five-story building of the hostel, where displaced persons had been accommodated, was set on fire. One person died; according to different sources 4-5 more were injured.

Azerbaijan continues evacuating its citizens from Egypt. In the period from January 31 to February 3, 60 persons came home from there.

Because of increasing incidence of influenza, all educational institutions of Volgograd are under quarantine; and all the lessons are cancelled.

As reported today by Yuri Popov, Acting Head of the Investigatory Department for the Rostov Region of the Russian Investigatory Committee, inspectors have appointed a medical examination with the aim to establish the exact cause of death of Maxim Sychov, a student of the Rostov State Construction University (RSCU), who died after being beaten by another student.

Three militiamen perished, when a convoy car, which transported a detainee in Karachay-Cherkessia, was shelled. This was reported by Evgenia Bastanova, a representative of the press service of the republic's MIA.

The court session on the criminal case initiated against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", in connection with his statements about the responsibility of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov for the murder of Natalia Estemirova was reappointed on March 3.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, it is too early to assert that Magomed Evloev, a resident of Ingushetia, was the suicide bomber who committed the terror act at the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport.

Maria Ameli (Madina Salamova), a native of North Ossetia, who was deported to Russia in late January from Norway, received her Russian passport, in which there is no registration yet.