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Local residents detained during disturbances in the town of Ismailly, Azerbaijan, underwent beating in the police, townsmen Turalu Umudly and Rahim Faktiev declared. The Ministry of Interior Affairs denies the information of using violence against the detainees.

The decision of Shirvan Appellate Court bringing a standing judgement on the verdict of guilty to Ilham Amirsalanov, activist of the staff of “Kura” civil movement, will be appealed against to the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan, lawyer Samir Isaev declared.

Law enforcement bodies detained 141 persons who participated in an action of protest under a common slogan: “Stavropol region is no Caucasus” in Nevinnomyssk, 18 underage among them, Yuri Altynov, Deputy Chief of the Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Stavropol region, reported.

Last night, January, 27, a local resident who worked as a waitress in a café in Buinaksk was shot down, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports.

This morning lieutenant colonel of police Anatoly Bukin who was shot at by an unidentified person died in the resuscitation unit of Nalchik.

European Court of Human Rights took cognizance of the claim submitted by lawyers Tatiana Okushko and Musa Pliev who participated in the case of blasting “Nevsky express” train concerning torture on the defendants during investigation.

“Sberbank of Russia” assumed responsibility for payment of insurance compensation to the depositors of “Express” bank of Dagestan that went bankrupt, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent was told in the Endowment insurance agency.

Today Ramazan Abdulatipov acting as Head of the republic since recently declared that he intended to fight against corruption, unemployment and solve the problem of security in Dagestan.

This morning two families, six persons all in all, who were evacuated from Syria at night of January, 23, arrived from Moscow to Nalchik by train, Anzor Kurashinov, Head of the Department of the affairs of repatriates of the Ministry of mass media, non-governmental and religious organizations of Kabardino-Balkaria, reported.

Today candidates for presidency of Armenia Grant Bagratyan, Raffi Ovannisyan and Paruir Airikyan issued a statement demanding from the authorities to produce the register of electors who left the country in order to avoid the use of their votes at the election of Head of the state.

Georgian oppositional party “United National Movement” refused to take part in public hearings devoted to consideration of amendments to the Constitution initiated by coalition the “Georgian Dream”.

On January, 25, residents of the Armenian settlement of Megradzor dissatisfied with construction of gold ore processing workshop in the territory of the settlement held an action of protest near the President’s residence in Yerevan.

SOCAR state oil company of Azerbaijan prolonged the term of a contract on development of condensate deposit “Shakh-Deniz” till 2036, Vice-president of SOCAR Elshad Nasirov informed.

On January, 25, the court in Vladikavkaz prolonged anaesthetist Marat Gunashev’s custody term till April, 27, the detainee’s attorney Zaur Magomedov informed.

Two explosions happened in the town of Derbent, Dagestan: one under a car and the other at the entrance of a dwelling house. No one got injured.

On January, 26, about 700 Cossacks held a meeting in Rostov park named after Sobino demanding to acknowledge them a nation. Representatives of Don and Terek Cossacks took part in the action.

Today actions of protest organized by an unregistered party “New Force” under a joint slogan “Stavropol region is no Caucasus” whose participants demanded separation of Stavropol region from North-Caucasian Federal Okrug and toughening migration regime there concerning natives of North-Caucasian republics and the countries of Central Asia passed off in a number of towns of Russia.

The drivers of minibuses in Tbilisi decided to suspend transportation causing problems with passenger traffic for the transport network in the capital of Georgia.

A confrontation between participants of an unauthorized protest action in support of residents of Ismailly and the police in the centre of Baku resulted in mass detentions of the participants. The names of 41 detainees are known.

On January, 24, the day of an anniversary of a decree of Organizational Bureau of RCP (b) (Russian Communist party of Bolsheviks) “On decossackization” the Cossacks sent a message to the President with a demand to acknowledge them a nation.