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Twelve non-governmental organizations of Georgia have signed a joint statement with a demand that the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Prosecutor General's of Georgia should carry out an impartial investigation of dispersal of the veterans’ action in Tbilisi.

According to the spokesman of the Chechen Ministry of Labour, in 2011 the emphasis in the fight on unemployment will be placed on development of small businesses.

The People's Party, its supporters, as well as many of the viewers of the TV Channel "ALM", will continue their struggle for justice. This was stated by Tigran Karapetyan, leader of the People's Party and the owner of the "ALM", at a rally in Yerevan, where about one thousand persons gathered.

Valery Suchkov, a member of the Sochi City Planning Council and an active public figure, was hospitalized with traumas. He was told that he was hit by a car. Suchkov himself believes that he was a victim of an intentional attack.

The Russian officer Sergey Grachov, an employee at the Gabala Radar Station in Azerbaijan, was killed by his co-workers at night on January 1, after celebration of the New Year. His apartment was robbed, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan.

Excessively high accommodation rates of hotels, rest and guest houses of Armenia make the country unattractive for winter holidays. The "Caucasian Knot" learnt about it from the interpreter-guide Ovanes Karapetyan.

In 2010, Kabardino-Balkaria saw a marked splash of activities of the armed underground.

Preparation for the holiday was darkened by firing upon an Orthodox church in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya from a grenade launcher. None of the congregation or churchmen was injured.

In 2010, 1,8 billion rubles out of gratuitous financial aid from Russia for social and economic development were drawn in Abkhazia. Vested remainder for 2011 is equal to 1,2 billion rubles.

Military police of the town of Tavush, Armenia, is investigating an incident in one of the military units of Ijevan during which, according to two residents of Tavush district, the commander of the unit beat them up.

An unemployed resident of the Naur District of Chechnya and a militia officer, who served as an on duty officer of the temporary detention facility (known as "IVS") of the local ROVD (District Interior Division) are suspected of a large-scale fraud with the so-called "combat" payments, which amounted to 900,000 roubles. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the republic's law enforcement agencies that a criminal case was initiated against them.

The past 2010 was marked by many resonant trials, where natives of Southern Russia and the Caucasus were figurants; a full stop was put in many of them. Some of these trials were held abroad and acquired great public resonance because notable political figures were involved. Most often it concerned one of the regions of Russia - the Chechen Republic, which is still under close scrutiny of human rights defenders. Also, last year was marked by passing final decision on cases of Moscow-based groupings, which had been killing people of non-Slavic nationalities, by trials started in Northern Caucasus on murders of prominent people, as well as by further consideration in Kabardino-Balkaria case of the case dealing with attack on Nalchik in 2005.

As reported by the Police Division of the Gabala District, a Russian office - Major Sergey Grachov, 47, an employee of the Gabala Radar Station, was killed.

The Russia's "Siberia" Airlines were granted a permit from the "Rosaviatsiya" (Federal Air Transportation Agency) to go on with Moscow-Tbilisi direct charter flights till the end of March 2011. This was announced on January 5 by Paata Kamarauli, the Airlines' representative in Georgia.

As reported by Senor Asratyan, press secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh, the information of their Azerbaijani counterpart that the Karabakh armed forces had broken the ceasefire and wounded an Azerbaijani soldier is not true.

So far, the Azerbaijani authorities have not paid the compensation of 25,000 euros awarded by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to imprisoned journalist Einullah Fatullaev. Despite cancellation of the journalist's two previous 2007 convictions, the demand of the ECtHR to release him from custody is still ignored; the journalist remains in jail on new charges, which he finds fabricated.

Enforcement agencies of Chechnya have no information of Zeinat Suiunova, native of the republic, detained on January, 5, in Volgograd for suspicion of involvement in preparing an act of terror in Moscow.

Vitaly Gordeev, Director of Federal state educational institution of secondary professional education "Agricultural technical secondary school of Anapa", is suspected of abuse of authority and damnification to the school to a sum of over 13 million rubles.

The Investigatory Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia has detained four persons, including Rostom Tsertsvadze, deputy director general of the "Rustavgaz" Company, on suspicion of concealment of a large amount of taxes.

Four out of 14 sporting objects built for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi will be moved to other cities, two will be re-profiled and eight will retain their functionality and, along with new transportation and engineering facilities, are intended to transform Sochi into a world-class resort.