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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.

Under update information, the triggered grenade launcher, found in a children's playground in the city of Nazran, Ingushetia, injured four OMON (special militia) fighters, an inspector and a local resident.

Negotiations of three presidents on Karabakh conflict; outcomes of Geneva discussions; attempts in Southern and newly formed North-Caucasian Federal Districts; terror act in Abkhazia, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of January 25-31, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the evening on Saturday, January 30, in the Krasnodar Territory, in the Southern Gambling Zone "Azov-City", a solemn opening ceremony of the first in Russia legal gambling institution - the "Oracle" Casino - took place.

Tonight in Ingushetia, unidentified persons shot dead a Nazran local resident named Dobriev, a relative of the Ingush human rights activist Maksharip Aushev, assassinated last October. Dobriev died in place from received wounds.

The Norwegian Council on Refugees' Matters has closed its office in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, where refugees from Chechnya live. According to the refugees, the new head of the Council demanded to close the office.

Valery Gaevskiy, Governor of the Stavropol Territory, made an offer to the famous sculptor Zurab Tsereteli to erect a monument of unity of the Caucasian nations in Pyatigorsk, the capital of the newly formed North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

The number of Armenian schools in Istanbul continues to go down; the basic problem of the community is to preserve the language. This was stated to journalists by turcologist Ruben Melkonyan, deputy dean of the department of oriental studies of the Yerevan State University.

Residents of Kalmykia think, and social polls support their conclusions, that STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) employees, militiamen, and workers of medical and educational establishments are most corrupted in their republic. It was declared on January 28 by Prime Minister Vladimir Sengleev at the government's sitting.

Moscow is worried with another "fact of disrespect by the authorities of Georgia of the memory of soldiers who perished in the Great Patriotic War." This was stated by Andrei Nesterenko, official spokesman of the Russian of Foreign Affairs.

The erection of Orthodox Creeping Crosses in Adygea causes dissatisfaction among the Circassian community of the republic. Murat Berzegov, head of the Circassian Congress, treats the erection of crosses as provocation; while the "Adyge Khasse" asks the President of the republic to interfere with the situation. In the turn, representatives of the Orthodox Church are indignant with the facts of damaging the crosses and believe it to be desecration of relics.

In the nearest months some four thousand citizens of Georgia will be sent away from Poland. Georgian officials admit that their fellow citizens has mostly crossed the Belarusian-Polish border illegally; and then addressed Polish authorities for political asylum.