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An anti-fascist action in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova was held in Moscow.

PACE delegation who visited Armenia issued a statement expressing concern about the process of presidential election in the country. Representatives of the authorities are disappointed with this statement.

A special operation of search and liquidation of a group of supposed gunmen is going on in the high-mountain Shatoisky district of Chechnya.

A demand of Andreas Gukasyan, candidate for presidency of Armenia, Director of “Radio-Ai”, to suspend the incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan’s participation in the election, therefore, on January, 21, Gukasyan is starting an open-ended hunger strike.

Boris Pylin, Co-chairman of Volgograd regional branch of PARNAS (People's Freedom Party), held a single-person picket demanding resignation of regional Governor Sergey Bozhenov’s circle. The reason for the action was detention of Deputy Chairman of regional Government Pavel Krupnov.

Shuaibgadji Magomedov convicted for accusation of committing a number of crimes in Kizlyar district whose case was considered by judge of the Supreme Court of Dagestan Magomed Magomedov killed on January, 15, reports pressure brought on him by the personnel of the IIW after murder of the judge on January, 15.

Tonight unidentified people in the Georgian settlement of Zemo Alvani, Kakhetia, poured pink paint over a restored monument to Joseph Stalin.

Two smoking convicts were placed in the same cell with him, lawyer Ziautdin Uvaisov states. According to him, Baimambetov submitted a complaint to Chief of IIW and Public Prosecutor. However, there was no information of consideration of his statement.

Participants of an action of oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) demanded release of four convicted activists of the party in front of the building of Prosecutor General’s.

Head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov ordered to discharge Deputy Minister of Agriculture Amerhan Archakov and employee of accounts department of the Ministry Adam Chertanov. Their names appeared in businessmen’s complaints from whom they demanded money during distribution of grants.

International human rights organization Freedom House issued its annual report on the situation with democracy and human rights in the world in which Nagorno-Karabakh was removed from the list of constrained countries and recognized partially free.

Tbilisi city court decided to release Shota Khizanishvili, ex-Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs of Georgia and presently Vice-Mayor of Tbilisi, on bail.

Military garrison court of Vladikavkaz brought a verdict on the case of serviceman Tleppergen Zalukashev accused of violation of statutory regulations and interrelationship. The defendant was acknowledged guilty of the death of his colleague Artem Zgersky and sentenced to 4 years and 6 months of custody in a general regime colony.

Today in Moscow the defence of Yusup Temerkhanov suspected of murder of colonel Yuri Budanov accused secret services of kidnapping witness Alexander Evtukhov. Evtukhov himself denied the information of his disappearance.

Today experts of the Department of Federal Security Service in Dagestan defused an explosive device in the center of Makhachkala.

During trial on the case of ex-Minister of Defense of Georgia Irakly Okruashvili Public Prosecutor’s office withdrew a charge of creation of a paramilitary group brought against him, the defendant’s attorney Zviad Kordzadze reported.

No less than 14 persons became victims of armed conflict in North Ossetia in 2012, seven of them were killed and as many got wounded. This is the total of calculation by the Caucasian Knot based on its own correspondents’ data and information from other open sources.

The people who suffered as a result of a heavy shower with hail in summer of 2012 demand to pay them compensations promised earlier.

The totals of election of Speaker of State Council, Khase Adygea, i.e. 42 votes for Vladimir Narozhny and five against, are a result of pressure of the authorities of the republic, Vladimir Karataev, Coordinator of “Golos” (“Vote”) association in the region, considers. However, the deputies themselves deny external impact on the results of voting.

Krasnodar regional court once again dismissed the motion of challenge to the judge entered by the defense party on the case of mass murder in the stanitsa of Kushevskaya.