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As reported by the website of the Regional Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office, the court decided to arrest 2 out of 19 detained Astrakhan employees of the STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, known as "GIBDD"), while the arrest of other suspects is currently considered.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya refutes the fact of detention of Russian human rights activists. As reported by the press service of the Ministry, the Russian human rights defenders were not detained, but just brought to the Shali District OVD (Interior Division) for a check.

Today, President of Russia has brought his nominee - Magomedsalam Magomedov - in the National Assembly of Dagestan for approval to the post of the President of the republic.

The relatives of Maksharip Aushev, the Ingush oppositionist murdered in Kabardino-Balkaria, are dissatisfied with the course of inquiry and ask to transfer the case to the central machinery of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation.

Zubair Omarov, an inspector of the Investigatory Committee for especially important cases at the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, informed two figurants of the "execution list" today that they are regarded as victims in criminal case No. 96892, dealing with appeals to murders and grave crimes.

As reported by the Investigatory Department for Chechnya of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia, on February 4 the leader of a group of militants was assassinated in one of the settlements of the Vedeno District of Chechnya in the course of a special operation held in the south of the republic.

The court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan communities Centre-Nork-Marash has passed a verdict of "non-guilty" to human rights activist Arshaluis Akopyan, who is in custody for five months.

On Friday, February 5, St Petersburg was the venue of the first run and discussion of film "Aldy. With No Limitation Period", showing the events ten years ago, when on February 5, 2000, in a clean-up ("zachistka") in Novye Aldy village in Chechnya, conducted by the St Petersburg OMON (special militia), 56 peaceful residents were killed.

The Russian Federal Service on Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (known as "Rostekhnadzor") has considered the application of liberal-democrats of Northern Ossetia dealing with the adverse ecological situation due to emissions of the "Electrozink" factory.

The National Centre of Assessments and Examinations has published statistics on the most demanded departments chosen by high school entrants in Georgia in this academic year. The most popular departments are of business and economy, law, international relations, sociology and information technologies. Only 0.8 percent of all the entrants plan to apply to pedagogical departments.

In Makhachkala, employees of Dagestan law-enforcement agencies and inspectors of the Chief Investigatory department on the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts are investigating the murder of Ahmed Magomedov, head of the UVD (Interior Department) of Makhachkala.

On February 5, Volgograd hosted a sitting on safe neutralization of environmentally hazardous substances. A microbiological preparation named "Bioglauconite", created by Volgograd scientists, was presented to the audience.

Residents of the Mineralovodskiy District of the Stavropol Territory stand in defence of the mineral source, located in the place, where local authorities plan to build a landfill for domestic wastes. People are afraid that garbage from the whole vicinity will be brought here.

Today in the morning, the Rostov Musical Theatre hosted a solemn opening of the All-Russian educational action "Healthy Hearts". The aim of the action is to draw attention of people to their health, in particular, to vascular diseases.

On February 5, activists of Georgian oppositional parties held a march of protest with a demand to release political prisoners. They stuck posters to the wall of buildings in the Rustaveli Avenue with photos of political prisoners.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, the first in the region's history feature film about the Karabakh War - "House which Shot" - was made. It is planned that it will launch the cycle of feature films based on real facts.

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has defined the winner of the tender, held on designing, building and further development of the Zoological Park, intended to house endangered animal species. The German-Turkish company will build a zoo in the territory of more than 200 hectares.

Four persons, including two children, suffered in Batumi, when two floors of the 14-storey building, which is in construction, cracked down at night on February 4.

When the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) mission was in Sochi, Red Book trees were still cut down along the joint road Adler-Krasnaya Polyana. This is stated by the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus.

The phthisiology service in Karachai-Circassia is in a pitiable condition. It is recognized by Khusei Kurdanov, Minister of Public Health. He marks that conditions in the republic's TB clinic are below all sanitary standards.