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In the Rostov Region, the public organization "Rostov without Drugs" is undertaking the action "With Faith for the Best", during which homeless people are given meals and New Year gifts.

The Chechen capital plan to build a synagogue; the ceremony of laying the foundation stone is scheduled for January 9. The site is in the place of the Ashkenazi synagogue that existed in the early 20th century.

On January 2, on the bottom of the Volga River, in the area of the central embankment of Volgograd, rescuers found a bone of a prehistoric animal, presumably a mammoth.

The website of electronic referenda "Democrator" began collecting signatures to the demand to allow girls from Muslim families to wear hijabs in schools.

As reported by the spokesman of the local FSB, Dinislam Karakotov, who has shelled the police building in the Malokarachay District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), had shot two locals before he was killed.

The spokesman of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated that on January 1 and 2 the Armenian Armed Forces broke the ceasefire.

The National Library will be opened in the Chechen capital in the near future, the administration of Grozny reports.

This morning, in Sochi, in the park area of Tchaikovsky Street, unidentified persons cut down six fifty-year-old cedars, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by eyewitnesses.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), a man who shelled the police station in the Malokarachay District of Karachay-Cherkessia and who was then killed was identified as Dinislam Karakotov, a member of the armed underground. This was reported by Kazim Baibanov, a MIA's representative.

Residents of the city of Derbent, affected by flooding of October 2012, are still in need of psychological support and financial aid. This was reported by Luiza Dibirova, the head of the Dagestani branch of the volunteer organization "Grazhdansky Korpus" (Citizens' Corps).

Today, Adygea marks the Memory Day of soldiers who died in local conflicts. The capital of the republic has hosted the mourning rally that was attended by veterans of the 131st Motorized Rifle Brigade, relatives and friends of the victims, representatives of the authorities, Cossacks and the clergy.

The Stepanakert Airport will start its first technical flights in early 2013. This was reported by Ara Arutyunyan, Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Chechnya continues to celebrate the New Year holidays. Places of cultural events and folk festivals are guarded by the police day and night.

Levon Aronyan, a chess player from Armenia, is the third in the rating list published on January 1 by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

The Oktyabrsky District of Grozny, the Chechen capital, opened the 12th block, where large-scale reconstruction works were carried out since October 2012. During 2.5 months, more than 200 private houses were built there; and communication lines were laid.

In Magas, the capital of Ingushetia, the New Year celebrations gathered thousands of residents. The festivities passed under reinforced security measures and without incidents. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source in the law enforcement bodies of the republic.

Five residents of Maikop conducted a series of solo pickets in support of demand of emergency evacuation of Syrian Circassians.

Bidzina Ivanishvili, Prime Minister of Georgia, announced the termination of persecution of supporters of President Mikhail Saakashvili.

Families of Georgian peacekeepers killed in Afghanistan in the line of duty will receive lifetime pensions. This was stated by President Mikhail Saakashvili during his meeting with soldiers of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent, held in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan on January 1.

On December, 31, 2012, Bacho Dolidze, Press Speaker of Mayor’s office of Tbilisi, was summoned for interrogation to Isani-Samgor district police department. He was interrogated about the oppositional action in May of 2011 in Tbilisi and the offers made to the participants of the meeting by Bacho Akhalaya, Minister of Interior Affairs of that time.