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An unidentified person in Dagestan fired upon a senior lieutenant of police, officer of standby unit of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in Khasavyurt. The man was gravely wounded and taken to hospital.

An ex-officer of local police got wounded at the moment of blasting of a car in Derbent. He was taken to hospital in a grave state, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported.

A home-made explosive device was activated in the evening of February, 12, on the line of march of a motorcade of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation in the town of Buinaksk, Dagestan.

A bill draught stipulating criminal liability for denial of genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was introduced to the Bureau of National Assembly of France.

One of the leaders of “Southern” group Kurban Guseinov was among those killed in a special operation at the border of Tabasaran and Derbent districts of Dagestan today, National Anti-Terrorist Committee reports.

Today during search in one of the houses of Sunzha district of Ingushetia officers of Federal Security Service killed a local resident who according to National Anti-Terrorist Committee’s version, opened fire at them.

Today 350 drivers of municipal buses in Batumi, Adzharia, went on a strike. Their main demand is wage rise.

On February, 11, on the initiative of “Trkchan Defenders” group an action of protest connected with construction of a hotel complex near the building of the Armenian Cultural Relations Society (ACRS) was held in Yerevan.

During trial on the case of colonel Yuri Budanov’s murder the defense introduced witness Fataliev’s statement submitted to Public Prosecutor’s office and Committee of Inquiry in which he reported undergoing pressure.

All the mines and plants stopped work because of a strike of miners and workers in Chiatura, Western Georgia, majority Deputy Malkaz Tsereteli reported today.

Upon the verdict of Verkhnepyshminsky city court, policemen Vadim Zainiev and Sergey Zinoviev in Sverdlovsky region were acknowledged guilty of negligence while carrying out their service duties during disturbances in Sagra that carried away the life of a native of Azerbaijan.

Law enforcement bodies of Dagestan inspected over 40 persons for suspicion of murder of two children in Dagestan and over 10 were detained, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reports.

90 students from Syria were admitted to the State University of Kabardino-Balkaria. 12 more persons are expected to arrive to enter the University until February, 20.

The activists of the party named "Novaya Sila" (New Force) Oksana Borisova and Ilya Kartsev have been fined by 10,000 roubles each for organizing an unauthorized gathering in Stavropol, which was held on February 9.

The court in Yerevan has granted the motion of the investigation and ordered the arrest the Armenian citizens Khachatur Pogosyan and Samvel Arutyunyan on suspicion of an attempt on presidential candidate Paruir Airikyan.

On February 4 and 6, 78 families of refugees from South Ossetia received housing. The Ministry of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons of Georgia has accommodated them in the buildings of former kindergartens and schools in Khashuri and Gori.

This morning, the lawyer Levon Bagdasaryan, a representative of the presidential candidate Paruir Airikyan, has recalled Airikyan's application on postponement of the presidential election by two weeks, a source from the press service of the Constitutional Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the Prigorodny District Court of North Ossetia has started examining the prosecutor's evidence in the criminal case of two women-residents of Dagestan Zalina Gabibulaeva and Zaira Akaeva, in whose car explosives were found.

Anahit Ayatyan, the press secretary of the Ministry of Public Health of Armenia, said that the blood tension of Andreas Gukasyan corresponds to the one of a person on hunger strike.

The travel of "Rospotrebnadzor" experts to Georgia to inspect the enterprises, which are ready to supply their products to Russia, has been postponed by at least a week.