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Three natives of Ingushetia have been detained by policemen in Rostov-on-Don. Their relatives have learned that the detainees are suspected of intending to commit a terror act. A brother of one of them has turned to human rights organizations and the Public Oversight Commission of the Rostov Region with a request to prevent the torture of the detainees.

Aisha Selimkhanova, the spokesperson for the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), said that she fears for her life after a visit to the DRPO's office of unidentified persons who asked about her work schedule.

Russian and foreign winter sport fans have already bought out more than 70% of the tickets for the competitions of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, said Dmitry Chernyshenko, the President of the Organizing Committee "Sochi-2014". Most of them were sold through the Internet.

The Olympic Torch Relay in North Ossetia has been shortened for safety reasons and will be held on January 30 at the "Spartak" Stadium in Vladikavkaz, said the Ministry of Youth Matters, Physical Culture and Sports of North Ossetia.

According to recent data released by the Ministry of Public Health of Russia, hospitals of Volgograd and Moscow are still treating 38 victims of the terror acts.

In Dagestan on Thursday, the legal regime of counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the 20-kilometre band on the administrative border with the Stavropol Territory and in the Tarum District, the republic's operative headquarters has reported.

The reasons for refusal and future actions of the organizers will be announced at a press conference to be held on January 17 by the organizing committee, Abakar Abakarov, one of the organizers of the event, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

At the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, medical support will be provided by nearly 1300 health professionals from Moscow, Republic of Tatarstan and Krasnodar territorial medical institutions. This was reported by the Ministry of Public Health for the Krasnodar Territory. Doctors are ready to render medical assistance at 39 centres located at 18 Olympic venues.

In Chechnya, local residents report that within recent days, law enforcers regularly detain in the streets and interrogate young people as suspected followers of radical Islam. According to the local residents, the law enforcers persecuted men wearing beards and women in hijabs. Officials from the law enforcement bodies explain the situation by taking preventive measures.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and Plamen Oresharski, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, have confirmed their intention to come to Sochi to attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games. The Bulgarian National TV Company is preparing to a large-scale coverage of the 2014 Olympic Games.

In December 2013, at least 107 people suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; of them, 62 people died and 45 were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

A negative information environment is deliberately created around the lawyer Murad Musaev in order to put pressure on him and discredit him in the eyes of the jurors at the trials, in which he is involved, in particular, in the trial on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the lawyer Tatiana Okushko believes. Other experts treat the latter trial as a politicized one.

In Dagestan, law enforcers have put Murad Musaev, a native of Buynaksk, on the wanted list on suspicion of involvement in terrorism. This was reported today by the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Earlier, Murad Musaev was put on the wanted list by Voronezh law enforcement bodies.

In Nalchik, during a search of a young man, policemen found two hand grenades, ammunition, and drugs. This was reported by the press service of the Chief Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria.

In Sochi, Oksana Toropova, 28-year-old businesswoman, and her mother Olga Martynyuk, 49-year-old teacher, are accused of beating a court marshal in the office of a judge of the Khosta District Court. The mother and her daughter deny the accusations.

In Dagestan, a criminal case was opened on the fact of death of a woman as a result of policemen's use of their firearms in pursuit of a car, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported. In the opinion of Salikh Gadjiev, the Deputy Chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Interior Workers and Prosecutors of Dagestan, the policemen have wrongfully used their firearms.

For safety reasons, Olympic torch relay in Dagestan will be held in the "Anji Arena", and the number of torchbearers will be cut from 270 to 67. This was reported by an official from the Ministry for Sports of Dagestan.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the appeal filed by Nikolai Alekseev, an LGBT activist, against the Court's decision to refuse to hold a gay pride parade in Sochi.

The implementation of a policy of civil reconciliation would at first create a surge of violence, but this is the only way to lead the North Caucasus out of its crisis, say the authors of the report “The North Caucasus: quo vadis?” Irina Starodubrovskaya and Konstantin Kazenin. They noted that the recommendations of the report are primarily addressed to civil society, not to the authorities.

At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games to be held in Sochi on February 7, the British delegation will be headed by Maria Miller, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sports. This was announced by an official from the Department for Culture, Media and Sports.