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On January 13, residents of the Svetloyarsk District, Volgograd Region, which is bordering on the Southern Industrial Zone of Volgograd, again felt a stable and suffocating smell of chlorine. The officials of local "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Nature Protection) have no data yet about the nature and volume of release.

As reported by a source from the Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) the reason of the tragedy in the city of Baksan on January 14, when a fire killed a woman and two small children, was an explosion of household gas.

The apartment houses in the micro-district "Kooperator" in the city of Baksan (Kabardino-Balkaria) have been connected to the heating system after the "Caucasian Knot" made a respective publication.

The Rostov Regional Court has found a female associate professor from the Shakhty Institute guilty of bribe-taking and fined her by 40,000 roubles.

According to the data verified by the "Caucasian Knot", the information that a verdict against ex-head of Criminal police of Karabulak Iljas Nalgiev was going to be brought on January, 13, spread by Lifenews.ru after an attempt at Nalgiev is untrue.

A police car was fired upon in the evening of January, 15, near the settlement of Novokhushet, Dagestan. No one was injured.

Georgia moved from the 29th position in 2011 in the rating of economic freedom index to the 34th place in 2012. This is the best index among the countries of Southern Caucasus mentioned in a report drawn up by American Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Wall Street Journal.

Zelimkhan Dzangiev, a well-known goal scorer of "Angusht" Ingush football club, was killed in Vladikavkaz. According to unofficial information, it happened as a result of a scuffle near a night club.

In Dagestan, five employees of the Magaramkent ROVD (District Interior Division) thrashed Sharvili Ramazanov, 14, a resident of the village of But-Kazmalyar, said his mother Tsukver Ramazanova.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found Armenia guilty of breaking the right to freedom of conscience and religion in relation to Ike Bukharatyan and Ashot Tsaturyan, convicted in 2003 for refusal from military service on religious convictions.

In Azerbaijan, relatives of Turadj Zeinalov, who died last August at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the Ministry for National Security (MNS) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) reject the official version of the reason of his death. They believe that Zeinalov died from torture, and in order to prove that they agree to exhume his remains.

In the afternoon on January 13, nearly a hundred construction workers went out for a rally in central Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, demanding payment of their wages. All the protesters are employees of the Turkish construction company "Penta".

Today, the city of Nalchik has hosted an enlarged sitting of the International Circassian Association (ICA), which adopted an appeal to the leadership of Russia to help in return of 115 Circassians living in Syria to their historic homeland.

About a thousand residents of the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, gathered today to a rally demanding to cancel the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

The upper section of the Belaya River in the dwelling settlement of Guzeripl is studied in search of a landslide, which has created problems in water supply to the village of Kamennomostsky, Maikop District. The works are on since January 12.

Relatives of the victims of mass riots on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan are dissatisfied with the course of the inquiry into the deaths of people on that day; the have stated that they do not trust both the investigators and Co-Rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

The Chechen authorities will pay one million roubles to every family of the law enforcers lost in the special operation undertaken in the Vedeno District. The wounded participants of the operation were promised 300,000 roubles each, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

On January 9, in the Kirov District of the capital of Dagestan, two unidentified persons penetrated into the house of a local resident, born in 1937, and fired several shots from an unidentified firearm. The man was brought to the Trauma Centre of Makhachkala, where he died from his wounds.

In Baku, on January 13, a confrontation occurred of the workers of the Mayoralty with the three families who refused to move out of the house defined for demolition in the area of Flag Square. The families refused to leave the three-storey building and stood as a "human shield" in front of the excavator.

Ilyas Nalgiev, ex-Chief of the Karabulak GOVD (Interior Division), who was wounded in explosion, is in critical condition in resuscitation ward. The attempt on him took place at the night before sentencing of a resonant case of torture, in which Ilyas Nalgiev was a defendant.