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Today, Makhachkala hosted an extraordinary session of the People's Assembly of Dagestan. Magomedsultan Magomedov, the Speaker of the Parliament, was dismissed from his post; and instead the parliamentarians have unanimously elected the former MP of the Russian State Duma Khizri Shikhsaidov.

Today, an attack on policemen was undertaken in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. During the fight, one attacker was killed and one more wounded. The policemen were not hurt, said the Investigatory Department for Dagestan of the ICRF.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered to dismiss Akhmed Bilalov from all his posts, namely, of Vice President of the Russian Olympic Committee and the head of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus", Dmitry Kozak, the Deputy Prime Minister, has reported.

Activists of the movement "Mekhk-Khel" have organized collection of signatures to a petition addressed to Vladimir Putin, demanding not to sign the bill that would allow the authorities of the republics of Northern Caucasus to cancel direct election of governors.

Valery Kalugin, a Deputy of the Stavropol Territorial Duma from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party, is accused of violating the "Road Traffic Rules", which entailed a human death, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Gusen Magomedov, who was searched for involvement in organizing terror acts in Moscow metro in 2010, was killed by law enforcers from their ambush, said a source from the Russian Special Forces.

Andreas Gukasyan, a presidential candidate and director of the "Radio-I", who is on a hunger strike, has health problems. Doctors have fixed low blood tension – 80/40, said Armen Grigoryan, a member of his election office.

The detention of three young men, who encouraged people to read books, is illegal, said Intigam Aliev, the head of the Society of Legal Education.

The report of the Human Rights Watch (HRW), based on interviews with migrant workers engaged at Olympic and other construction sites in Sochi, will be presented today at a briefing in Geneva. The report documents different violations of migrant workers' rights and facts of their exploitation by employers.

Tonight in Makhachkala, unidentified persons opened fire at a car with policemen inside and wounded one of them, a source from law enforcement bodies of the city has reported.

In the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in an attack on the crew of the road-and-post service (DPS), a policeman was lost; another one was hospitalized with wounds.

Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), arrested on charges of organizing riots in the city of Ismailly, has been nominated by the movement as a presidential candidate at the election of the head of Azerbaijan upcoming on October 16, 2013.

Tonight, near the village of Kadyrkent, Sergokalin District of Dagestan, a local opened fire at power agents and was killed by return fire.

Bidzina Ivanishvili has summed up his first 100 days in office as the Prime Minister of Georgia. He believes that he was successful.

The car of the Chechen policeman Magomed Eskerkhanov, who was kidnapped and killed in Dagestan, was found burned down in Khasavyurt, said the spokesman of the Investigatory department for Dagestan of the ICRF.

On February 4, the Nalchik City Court chaired by Judge Aslanbek Zhigunova held the first hearing on the lawsuit of Fuza Makhotlova, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), lodged against to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the KBR on protection of her honour, dignity and business reputation and compensation of moral damage on the fact of declaring her a suicide bomber.

On February 4, in the Georgian city of Gori, 42 refugee families received keys from their new apartments.

According to the Russia's MIA, the money allocated for capital repairs of the housing fund and resettlement of tenants from dilapidated houses was stolen.

The North-Caucasian Branch of the Savings Bank has paid more than a billion roubles of insurance compensations to residents of Dagestan on their deposits, opened at the Joint-Stock Commercial Bank "Express", whose license had been revoked.

The election of the President of Armenia will be held in accordance with the previously approved schedule and will not be postponed, since the candidate Airikyan has decided not to apply for the delay.