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Despite a relative stability of the currency exchange market of Azerbaijan, the country has a high risk of a new devaluation of the national currency – the manat, said Natig Jafarli, an economist. Gubad Ibadoglu, the head of the Economic Research Centre, believes that only support of the state can save the country's banking sector from collapse.

In the period of from February 1 to February 7, Dagestan has registered 4770 cases of SARS and influenza. Of them, 69% are children. Since the beginning of the epidemiological season, the incidence rate in the republic did not exceed the epidemic threshold.

In Volgograd, officials have guaranteed, at a meeting with tenants of the destroyed apartment block, to build a new house in Kosmonavtov Street, but there is no official decision on that so far, said Larisa Borodaeva, the leader of tenants-activists, adding that the issue of free legal aid to tenants ids still pending.

Any irony about the incident with Mikhail Kasyanov is inappropriate; and nobody will be prosecuted for the attack, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Musail Alaudinov, a coach of the club "Gorets" (Highlander), was killed after beating up Murad Alibekov, the owner of the network of fuelling stations, said the brother of the athlete at the court session in Dagestan.

A new high-rise building will be built in place of the destroyed nine-story apartment house in Kosmonavtov Street in the Dzerzhinsky District of Volgograd in one year, said Andrei Bocharov, Governor of the Volgograd Region.

The Imam, detained by the police, is suspected of unlawful confinement of a 27-year-old woman from Derbent and her four-year-old child, said Rasul Temirbekov, the spokesman of the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The protesters, detained during the action against the detention of Imam Gadjirasul, have been released from the police, said one of the employees of the mosque. According to his story, the Imam urged parishioners to disperse.

Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President, has treated the attack on Mikhail Kasyanov, the Chairman of the PARNAS Party, committed in downtown Moscow, as molestation.

The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has dismissed an appeal complaint against the decision of the Alagir District Court on demolition of the fence and house built near the Dzivgis Fortress. The complaint was filed by the family, which had erected the structures.

The bill on amendments that impose restrictions on exporting currencies from Azerbaijan was returned to Parliament at the request of entrepreneurs and investors, said the service of the assistant of the head of the country on economic reforms.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Magaramkent District of Dagestan has delivered to the court the case against Marik Nurmagamedov, a resident of the village of Magaramkent, accused of involvement in warfare as a member of an armed grouping.

The critical statements of the head of Chechnya about the non-systemic opposition as traitors caused negative reaction in 59% of the Russians polled by the "Levada Centre". The number of Russian citizens, in whom Kadyrov evokes positive emotions, has declined over the last year from 35% to 17%, says the report of the Centre.

The Moscow police have launched an inquiry into the attack on Mikhail Kasyanov, Chairman of the PARNAS Party, within the administrative legislation. He himself treats the attack on him with the threats received from the head of Chechnya.

Investigators believe that the 34-year-old resident of the village of Islamey, Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), helped members of the underground by providing housing and foodstuffs.

The court that considers the murder case of the Dagestani journalist Abdulmalik Akhmedilov has read out testimonies of three prosecution witnesses, extended the arrest of the defendants by two months, and ruled to force two witnesses to the next session scheduled on February 17, said one of the advocates.

Two opposition parties – the "Armenian National Congress" (ANC) and the Front of National Salvation "New Armenia" – received permits to hold rallies in Freedom Square, dedicated to the events on March 1, 2008.

When preparing the report "Threat to National Security" about Ramzan Kadyrov, information from open sources, including materials of the "Caucasian Knot", was analyzed; but the report will also present new data, said the author of the report Ilya Yashin, an opposition politician.

In Derbent, Imam of a Salafi mosque was detained by law enforcers in the territory of the "Airport" residential district. Local residents are gathering in front of the police station and demanding to release the Imam.

In the rear of the "Islamic State" (IS), not the Chechen spetsnaz (special troops) are operating, but just "self-organized groups of young people," who "risk their lives and suffer losses," representatives of the republic's leadership have admitted.