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Today, at 4:15 a.m., in the section Bronevaya-Ligovo of the St Petersburg-Vitebsk Department of the Oktiabr Railways an explosion took place and injured the operator of the rail car that ran at the moment on the track.

In Azerbaijan, in the context of the tragic incident on January 28 in an army unit, deployed in the Dashkesan District in the country's west, two officers are arrested: Major Valad Gurbanov, deputy commander of the battalion, and Senior Lieutenant Rustam Ahmedov, a platoon commander.

Today, Ferzullah Kakhrimanov, deputy head of the administration of the capital of Dagestan, said that following the order of Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov a decision was made not to increase the cost of trip tickets for drivers of fixed-route taxis of Makhachkala. Its price rate remains unchanged - 2800 roubles per month.

The State Commission for Protection of Economic Competition (SCPEC) has fined the pharmaceutical companies "ArmPharm", "PharmGoar" and "Degabaza Yerevan" by 500,000 drams each for untimely presentation to the commission of their justifications of increase of prices on some drugs.

According to Konstantin Kavtaradze, plenipotentiary ambassador of Georgia to Poland, who commented the situation with Georgian illegal immigrants, there will be no mass deportation of citizens of Georgia from Poland. He expects that 20 persons will be deported from Poland to Georgia on February 10.

The trial on the activist of the opposition and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Armenian Time" Nikol Pashinyan was held with gross infringements. In particular, the equality of arms was not observed; no elements of the crime were presented. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about by Mikael Danielyan, a well-known human rights activist and head of the organization named "Helsinki Association".

Today, at the Basmanny Court of Moscow, Andrei Krasnenkov, representative of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, and lawyers of the "Novaya Gazeta" refused to enter an amicable agreement on the claim on protection of Kadyrov's honour and dignity against the newspaper.

The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have sent materials to Moscow for excitation of a criminal case against Liudmila Alekseeva, head of the oldest Russian human rights organization - Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) - for slandering Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

A bit more than 24 hours after the last interview of the murdered Chechen human rights defender Natalia Estemirova appeared in the website of Ingush opposition "Ingushetiyaru.org", it was attacked with a huge force and finally deprived of any working capacity. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Lydia Mikhalchenko, editor of the website.

As stated by Maksharip Aushev's brother Mussa, Rustam Dobriev, who was shot dead in Nazran on January 30, was not their relative, as asserted by federal masses media. Mussa is sure that this murder, like many others, was aimed at destabilizing the situation in Ingushetia.

Today at its regular session, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, which considers the case on the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, agreed to the request of one of the defendants and released his advocate from the case.

Today, a video conference was held between Moscow and Tbilisi on the topic "Situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia after Round 9 of Geneva Consultations." The parties rejected opponent's arguments.

Today, Magomed Musaev, a teacher of technology of the Makhachkala secondary school No. 45, addressed his letter to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev. The complaint is against the actions of the school principal Patimat Magomedova, who refused to pay extra salary to teachers, as envisioned within the new payment system.

According to Public Prosecutor Yuri Turygin, the today's shelling of the building of the MIA of Ingushetia, located in central Nazran, where, under the latest data, one person was lost also three others wounded, is a militants' reaction to detention of members of illegal armed formations and their helpers.

The water supply to the capital of South Ossetia, which was interrupted on January 30 because of the break of the "Edis-Tskhinvali" water line, was repaired today in the morning. The usual supply schedule was restored.

On January 26, the Novgorod Regional Court postponed consideration of the cassation, lodged by advocate Magomed Razakov and his client in the case on blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2007 Salambek Dzakhkiev, sentenced to two years of imprisonment for an attempt to bribe the inspector.

One person was lost also two more heavily wounded in the Nozhay-Yurt District of Chechnya, when an "Ural" truck with power agents inside fell down from the precipice.

Russia and South Ossetia have entered an agreement on visa-free trips of their citizens, which allows cross the border on both sides by domestic passports of Russia and South Ossetia. The document was signed by Sergey Lavrov and Murat Dzhioev, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia and South Ossetia. Tbilisi treats this Moscow's step as cynical and illegal.

A Chechen militiaman has fatally wounded himself from his service pistol. The Chechen MIA finds the suicide version unrealistic.

Today in Makhachkala, drivers of fixed-route taxis have not come to work. Meanwhile, Ferzullah Kakhrimanov, deputy head pf the administration of the capital of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the negotiations held yesterday in the afternoon resulted in an agreement to stop the strike.