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The former South-Ossetian president's representative in the parliament Tarzan Kokoity has refused to run for the presidency. Today, Mr Kokoity has addressed the Central Election Commission (CEC) with his appropriate statement, said the local CEC.

On February 25, the city of Vladikavkaz saw the premiere of the movie "August. The Eighth", a story about the conflict in South Ossetia in 2008. After the screening, the film director Djanik Faiziev, actors and members of the filming crew addressed the audience.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Stavropol Territory has returned 19 land plots back to the forest fund of Stavropol; now, about 400,000 trees will be planted there. According to the Office, the administration of the city had illegally granted the plots to individuals and legal entities.

A terminal, by means of which people can send a verbal or written communication to the President of the Russian Federation in electronic form, was launched in Sochi. The new service is available from February 22.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Chechen Republic denies reports of disproportionate use of force at dispersal in Grozny of the rally of builders who had worked for Turkish construction companies.

Today in Grozny, near the central mosque, women and men, who had worked for the Turkish construction companies "Penta" and "Bora Inshaat" and who were not paid their wages, held a rally with a demand to the authorities to address their problems. In total, by different estimates, from 250 to 400 people took part in the action.

A six-year-old child was hospitalized unconscious into the intensive care unit of the Kotovo District of the Volgograd Region. The woman-educator of the family group is suspected for committing the crime, who, according to investigators, beat the child for his taking candies without a permit.

Alla Djioeva, an ex-presidential candidate in South Ossetia, remains under guard in hospital of Tskhinvali. According to her story, she would not seek political asylum outside South Ossetia and Russia. Her supporters also report that she has failed to get at the hospital a copy of the official conclusion of the forensic examination on the fact of her bodily injuries.

Experts have exhumed the bodies of six infants who died in the Republic's Children Clinical Hospital in Nalchik, said the spokesman for the Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the ICRF.

Starting from today, because of poor health state of the hunger-strikers in the city of Lermontov, doctors will examine them three times a day. The protesters do not rule out that the prosecutor's office could tell that they were taking food by mistake. Today the number of the participants of the action has increased from 10 to 12 persons.

Today, approximately 50 shareholders of the construction Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) "Kyamran", "Fuad" and "Gen" held a protest in front of the presidential administration of Azerbaijan. The police pushed the demonstrators away from the building.

Today, Volgograd hosted a picket on availability and quality of preschool education. The protesters demanded to increase funding for the network of kindergartens; and in the existing ones – to increase funds per capita and educators' salaries. Natalia Latyshevskaya, a Deputy of the Volgograd Regional Duma, told the audience that the authorities were preparing a bill on compensations to those parents who cannot place their children in kindergarten.

The workers of the Volgograd Ship-Building Factory (known as "VgSZ") do not want to go to the presidential election on March 4 and ask to delete them from voters' lists. This is stated in the open letter to the workers, which was signed by 63 persons.

A scandal burst out at filming the programme "Freedom and Justice" on "Channel One" of the Russian television. This is asserted by the participants invited from Sochi. The programme was on preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics; however, Natalia Kalinovskaya, the chair of the Sochi Territorial Self-Government Body (TOS) "Psou", could not get into the channel studio, although she arrived in Moscow at the invitation and expense of the programme.

Armenian singers declared that they refused to take part in “Eurovision-2012” song contest in the capital of Azerbaijan in connection with “anti-Armenian policy” this state pursued.

A serviceman of statutory service of Armenian Armed Forces perished on February, 23, as a result of sniper’s fire from Azerbaijani territory, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia reported.

Psychological testing of top managers started in the Administration of Volgograd region. The purpose of the campaign is to analyze professional, business and personal qualities of the employees of the Administration of the region with the help of psychological tests.

Part of the management of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan sticks to an erroneous point of view considering a peaceful dialogue with members of paramilitary groups wishing to lay down arms “none of their business”, Rizvan Kurbanov, Head of Committee for adaptation of gunmen in Dagestan, Deputy Chairman of Committee for constitutional legislation and state development of State Duma of the Russian Federation, said in an exclusive interview for the “Caucasian Knot”.

The hospital aimed to rehabilitate the pelicans, which stay in the Makhachkala Bay was opened in the territory of the repair shipyard.

The elections to the National Assembly of Armenia of the fifth convocation will be held on May 6, 2012.