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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.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported today that Yakub Khashagulgov, who was detained in Ingushetia, is suspected of aiding the members of the criminal grouping responsible for the attack in the central marketplace of Vladikavkaz.

Today, Tbilisi hosted a protest demanding not to soften the law "On Occupied Territories", which treats South Ossetia and Abkhazia as such.

On February 8, in Tbilisi, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili made an appeal from his residence, claiming MPs being pressured to adopt constitutional amendment.

At night on February 8, in the village of Dideba near Tbilisi, unidentified persons painted the monument to Stalin in pink. In Georgia, since the beginning of the year, this is the third similar incident with regard of monuments to Stalin.

Deliveries of wine and mineral water from Georgia to Russia are disrupted because of the Georgian side's failure to fulfil the agreements on provision of documents.

On February 7, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) adopted to the consideration the complaint filed by Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), about the failure of the authorities of the country to issue a passport to him. Because of its lack, Ali Kerimli cannot leave the country for about 7 years.

Tonight, Georgian law enforcement agents detained Guram Donadze, the former head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). He is accused of abuse of power to conceal facts during the investigation into the murder of Dota Robakidze in 2004.

On February 8, Yerevan hosted a march under the slogan "Down with regime and fabricated election!", at the end of which the marchers collected signatures demanding to expel international observers from the country.