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The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reacted to the "World Report 2012: Georgia", published by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and dealing with the dispersal of the protest action in Tbilisi on May 26, 2011, and absence of proper inquiry into the incident. Shota Utiashvili, the head of the information-analytical service of the MIA, has reported about an objective inquiry and punishment of those guilty.

Residents of the township of Voikova, Oktiabrskiy District of Grozny, report about forced eviction and demolition of their houses. According to the city authorities, this is caused by the large-scale reconstruction undertaken in the township.

The members of the Sochi Branch of the Russian Geographic Society (RGS) have appealed to Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister and the head of the board of trustees of the Society, asking not to close the Branch. This was reported by Yulia Naberezhnaya, an RGS member.

Today, a resident of Kaspiysk Raziyat Musaeva has announced that during examination of the bodies of her sons Muslim and Malik Musaev, and of her brother Gadji Gadjiev their relatives found signs of torture on the body of her younger son.

The Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov has offered to provide a two-room flat to the large family Revenko, who are forced to live in a garage at the cemetery after their house was demolished, when a road junction was built. The authorities promise to grant a flat, provided a family member gets employed by the municipal service.

Polina Zherebtsova, the author of the diary about the war in Chechnya, published in autumn 2011, asked for political asylum in Finland and intends to sue Russia.

Today, ten former pilots have held a protest action outside the Georgian President's residence in Avlabari.

On January, 29, a picket of non-governmental organization "Environmental Patrol of Stavropolye" will be held in 200th Anniversary square in order to draw public attention to the problems of protection of natural resources, i.e. the springs and forests. The action will last from 13 till 15 o'clock and, according the organizers' preliminary estimation, will gather no less than three hundred people.

"Domodedovo" international airport of Moscow where yesterday evening an information of possible presence of explosive devices was verified is currently functioning in a normal mode.

Association of noncommercial organizations in Adygea "In Defense of the Voters' Rights "Golos" ("Vote") and civil movement "Union of Slavs of Adygea" stopped an action "I did not vote" the beginning of which was announced in December, 2011.

On January, 24, attorneys of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili appealed to the Appellate court of Tbilisi in order to lodge a complaint against the judgment of the city court on the case of restoration of his Georgian citizenship.

In 2011, the human rights situation in Azerbaijan deteriorated; the government suppressed all forms of protest. This was announced by the annual report on human rights situation in the world, prepared by the International human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW), which was released on January 22.

In the city of Novorossiysk of the Krasnodar Territory, Unidentified persons cut down trees, causing damage amounting to 15.5 million roubles.

A 23-year-old Sirazhudin Aliev was kidnapped by unidentified men in camouflage and masks. This was reported by Tamara Alieva, the mother of the kidnapped man, the resident of the city of Makhachkala.

Drivers of urban transport company in the city of Nalchik stopped their strike announced almost two weeks ago and began to work today.

Today, on the day of the anniversary of the terror act in the Moscow international "Domodedovo" Airport, relatives of victims gathered at the place of tragedy to honour their memory. The terror act took 38 human lives.

On January 23, the Chechen capital of Grozny hosted another protest action of the builders, who worked for Turkish Construction Companies "Penta" and "Bora Inshaat".

Today, about 50 persons came to the Embassy of France in Baku to protest against adoption by the French Senate - the upper house of the parliament - of the bill assuming punishment for negation of the genocides regarded as such by the law.

In Astrakhan, the today's court session has ruled to stop the criminal prosecution of the Deputy of the Astrakhan Region Duma Rifkat Shabanov, suspected of beating journalists and impeding their professional activities.

At least eight humans were lost and three others wounded over the past week, that is, on January 16-22, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.