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In 2011, the "Dagestani Airlines" Company plans to upgrade the fleet of aircrafts by replacing its obsolete Tu-154 aircrafts for modern models, said Deputy Director General Gadjikhan Keramaliev.

Lithuania, which will chair the OSCE in 2011, plans to revive the solution process of frozen conflicts, including those in Transcaucasia, said Audronius Ažubalis, Foreign Minister of Lithuania.

Amendments have been made in the Georgian Code of Administrative Offences, offered by the Government of Adzharia, which stipulate fines for livestock appearance on the beaches and in other places visited by tourists.

In the Zoo of Stavropol, which is situated in the Victory Park, this morning a bear has bit a human to death, said Boris Skripka, head of the Civil Defence and Emergency Department of the Administration of Stavropol.

In the city of Nalchik, unidentified criminals planted a bomb into the building of the entertainment club named "Sahara". No injuries were reported.

In the capital of Armenia, within the second half of 2010, 150 trees were cut down. This was reported to journalists by Arthur Aftandilyan, spokesman of the initiative group "We are City Managers".

Tea Tadashvili, Judge of the Tbilisi City Court, has fined 11 participants of the protest action of war veterans who were detained on charges of rendering resistance to policemen. Each of them was administratively fined by 400 laris (about 230 US dollars).

Adam Khamkhoev, a resident of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, who was kidnapped on December 30 together with the other two young persons - Pliev brothers - was released on January 3. His father Musa Khamkhoev asks the republic's public prosecutor to investigate the case, claiming that his son was tortured by power agents.

The House of Culture of the Erebuni community is housing a selling exhibition of works performed by fifty prisoners serving their sentences in penal institutions in Armenia. The event was organized by the Fund of Assistance to Convicts at the Ministry of Justice.

The persons liquidated during the special operation in Shamkhal village, Kirov District of Makhachkala, have been identified. They are Badrudi Rasulov and Maksud Ismailov, suspected of attempts on law enforcers.

Giorgi Chkoidze aged 12 was shot down from a shotgun on the balcony of his house in Tbilisi. The man who had shot, the boy's neighbour, yielded to the police on his own accord.

Unidentified people threw two hand grenades into a militia duty group guarding the New Year tree in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia.

This morning an explosive device was activated in Vladikavkaz, in a car with Deputy Chief of the headquarters of a military unit dislocated in Ingushetia inside it. The officer was taken to hospital with grave wounding, Alla Akhpolova, Manager of Press service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of North Osetia, reported.

The personality of one of the four participants of armed underground whose remains were found on the New Year's Eve in the mountains of Chechnya has been identified. This is a twenty-two-year-old native of the district center of Vedeno. law enforcement bodies are continuing an inspection on the fact.

Seven veterans of war arrested during an action of protest in Tbilisi have by the moment been taken to the building of the Municipal Court where they are waiting for the beginning of a trial, lawyer Gela Nikolaishvili told a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

The parade of Russian Fathers Frost and German Santa Clauses, first held in Volgograd, brought together about three hundred participants.

Elkhan Shakhinoglu, head of the Research Centre "Atlas", has treated the fact of appointment of the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, after the post was vacant for 18 months, as a positive fact for bilateral relations. However, as he said, it does not mean that all the problems between the two countries will be solved.

On December 29, the Government of Armenia signed an agreement with the Company "AiPost", under which pensions will be paid out at post offices. This caused discontent among hundreds of employees of the Pension Fund, who lost their jobs as a result of such arrangements.

In Tbilisi, the Police of Georgia has used force to disperse the protest action of war veterans. Several persons were detained.

In the settlement of Nardaran, about 2500 signatures were collected under the petition to the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev with a request to lift the ban on wearing hijabs in schools.