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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.

The municipal authorities of Nevinnomyssk and Stavropol did not authorize meetings within the framework of the action initiated by nationalist organizations “Stavropol region is no Caucasus!”. The organizers declared that they would come out all the same.

On January, 24, Caesar Chocheli, ex-Governor of Mtskheta-Tianeti district (Eastern Georgia), was detained for suspicion of financial malpractice, in particular, money laundering, a representative of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia reported. A charge is expected to be officially brought against Chocheli today.

Leader of a paramilitary group (PMG) under the alias of “Pilek” was killed in the mountains of Chechnya during a special operation together with Gakaev brothers, Head of Chechnya declared.

In the evening of January, 24, a car belonging to Ali Pashaev, director of one of the schools, was exploded in Kaitag district of Dagestan. Nobody was injured as a result of the incident, a source in law enforcement bodies reported.

Today the Court of Appeal of Armenia under the chairmanship of judge Avetisyan having considered an appeal of the attorneys of four young oppositional activists against the verdicts of general jurisdiction and the Appellate court decided to return the claim for revision, Press Service of oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) reported.

Today a meeting of representatives of the authorities of South Ossetia with co-chairpersons of Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia from EU, UNO and OSCE was held in Tskhinvali. The agenda of the forthcoming on March, 26-27, 23rd round of negotiations was discussed with the delegation of co-chairpersons of Geneva discussions.

Today one of the candidates for presidency, leader of “National Self-determination” association Paruir Airikyan, is going to join another candidate for presidency, Director of “Radio-Ai” Andreas Gukasyan, who went on a hunger strike earlier.

Today the attorneys of the defendants on the case of the terrorist act committed in “Domodedovo” airport in January of 2011 appealed against prolongation of the term of keeping their clients in custody for three months.

Today an armed group of three men was blocked in one of the houses of Chegem. Later they were killed. They were part of a so-called “South-Western sector” of gunmen, representatives of power ministries state. There was also a woman and under-age children in the house who left the building before the beginning of the storm.

The tenants of a house in the settlement of Ordjonikidzevskoye, Suanzha district of Ingushetia, appealed to President of Russia Vladimir Putin asking to punish the officials through whose fault, in the tenants’ opinion, their dwelling and constitutional rights were violated.

In the evening of January, 23, Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe considered two reports on Azerbaijan.

A man killed in a skirmish with policemen in the settlement of Ingishi was preliminarily identified as Gadjimurad Omarov. According to the investigation’s version, he was one of the two men who on January, 23, opened fire at the personnel of law enforcement bodies near the settlement of Tlyarata, Gumbet district, a representative of Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Dagestan reported.

12 gunmen were killed in a special operation in the mountains of Chechnya, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia informed confirming that brothers Muslim and Hussein Gakaev were identified among those killed. One policeman was killed, too, and seven more got wounded.

In its report European Committee for Prevention of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment expressed concern about the attitude towards detainees and convicts in Northern Caucasus and inefficiency of investigation of cases of cruel treatment.

Alexander Evtukhov, witness on the case of ex-colonel Yuri Budanov’s murder, was provided with state defence, official representative of Committee of Inquiry (CI) of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin informed.

Resident of Nalchik Alim Kaitaev and resident of the settlement of Hasania Ismail Baluev disappeared in Kabardino-Balkaria, their relatives report. They submitted statements about it to law enforcement bodies and human rights activists.

At about 20:00 local time about 150 residents of the town of Ismailly gathered in a group and approached the building of executive authority demanding resignation of Head of the district Nizami Alekperov. The police used sound and flash grenades, rubber clubs and tear gas for dispersal of the action.

In the evening of January, 24, participants of a protest action demanding resignation of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili organized a “human chain” near the President’s palace.

Armenian activist Vaagan Chakhalyan who was sentenced to 10 years of custody in Georgia was released today.