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The territorial association (TA) of the Volgograd Region "Sotsprof" has sent an appeal to the regional governor Sergey Bozhenov concerning the problems of the disabled. According to activists of the association, the regional government is making too little to improve the status of people with disabilities.

Tonight in Kaspiysk, Dagestan, four unidentified persons opened fire at four other men, who were hospitalized with wounds of different severity.

In the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, residents of Djaparidze and Leselidze Streets located in the Khosta District on the left and right banks of the Sochi River, report that as at 11:00 p.m. Moscow time, the fire in the area of Orekhov Waterfalls did not go down and moved towards individual houses.

Within two months from the entry into force of the Law "On Amnesty", 3000 inmates will be released; and 14,000 others will have their terms reduced, said Sozar Subari, Minister for Correction, Probation and Legal Assistance of Georgia.

The tenants of an apartment building in the outskirt of the township Yablonovsky, which is a part of Adygea but located in a suburb of Krasnodar, report that they are without heating since the evening of December 31.

During the first days of 2013, residents of Sochi report about violations of public order in the city, illegal felling of trees and other accidents; they express discontent over the inadequate police reactions to their complaints.

In 2012, 30 Armenian families from Syria arrived in the Kashatakh District of Nagorno-Karabakh. Those who need housing will be provided with their own apartments in February, the district administration has promised.

In the Rostov Region, the public organization "Rostov without Drugs" is undertaking the action "With Faith for the Best", during which homeless people are given meals and New Year gifts.

The Chechen capital plan to build a synagogue; the ceremony of laying the foundation stone is scheduled for January 9. The site is in the place of the Ashkenazi synagogue that existed in the early 20th century.

On January 2, on the bottom of the Volga River, in the area of the central embankment of Volgograd, rescuers found a bone of a prehistoric animal, presumably a mammoth.

The website of electronic referenda "Democrator" began collecting signatures to the demand to allow girls from Muslim families to wear hijabs in schools.

As reported by the spokesman of the local FSB, Dinislam Karakotov, who has shelled the police building in the Malokarachay District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), had shot two locals before he was killed.

The spokesman of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated that on January 1 and 2 the Armenian Armed Forces broke the ceasefire.

The National Library will be opened in the Chechen capital in the near future, the administration of Grozny reports.

This morning, in Sochi, in the park area of Tchaikovsky Street, unidentified persons cut down six fifty-year-old cedars, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by eyewitnesses.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), a man who shelled the police station in the Malokarachay District of Karachay-Cherkessia and who was then killed was identified as Dinislam Karakotov, a member of the armed underground. This was reported by Kazim Baibanov, a MIA's representative.

Residents of the city of Derbent, affected by flooding of October 2012, are still in need of psychological support and financial aid. This was reported by Luiza Dibirova, the head of the Dagestani branch of the volunteer organization "Grazhdansky Korpus" (Citizens' Corps).

Today, Adygea marks the Memory Day of soldiers who died in local conflicts. The capital of the republic has hosted the mourning rally that was attended by veterans of the 131st Motorized Rifle Brigade, relatives and friends of the victims, representatives of the authorities, Cossacks and the clergy.

The Stepanakert Airport will start its first technical flights in early 2013. This was reported by Ara Arutyunyan, Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Chechnya continues to celebrate the New Year holidays. Places of cultural events and folk festivals are guarded by the police day and night.