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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.

Everton, the ex-forwarder of the Grozny "Terek" FC, said that during his stay in the team, their coach could afford to hit the players in the faces. The FC stated that they knew nothing about acts of violence.

The Constitutional Commission of the French Senate opposed the draft law criminalizing denial of Armenian genocide.

Relatives of Zurab Batyrbekov, the disappeared resident of Makhachkala, who was eventually found at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the city, reported on the continuing pressure on the family by law enforcement agencies.

Today, photographer Etimad Budagov and video operator Rashad Aliev were detained while performing their professional duties during a protest action held by defrauded housing shareholders in front of the administration of President of Azerbaijan. Their photo and video materials were seized.

Mothers in Kabardino-Balkaria whose sons were killed on October, 13, 2005, or are in the dock on the case of the attack at Nalchik created a Committee "Mothers of Kabardino-Balkaria in Defense of the Citizen's Rights and Freedoms".

The authorities of Pyatigorsk ignore destruction of a unique natural memorial, the Mashuk mountain. This was a statement of the activists of regional youth environmental movement "Sunny Patrol". They sent a round robin to Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in South-Caucasian Federal Okrug (SCFO), asking him to pay attention to construction on this mountain.

A twenty-four-years old resident of Makhachkala Zurab Batyrbekov who had been considered missing was found in one of the investigative isolation wards of the town. The detainee's attorney reports that he is suspected of participation in paramilitary groups.

In Armenia, on January 15, the initiative groups "Let's save Trchkan Waterfalls" and the "Tegut Protection Group" organized information and ecological campaign to the Lori Region.

On January 16, a group of Baku private taxi drivers held a protest action near the building of the Ministry of Transport of Azerbaijan. They were protesting against the Ministry's intentions to ban the use of private cars, whose drivers were not licensed to render service to the population.