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Maikop began preparations for the Congress of the Circassian nation of the Republic of Adygea. On January 22, the decision to convene the Congress was adopted at the extraordinary meeting of the Board of the Public Movement "Adyge-Khase Circassian Parliament" of the Republic of Adygea. The Congress is scheduled for February 11. The main agenda item will be the position of the Circassians of Syria and measures to assist them in connection with the aggravated situation in the country.

In considering the second reading of the new Georgian Administrative Code, Christian Democrats will demand a moratorium on administrative detention. This was announced by Levan Vepkhvadze, the representative of the faction in the Legal Committee of the Georgian Parliament. According to Zurab Dekanoidze, the head of the administration of the Committee on Legislation of the Parliament, the date of consideration of the Code is still unknown.

In Azerbaijan, in the near future, the initiators of the public campaign "Eurovision 2012: Sing for Democracy" plan to start protest actions, should the authorities fail to take effective measures to address human rights problems.

On January 21, several hundred fans of Moscow football clubs arrived in the city of Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga Region, where they held an action with a demand to punish the young man from the Caucasus, who had knifed their comrade friend in a mass brawl.

As reported by Musa Khadisov, the advocate of the Magmadovs, today he has submitted a cassation complaint to the Russia's Supreme Court against the verdict of guilty passed by the Moscow Regional Court in relation to Apti Magmadov and Aishat Magmadova. On January 18, Aishat was set free.

The Ingush oppositional website Ingushetiyaru.org, which suffered the strongest over the past few years hackers' attack, is partially restored, Magomed Khazbiev, the owner of the resource, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The criminal case of Shamil Djavatov, a resident of Makhachkala, accused of illegal possession of explosives, complicity to and participation in illegal armed formations (IAFs), has been sent to a new trial, while his relatives are going to submit a supervisory complaint to the Presidium of the Supreme Court of Dagestan.

International human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" is carrying out a press conference and a presentation of its report on the situation with human rights in Moscow.

The police of Dubai withdrew the order for international search of Deputy Adam Delimkhanov. Information about him was removed from the respective database of Interpol.

An ex-bodyguard of entrepreneur and Vice-President of Volgograd regional Boxing Federation who was killed earlier Vladimir Kadin, kidnapped in Volgograd was found alive. Two of the four abductors, residents of Chechnya, were detained, a source in law enforcement bodies reported.

Resident of Makhachkala Magomed Magomedov born in 1988 who disappeared in the evening of January, 20, is currently in the Center of Struggle against Extremism (CSE) of the capital of Dagestan, the young man's mother Inzhai Magomedova reported.

Today, Lenin Square in Astrakhan was the venue of the rally, organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) in memory of Vladimir Lenin. The action attracted 100 local residents.

Magomed Magomedov, born in 1988, a resident of Makhachkala, has disappeared in Dagestan, missing. The young man left home for work, but never appeared there. His relatives wrote an application to the police and appealed to human rights activists.

In Dagestan, residents of the village of Gimry plan to join the rally against the tyranny of power agents, which will be held on January 27 in Makhachkala.

Today, residents of Vladikavkaz again staged a rally demanding to close the "Electrozink" Factory, because, in their opinion, the amicable agreement between the enterprise bosses and the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) of North Ossetia is not fulfilled.

Experts from the bureau of forensic-medical examination of the Ministry of Public Health of Kabardino-Balkaria have concluded that Radima Ezieva, a botulism patient, who died in the Urvan district hospital, could have been saved by timely and appropriate treatment.

On January 21, at night, Anton Ryzhov, a member of the united mobile group of the Council of the Inter-Regional Committee against Torture (IRCAT), which is investigating torture and killings in Chechnya, was detained by the transport police, when he got out of the train in Nizhny Novgorod.

Alla Djioeva, a former presidential candidate in South Ossetia, said at a rally in Tskhinvali that she does not consider the repeated presidential election scheduled for March 25 as legitimate and would not take part in it.

One of those killed in the evening on January 20 in a car in Kotrov Street in Makhachkala had the ID of Umar Sagidmagomedov, a lawyer of the City Bar Association "Kavkaz".

As a result of the pre-investigation check, conducted by the investigatory committee on the fact of death of eight babies in a hospital in Nalchik, a criminal case was initiated under the article of negligence.