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Two small children remained alive in the mass murder of a family, committed in a private house in Stavropol, reports the Chief Investigatory Department (CID) for the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD) of the Investigatory Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation.

Forced resettlers from Abkhazia and South Ossetia have been evicted from several more buildings in Tbilisi. Tomorrow, on January 22, refugees plan to hold a protest march from the parliament to the residence of the president.

Aslan Yandiev, a resident of Ingushetia, who is suspected of terrorist crimes committed in 2005-2006 in the territory of North Ossetia, was detained in Slovakia, arrested. The date of detention was not specified.

The freedom restriction measure of Nail Bikmaev, Imam of the Jami (Cathedral Mosque) of Rostov-on-Don, was changed under the personal security of his father, Mufti of the Rostov Region Dzhafar Bikmaev. This decision was made today at the sitting of the commission in charge of rendering assistance in adaptation to peaceful life to those persons who have decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities, which is headed by Rizvan Kurbanov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Dagestan.

An outbreak of dysentery was registered in the village of Karagani, Privolzhskiy District of the Astrakhan Region; 19 children were hospitalized.

The Ukrainian authorities have satisfied Russia's request to extradite Vyacheslav Ryabtsev, one of the suspects of the murder of 12 persons committed in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, in November 2010. As reported by the official website of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office, now the date of Ryabtsev's extradition to Russia is agreed on.

Investigatory bodies have established involvement of seven persons, including Alexander Tikhomirov (Said Buryatskiy), in blowing up the "Neva-Express" Train in November 2009. All of them were killed in March 2010 in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo. This was reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Russia's Investigatory Committee (IC).

Starting from 3:30 p.m. today, internally displaced persons, who oppose their eviction from their places of residence in Tbilisi, are holding their protest action in front of the Parliament of Georgia.

The custody conditions at the Correction Establishment No. 5 were discussed at a press conference held by Zaza Khatiashvili, Chairman of the Bar Association of Georgia on January 18.

While in 2008, the average bribe in North Ossetia, by the revealed corruption crimes, was 16,000 roubles, in 2009 - 29,000 roubles, in 2010 it reached 70,000 roubles, whereas the average bribe in Russian regions is 27,000 roubles, said Arthur Ahmetkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.

As stated by Asya Gevorkyan, a resident of the Novopokrovskiy District of the Krasnodar Territory, a criminal case about beating is falsified against her father - Gayk Gevorkyan, 50, - while he himself is a victim.

Maria Ameli (real name Madina Salamova), 25, a writer and a native of North Ossetia, does not lose hope, after the decision to deport her has stirred up the Norwegian society, to stay in Norway. Human rights activists and Maria's friends are sure that the trial and deportation decision were acts of retaliation from the authorities for exposure of corruption among bureaucrats in her book "Illegal Norwegian".

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has passed a decision on the complaint of the employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who worked with Natalia Estemirova. The complaint concerned abduction in 2003 in Grozny of a certain Gisaev by Russian militaries. The court has obliged Russia to pay a compensation of 55,000 euros for moral harm to the complainant and 1957 euros to his representatives for rendered legal services.

On January 18, the Parliament of Chechnya considered a bill, which assumes creating the post of Ombudsman on Children's Rights.

As reported by the Investigatory Department (ID) for the Volgograd Region of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation, a criminal case was initiated against Alexander Gorbunov, head of the administration of the Krasnoarmeiskiy District of Volgograd, and his deputy Roman Karatanov, suspected of abuse of office.

Rashid Belmekhov, head of the Forestry Administration of Adygea, has treated the accusation of negligence moved against Madzhit Khatukai, head of the Maikop Forestry, as undeserved attitude and a mistake.

The court session on the lawsuit of the representative of the head of Chechnya Andrei Krasnenkov against the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" on protection of his business reputation, to be held today at the Tver Court of Moscow, did not take place. Mr Krasnenkov asked to postpone the trial.

The inhabitants of the hostel, located in Mayakovsky Settlement, Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny, who are registered in different parts of the republic, did not want to go to the places of their residence, despite all the conditions in place for their return, the city officials assert.

The Office has initiated criminal cases on insults and death threats to Natalia Shelimova, correspondent of the newspaper "Nashe Vremya" (Our Time).

In the course of the rally in Pushkin Square in Moscow in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova assassinated two years ago 21 persons were detained.