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On January 27, the North-Ossetian MPs adopted – in the second and final readings – the Law "On Free Provision of Land Plots into Ownership of Large Families".

In June 2012, Armenia will be the ninth country, entrusted with the responsibility for organizing the Bologna process for the next three years, said Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Sciences of Armenia.

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and the Republic of Ingushetia have signed an agreement to create a special economic zone (SEZ) for tourism and recreation in the territory of the Djeirakh and Sunzha Districts of Ingushetia.

Alexander Kuryanov, a former Deputy Mayor of Rostov-on-Don for housing and municipal services, is a figurant of two criminal cases. He is accused of a fraud and abuse of service powers.

It is planned that equipment for video surveillance over the procedures of voting and vote count at the forthcoming Russian presidential election on March 4 will be installed at 253 polling stations of Kalmykia. The installation and connection works are carried out by the "Rostelecom".

Islam Satuev, Vice-President of the Swiss Football Club "Xamax" from the city of Neuchatel, was detained in Switzerland in the evening on January 26.

Killings of power agents, similar to the one committed in the evening on January 26 in a school in Nalchik, took place in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) in the past. As pointed out by law enforcers, the casualties of armed attacks were those regarded by members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) as power agents or their associates.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Chechen Republic has received almost 618,000 special stamps for ballot papers to be used at the upcoming Russian presidential election.

The defence of Aslan Cherkesov, a native of Nalchik, convicted for killing Yegor Sviridov, is getting ready to continue the litigation at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), said Dmitry Pankov, Cherkesov's advocate. According to his story, the complaint will be filed no earlier than March, after receipt of the cassation decision of the Russian Supreme Court (SC). On the other hand, Roman Kuchin, who is representing the victims, finds the SC's decision lawful and justified.

Over the last few days, several major road accidents caused by icy roads happened on motorways of the Stavropol Territory. According to Sergey Stepanidenko, a lawyer from the organization in defence of motorists' rights, the drivers who suffered in road accidents due to icy road conditions, may lodged civil claims against the road companies- defendants in civil cases, as they are responsible for keeping roads in good condition.

According to preliminary data, two women could fell victims to hurricane wind Novorossiysk, where gusts reached 35 meters per second. Energy workers continue eliminating bad weather consequences.

On January 26, Nicolas Bratza, Chairman of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg, said at a press conference that Russia is leading by the number of complaints submitted to the Court. According to his story, by December 31, 2011, the ECtHR had registered 40,250 complaints against Russia, which is 26.6 percent of total complaints received. A significant part of decisions on them has to do with the cases of residents of Northern Caucasus.

On January, 26, the Government of Armenia took a decision to stop switching to daylight-saving time.

Native of Ingushetia Magomed Akhtemirov was detained by the personnel of law enforcement bodies of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar region, yet on September, 16, 2011, however his location remains unknown as of today, Akhtemirov's relatives state.

Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited Azerbaijani military prisoner Akhunzade Mamedbagir Talyb oglu who is kept in Nagorno-Karabakh, Press secretary of the Mission of ICRC in Azerbaijan Khakhla Gahramanova informed.

This morning the city of Novorossiysk, several neighbouring settlements, Anapa and 7 rural settlements in the district were cut of power because of wire breakage caused by strong wind gusts. All in all over 212 thousand people and tens socially-significant objects are currently without power supply, officials of Southern regional center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

According to preliminary data on the results of a special operation in the settlement of Ekazhevo, Nazran district of Ingushetia, three supposed gunmen were killed. None of the members of power ministries got injured, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reported.

According to Georgian human rights defenders, the report of the international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) entitled "World report 2012: Georgia" was supposed to reflect the case of murder of Sandro Girgvliani and evaluate the actions of the prosecutor's office and position in the judicial system.

Department of Natural Resources and State Ecological Control of the Krasnodar Territory has announced a contest to prepare the materials for the closure of the state natural reserve "Bolshoy Utrish". Ecologists are concerned about plans to close the natural reserve, and they believe that the authorities intend to deprive of the protection status the most valuable parts of the Mediterranean forests, located on the Black Sea coast between the cities of Anapa and Novorossiysk.

Azerbaijan occupies the 162nd place in the "Press Freedom Index of 2011-2012" of the international organization in defence of the media "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB). The traditional RWB's report on the "Press Freedom Index" was released on January 25.