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Today, Sochi held the first trial competition event in preparation for the 2014 Olympics - the official races of the Cup of Russia in Alpine skiing. The competition was attended by about 60 racers.

In Maikop, Hadzhimos Khatsechukov, candidate for the Parliament of Adygea from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, registered at the one-candidate constituency in the Shovgenov District of the republic, was shot dead.

On February 10, the National Assembly of Armenia ratified the agreement signed with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on the first phase of the programme aimed to modernize the Yerevan metro. The bank grants a 15-million-euros loan for the purposes.

Today, in the course of a special operation in Nazran, power agents killed two persons suspected of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs), said a source from law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia.

Passing across the Georgian-Turkish border will be possible without presenting foreign passports; the domestic IDs will be enough. This was announced today at a briefing in Tbilisi by Foreign Ministers of the two countries Grigol Vashadze and Akhmet Davutoglu. Besides, it is planned to open new crossing points.

The independent journalist Oleg Teplischev, who figures as a victim in the case on the attack on journalists during the election of Astrakhan Mayor on October 11, 2009, said that last week he experienced increased pressure on him.

Near the village of Nikolayevka, the Yeisk District of the Krasnodar Territory, rescuers evacuated about 500 fishermen from an ice floe that broke away from the coast of the Azov Sea. No injuries were reported.

The Karabakh-based Public Organization "European Movement of Artsakh" has organized screening of European films for young people to promote studying foreign languages. The action started on February 10 and will last for a month.

The son of the farmer Server Ametov, in whose house in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, in early November 2010, 12 assassinated bodies were found, and the father of the then Ametov's guest - Vladimir Mironenko, Financial Director of the "Aston" Agrarian Holding, expect to recover from the figurant in this case Sergey Tsapok one billion roubles each. The property of Tsapok and his wife has been arrested already.

As stated on February 11 by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, in his annual address to the Parliament of Georgia, in March every Georgian family will get one-time food voucher worth 30 laris (about 16 US dollars).

The rally of nationalists scheduled for February 11 in Manege Square in Moscow was prevented by large forces of police and interior troops of the Russian MIA.

In the evening on February 10, unidentified persons blew up and then shelled an Ural truck carrying a unit of internal troops of the Russian MIA on the highway Kizlyar-Korinovka in Dagestan, a source from law enforcement bodies of the Kizlyar District has reported.

The head of the Astrakhan customs post and two of his subordinates are suspected of abuse of service power and systematic bribe-taking. This was announced today by Vladimir Markin, official spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation.

Mukhazhir Evloev, father of Magomed Evloev, who is considered to be the executor of the terror act at the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport on January 24, asserts that his detained children - Akhmed, 16, and Fatima, 22, - did not know about their brother's plans to commit a terror act. This was reported by Timur Akiev, head of the Ingush office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Alexander Prutsakov, deputy chairman of the Volgodonsk City Duma, who filed late last year a lawsuit against the newspaper "Nashe Vremya" (Our Time) and its own correspondent in Volgodonsk Natalia Shelimova, has lost the litigation. As reported by Vera Yuzhanskaya, editor of the paper, the judge rejected the deputy's claim in full.

Specialists of the Department for Dagestan of the Russian FSB have neutralized an explosive device planted near the mosque in Akushinskiy Street in Makhachkala.

In central Moscow an action took place "We say: no fascism on Russian soil!" The participants laid flowers at the Unknown Soldier's Tomb.

The illegal armed formations (IAFs) in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) count about one thousand members; the number does not go down, because youngsters replenish it, said Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the NCFD, who is taking part in the sitting of the State Council held in the city of Ufa.

Today, at 2 p.m. in front of the Parliament of Georgia, refugees held a rally, where the announced their demands to President Mikhail Saakashvili. The internally displaced persons (IDPs) demand to provide housing for them in areas, where they van find employment.

The organizers and participants of the picket in support of Article 19 of the Russian Constitution in the city of Temryuk, Krasnodar Territory, appealed to the head of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) and regional prosecutor on illegitimate, in their opinion, actions of law enforcers during the action on February 9.