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On January 21, at night, Anton Ryzhov, a member of the united mobile group of the Council of the Inter-Regional Committee against Torture (IRCAT), which is investigating torture and killings in Chechnya, was detained by the transport police, when he got out of the train in Nizhny Novgorod.

Alla Djioeva, a former presidential candidate in South Ossetia, said at a rally in Tskhinvali that she does not consider the repeated presidential election scheduled for March 25 as legitimate and would not take part in it.

One of those killed in the evening on January 20 in a car in Kotrov Street in Makhachkala had the ID of Umar Sagidmagomedov, a lawyer of the City Bar Association "Kavkaz".

As a result of the pre-investigation check, conducted by the investigatory committee on the fact of death of eight babies in a hospital in Nalchik, a criminal case was initiated under the article of negligence.

On January 20, in Moscow, at the roundtable "Northern Caucasus in Context of Federalism", economists, political scientists and regional representatives discussed the reasons and consequences of major conflicts in the regions of Northern Caucasus.

In the social network Facebook, a group has been created named "Let's rebury Jaba Ioseliani out of the Pantheon", which already has more than 2100 members.

Today is a day of mourning in Azerbaijan: the country marks the 22nd anniversary of the entry to Baku of army units, which was accompanied by numerous victims among the civilian population. Azerbaijan declared January 20 to be a day off.

In Azerbaijan, Rasim Aliev and Ali Guseinov, two citizens of Azerbaijan, who planned murder of foreign public figures in Baku, were arrested. This was reported by the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan.

Muslim Seitekaev, a resident of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, kept at IVS (temporary detention facility), is not allow to be visited by his defender. This was reported by Sapiyat Magomedova, the detainee's lawyer.

Today, in Makhachkala, law enforcement agents detained seven mosque's parishioners, who distributed leaflets calling out for a rally against arbitrariness of power agents on January 27. This was reported by Abas Kebedov, one of the organizers of the rally, co-Chairman of the human rights organization "Dagestan - Territory of Peace and Development".

In the course of today's court session at the Saratov Garrison Military Court dealing with the desertion case of Private Andrei Popov, who stated earlier about his slavery in Dagestan, the prosecutor announced results of testing Popov by a polygraph (lie detector). Andrei Popov stated that he had been beaten at brick factories in Dagestan.

In Baku, the Yasamal Court has sentenced two detainees in the course of the protest of taxi drivers on January 19 to five days of administrative arrest.

Sochi communists made held a documentary analysis of the recent elections to the Russian State Duma. According to their version, the Sochi Territorial Election Commission (TEC) doubled the real number of votes won by the ruling "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party. The TEC spokesman refutes the allegations.

To date, Northern Caucasus is in the lead among Russian regions in money laundering, Alexander Khloponin, Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said today at the Collegium of the MIA of the NCFD.

The parties in the litigation "Kadyrov vs. Orlov" differ in assessing the outcome of the trial. The defendant and his representatives are satisfied with the decision of the court, while the claimant has not yet decided whether to appeal against the verdict or not.

Issa Khashagulgov, a resident of Karabulak, accused of organizing a terror acts at the Central Marketplace in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, was tortured by unidentified persons, who demanded that he gave evidences as wanted by the investigation, said Issa's advocate Batyrbek Akhilgov.

Cherkessk city court acknowledged resident of Stavropol region Oleg Motylev guilty of misappropriation of 40 million rubles from federal budget funds.

Money was paid for release of 15 Georgian and three Turkish sailors from the Somali pirates' prison but it was not done by the government of Georgia, Chairman of United Trade Unions of the country Irakly Petriashvili said.

This morning an avalanche protection group in Karachay-Cherkessia started compulsory descent of snow slides in a ski resort of Dombai, commander of the group Ramazan Abazaliev reported.

Committee of Soldiers' Mothers reported mass disease among the servicemen of a Russian military base in South Ossetia which the command of Sothern military Okgug called fiction.