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From December, 8, 2009, when the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation liquidated the community of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog and prohibited the activities of believers of this confession in two more districts of Rostov region, till the end of 2001, 197 cases of violation of the rights of this religious organization took place in the South of Russia. This was told to the “Caucasian Knot” in the Management Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

On February, 14, the third trial in Krasnodar regional court passed off during which the question of taking Dmitry Novikov, retired judge of Khosta district of Sochi, into custody. A break in the trial was announced till February, 16.

The crew of the Russian vessel “Rustika” standing in the sea-port of Vladivostok went on a hunger strike because of a two-month backpay. The arrears of wages makes 50 thousand dollars. 11 members of “Rustika” crew are taking part in the hunger strike. The vessel is standing near the mooring of “Dalzavod”.

Kurman Ismailov, Deputy Mufti of the Stavropol Territory, who was killed on February 13 in Pyatigorsk, in 2011, was detained by power agents on suspicion of possessing explosives. Kurman Ismailov was released without charges, he was supported by well-known human rights defenders and members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation; however, after his detention and release, he stated that he did not feel safe and expected "the second act of that play, the final one."

The lawyers intend to challenge actions of the head of the investigatory group against Issa Khashagulgov, a native of Ingushetia. Besides, Batyrbek Akhilgov and Rosa Alieva stated that they could not meet their client.

Putting Sergey Arakcheev on the list of political prisoners has provoked an information campaign against him in mass media, said the lawyer Dmitry Agranovskiy during a press conference on resonant cases against former militaries convicted for criminal offences.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has cancelled the decision of the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow to release Rasul Mirzaev, the world sambo champion, accused of manslaughter of the 19-year-old Ivan Agafonov, on bail of 100,000 roubles.

On February 13, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Volgograd sentenced Alexander Savelyev, Chief of the Operational Service Division of the Department of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (UFSKN) in the Volgograd Region, to 9 years of imprisonment in high security colony for sale of narcotics.

An action of public solidarity "Let's save each other!" assuming to help homeless people during the cold season, is held in Tbilisi by the Media Union "Objective".

Today, in the capital of Dagestan, four persons, including a child of four, got poisoned to death by carbon monoxide.

An explosion and subsequent fire in the cafe named "Bellagio" in Volgograd have injured 16 persons. According to preliminary data, a gas bottle has exploded, said the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Volgograd Region.

A resident of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia has reported about disappearance in this republic of his brother Amirkhan Gadaborshev, who lives in Kabardino-Balkaria.

On February, 13, experts of the Ministry of Nature protection together with activists of non-governmental movements held an ecologic action on additional fertilizing of about 500 individuals of Dalmatian pelicans who had flown in a non-frozen area of the sea coast in Makhachkala.

Public prosecutor's office of Moscow appealed against the judgment of Zamoskvoretsky court of releasing on bail the twenty-five-years-old World champion in mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev after whose blow a nineteen-years-old student Ivan Agafonov died, Prosecutor General's of Russia reported.

Ex-candidate for presidency of South Ossetia Alla Djioeva issued a statement in which she asks personally Vadim Brovtsev acting as President of the republic to explain the reasons for the storm of her election staff on February, 9. The statement also runs that Djioeva is going to bring all those guilty of the assault at her staff to account, including a possible appeal to the European Court.

The police of the town of Kamensk-Shakhtisky, Rostov region, are carrying out search of an armed man who opened fire in a store and wounded a shop assistant.

On February, 13, a resident of Sochi perished and three more persons got injured as a result of explosion of an unidentified object.

On February, 13, lance sergeant of National Army Kyamran Djoshgun oglu Gajiev perished in a military unit of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan.

Three policemen perished and six got wounded in a battle at the administrative border between Chechnya and Dagestan on February, 13.

Nikolai Trotsyuk, ex-Chairman of the religious community Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog (Rostov Region), liquidated in 2009 in accordance with the Rostov Regional Court decision, signed a recognizance not to leave. This was told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Grigory Martynov, the representative of the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.