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The person, perished in the morning of February 6 during the special operation in Dagestan, was the courier of Yandiev brothers involved in the terror act at the "Domodedovo" Airport. This was reported by the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC).

Today, Aik Gevorkyan, the economic commentator of the oppositional newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time), who was arrested on February 3 in Armenia, faced change of the pre-trial restriction measure he was released from custody at the court hearing. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the newspaper's edition office.

On February 5, a 19-year-old resident of the city of Moscow, who was detained in Grozny on suspicion of intent to establish contacts with militants and commit a suicide bombing, was brought to Moscow. Local human right defenders treated with distrust the report of the Chechen law enforcement agencies on detention of the suspected woman-terrorist, announced after the message of Dokku Umarov, the leader of North-Caucasian militants, about stopping terrorist attacks against the civilian population.

Swedish authorities intend to deport to Russia Emilkhan Sadaev, the former ally of Aslan Maskhadov, President of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. He had inflicted on himself injuries, and after that he was transferred to hospital. In particular, journalist Nadezhda Banchik reported on a suicide attempt.

A Committee for regulations of land use and development with the Mayor's office of Sochi held public hearings on development of the health resort. Activists of ecologic and non-governmental organizations refused to participate in the discussion. According to Chief Architect of the city, the hearings passed within legal boundaries.

About 70 people in Vladikavkaz took part in a two-hour action held in Pobedy (Victory) square held on February, 5. They expressed their protest against the work of "Electrozinc" plant. The participants of the action demanded to close the enterprise or move it away from the city for the reason of its negative impact on the environment.

Today at 9:30 p.m. Moscow time, in Nalchik, in Pushkin Street, unidentified persons opened automatic fire at the car of the inspector of the second division of the Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation.

In Nalchik, at the Memorial to Balkars-Victims of Repressions an oppositional rally, sanctioned by city authorities, was held. The main topics of the protest were flawed elections and land problems existing in the republic.

Today, at 2:00-4:00 p.m. Moscow time, a rally was held in Sochi within the nationwide campaign "For Fair Elections", which was attended by about three hundred people.

Today, Astrakhan hosted an oppositional rally "For Fair Elections", which was not sanctioned by city authorities. The action was attended by about 150 activists of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), "The Other Russia" and other political movements and parties.

Residents of the village of Khutrakh, Tsuntin District of Dagestan, brothers Omar and Gusein Magomedov, and Gazimagomed Akhmedov, a resident of the village of Shaumyan, Kizlyar District, regarded as missing since February 3, have been found in the Kizlyar ROVD (District Interior Division).

Krasnodar has hosted a rally "For Fair Elections"; it was coordinated with city authorities and attended by OSCE observers.

The city of Rostov-on-Don has hosted a rally "For Fair Elections", which brought together about a thousand people. Organizers report about two detainees.

The health condition of the beaten residents of the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, Magomed Baisultanov, Aslangerey Magomedov and Zainudin Zainudinov, is satisfactory, said the head of the village administration Aliaskhab Magomedov. As reported by one of the power agents' victims, he is not going to complain about their actions.

As reported by a source from law enforcement bodies of Chechnya, the police have detained in Grozny a 20-year-old Muscovite, who, according to her story, had planned to get trained as a suicide bomber and subsequently commit a terror act in Moscow.

The operation aimed at finding the grouping of militants, which was detected on February 2 near the Chechen-Dagestani administrative border, has brought no results yet. Power agents do not exclude that the blocked militants could get out of the cordon. The special operation continues.

Today, the whole territory of the Chechen Republic hosts celebrations of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, which began early in the morning.

Complaints of residents of the Dagestani village of Khrakh-Uba, the Russian enclave in Azerbaijan, of the failure of the authorities to ensure the citizens' rights are groundless. This was declared by Bekmurza Bekmurzaev, Minister of National Policy, Religious Affairs and External Relations of the Republic of Dagestan.

In Sochi, Yuri Chesnokov, Chief of Division for Recreation and Tourism of the Khosta District, who signed the schedule for obtaining absentee ballots sent to the sanatorium-and-spa institutions, was dismissed for exceeding the power.

With the onset of cold weather in the Volgograd Region, 25 persons died from hypothermia. This was reported by Natalya Kunitskaya, Senior Assistant of the Chief of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) of the Volgograd Region for Media Relations.