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Ruslan Umarov aged 35, supposed brother of Dokku Umarov, one of the leaders of armed underground in Northern Caucasus, detained in the North of Italy several days ago appealed to Italian authorities with a request of political asylum.

After the explosion committed by a suicide bomber in Domodedovo Airport the North-Caucasian republics saw six armed incidents.

In Georgia, trade unions continue raising money to pay ransom to Somalia pirates, who had captured and still keep Georgian sailors. As stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Irakli Petriashvili, Chairman of United Trade Unions of Georgia, the pirates would not change their demands and claim one million dollars of ransom.

Agents of the Department of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) detected and detained a resident of Nalchik, who spreads false anonymous reports about upcoming explosions of banks in the capital of the republic.

On instruction of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, on February 7, the Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan will meet representatives of street vendors, who are protesting against the decision of the Mayoralty to ban the trade in the streets of the city, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the city administration.

Because of the rise of global prices for wheat, Armenia may face another increase in bread prices, local experts predict.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) appointed selection of the jury at the trial on the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova on February 15.

Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ara Arutyunyan and Armenian businessman Eduardo Ernekyan from Argentina signed an agreement on implementing the programme "PC to every child" in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh".

About three hundred refugees living in Tbilisi have asked for political asylum in Germany and France. About the same number of them want to apply for asylum to the US Embassy in Georgia.

On January 28, Prime Minister of Georgia Nika Gilauri held consultations with David Bakradze, the parliamentary speaker, which resulted in appointment of Giorgi Pertaya to the post of Business-Ombudsman.

The identikit of the suicide bomber who committed a terror act at the Moscow-based Domodedovo Airport, disseminated among law enforcement bodies, has caused a lot of telephone calls to the police from citizens who believe that a person from among their acquaintances was pictured on the identikit.

Within the All-Russian action, on January 28, pickets were held in the capital of the Republic of Adygea and districts against increased tariffs on communal utilities.

Vladimir Radchenko, Director of the Centre for Public Relations and Communication Technologies of the Southern Federal University (SFU), demands that Sergey Reznik, a Rostov-based blogger, political analyst and journalist, removes from his online diary in LiveJournal a few dozens of notes, where the SFU and its administration are mentioned.

In 2010, members of the religious extremist underground committed 108 attempts on the life of law enforcement officials, including judges and prosecutors, which is four times more than in 2009. This was announced on January 28 in Nalchik at the sitting of the Collegium of the Investigatory Department (ID) for Kabardino-Balkaria of the ICPO.

A criminal case has been initiated against Tatiana Remeskevich, head of the division for minors of the Kuschevskiy ROVD (District Interior Division), Krasnodar Territory, on the revealed fact of concealment by Kuschevskaya militiamen of an application of a small girl's mother about a sexual assault committed on her daughter.

As a result of the today's attempt on Mikhail Mambetov, head of the administration of the Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, his driver was wounded. Mambetov died in hospital.

The Russian State Duma has passed a bill in the first reading, allowing Russia to announce the so-called "colour" levels of terror threat. The appropriate changes drafted by the FSB will be made in the Federal Law "On Combating Terrorism". According to the authors of the bill, they will allow the relevant structures to promptly react to threats of terror acts, such as the one committed in Domodedovo on January 24.

Shamil Magomedov, a resident of Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk, Dagestan, complains of being persecuted and beaten by militiamen. He asks for help in his applications addressed to Vice-Premier of Dagestan Rizvan Kurbanov, Ombudsperson Umupazil Omarova, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan Andrei Nazarov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Abdurashid Magomedov and public movement named "Pravozaschita" (Rights Defence).

Investigators have no evidences about any involvement of Pakistani militants in the terror act at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport on January 24, said a source from the operative-investigatory group. Doctors also say that when making surgeries they did not remove any granite chips from victims' bodies: the striking elements were mostly metal or plastic fragments.

As reported by a source from law enforcement bodies, the information that Vitaly Razdobudsko, a native of the Stavropol Territory, was an executor of the terror act at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport has nothing to do with reality.