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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.

On January, 19, an action of former residents of Aram, Buizand, Ekmalyan and Saryan streets passed off in Yerevan. The people who lost their flats intend to continue protest actions until the problem is solved.

Today in the morning, about 15,000 residents of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, lost electricity supply, because of air electricity mains broken by tree branches, heavy with snow on them. This was reported by Oksana Levitskaya, the head of the press service of Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Kubanenergo".

Amerkhan Ozdoev, who is taking his treatment at the trauma department of the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Ingushetia, said that on January 17 power agents broke his leg while trying to move Ilez Nalgiev, the former head of the criminal police of Karabulak, to the hospital ward for prisoners.

Vera Drobinskaya, a resident of the city of Astrakhan, who is taking care of disabled children from the Raznochinovskiy orphanage, reports about an illegal attempt to deprive her of all her pupils. According to Alla Vasilieva, Deputy Minister of Social Development and Labour of the Astrakhan Region, officials decided to temporary exempt Drobinskaya of her guardian's duty. while an application on her cruel treatment of the kids is being checked.

As reported by the Investigatory Committee for the Krasnodar Territory, the chief physician of the Hygiene and Epidemiology Centre of the Krasnodar Territory is suspected of extorting a bribe from his subordinate, whom he had forced, according to investigators, to pay him monthly for unobstructed work.

A magistrate judge was brought right from home to the police station to try Irina Kolesnikova, the organizer of the action named "Picket-19" in Krasnodar.

The Republic's Children's Hospital (RCH) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) was inspected by the local Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in the context of the eight deaths of newborns that occurred in the hospital in the first decade of January. According to specialists of the Ministry, the doctors had acted properly.

This inadmissibility was emphasized in the course of the press conference "Democracy and Nazism are Incompatible", dedicated to the third anniversary of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. The event was held in Moscow, at the Independent Media Centre.

The experts who conducted a repeated examination of the pistol, with which Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", was killed, have found a woman's DNA traces, said Murad Musaev, the advocate of Rustam Makhmudov, who is considered by investigators to be the gunman.

Ruslan Evkurov, a distant relative of the leader of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who is accused of committing a fraud against residents of the village Dolakovo, is seeking money to pay off his debts to villagers. He also demands that a family from Plievo give 3 million roubles back to him. Should he fail to pay his debts, he may face not probation but a real imprisonment.

An action of protest against the Labour Code of Georgia was held in the center of Tbilisi on the initiative of students' organization "Laboratory 1918".

On January, 18, an incident with fatal outcome occurred in one of the military units of Azerbaijani army.

According to more precise data, a native of Stavropol region and a citizen of Uzbekistan were detained on January, 18, near "Domodedovo" airport of Moscow after one of them declared that he was going to commit an explosion. This was reported by Press service of Chief Transport Directorate of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Central Federal Okrug.

Yesterday, January, 18, a monumental complex in memory of the servicemen of "Baksan" inter-district Department of Interior Affairs who perished as a result of assaults of participants of paramilitary groups in the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria was opened in the town of Baksan.

Deputy of the People's Assembly Mariam Amrieva was put in a nomination as leader of "United Russia" fraction in the Parliament of the republic.

In Dagestan, an ordinary meeting of students of one of the departments of the Dagestan State Institute of National Economy (DSINE) has turned into an agitation against participation in the protest rallies that take place in the republic.

During the last week of January 9-15, at least 22 persons were killed and other 36 were wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has allocated to Azerbaijan 5,914,932 US dollars for programmes for persons seeking asylum, for material assistance to persons without citizenship, to internally displaced persons (IDPs), and for integration programme.

Special measures to find members of the illegal armed formations in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia and Chechnya have been completed, and no militants were found.