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The City Court of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory, has passed a verdict of guilty to a district militiaman of the local OVD (Interior Division), who tried to improve his performance indicators by planting drugs on citizens and then "finding" them.

On Monday, February 7, a 56-year-old local resident died in the Astrakhan Regional Infectious Hospital from complications caused by A/H1N1 influenza virus (swine flu).

As reported by the press service of the regional FSB department, on Monday, February 7, Lieutenant Colonel Khanahmed Yarakhmedov, deputy head of Penal Colony No. 2 of the Russian Federal Penal Service (known as "UFSIN"), was detained, when receiving a bribe of 80,000 roubles.

On February 8, Makhachkala hosted a rally of residents of the village of Khrakh-Uba (Khrakhoba), which is part of the village soviet Novoaulskiy, Magaramkent District of Dagestan, but is located inside the Khachmaz District of Azerbaijan. The protesters - about 300 persons - demanded to protect villagers' rights.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has upheld the sentence passed by the court of the Kusar District to Usman Garisov, a resident of Dagestan on charges of contraband and drug use. He was sentenced to four years in prison.

The Presnya Court of Moscow has extended till May 11 the custody of the two persons accused of murdering Yuri Volkov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club.

The investigation has established the supposed killer of four children during the massacre of the family of farmer Ametov and his friends from Rostov-on-Don in the village of Kuschevskaya.

Experts have found attributes of incitement to ethnic hatred in the video appeal of Ramazan Utarbiev, who is searched on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the Moscow football fan Yegor Sviridov, reports a source close to the investigation.

According to latest data, this morning in downtown Grozny, a gas cylinder blew up in one of the shopping kiosks situated near the bus stop, leading to the "Minutka" Square. The saleswoman who worked in the kiosk was slightly injured. The version of a terror act is completely rejected by the Chechen law enforcement bodies.

Stratfor Analytic center integrating the veterans of CIA has issued an analytical note in which it did not rule out that Dokku Umarov, one of the gunmen's leaders, had taken the responsibility for terror in Domodedovo in order to raise his rating among the members of armed underground.

According to several eyewitnesses of the incident, at night of February, 7, in Lenin district of Grozny two young men were beaten up and taken to an unknown place by members of the top brass. Law enforcement bodies avoid providing any comments on the matter.

As a result of another blast that happened in the evening in the Oktiabrskiy District of the Chechen capital, three OMON (special-purpose militia) fighters were wounded. In total, three explosions that occurred in Grozny within 24 hours wounded five persons.

A brother and sister of Magomed Yevloev, direct executor of the explosion, have been arrested for suspicion of preparing the act of terror, one of the participants of a closed session of the State Duma held on February, 8, with the participation of leaders of power ministries of the Russian Federation said.

On February 7, the House of Government of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), held a sitting of the Public Chamber of the KBR, which discussed the role of public in the fight against terrorism. The members of the Chamber shared their views on the reasons of the current socio-political situation and offered various measures on how to improve it.

The Court of the Sredneakhtubinskiy District of the Volgograd Region found Alexander Shtokolov, former district prosecutor, guilty of a fraud attempt. According to investigators, he had promised to help a local entrepreneur to acquire land plots for a bribe of over 4 million roubles.

Dzhabbar Savalan, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), arrested by the Sumgait City Court, had confessed under police pressure, his advocate Asabali Mustafaev said.

This non-governmental organization (NGO) believes that the main problem in the sphere of human rights defence in Georgia relates to custody conditions in prisons. Its activists assert it in their report for 2010.

In recent years, Georgians have changed their attitude to the Russian language. This is a result of the Russo-phobia, which, after the events in South Ossetia in 2008, was on stable rise, says Alexander Rusetsky, head of the South-Caucasian Institute of Regional Safety.

The authorities of the Stavropol Territory say that the territorial law, which introduced a sort of "curfew" for children, is OK; and a system of measures was designed to promote it. Opponents of the law believe that it restricts human rights and indicate to the high corruption component that hampers to enforce it.

On February 23, Stockholm will host a rally of Chechen (Vainakh) refugees, organized by the Swedish-Chechen Committee (Johan Lagerfelt) and dedicated to the 67th anniversary of deportation of Chechens and Ingushes. According to the organizers, they were pushed to hold the action by the recent situation, associated with the attitude in Scandinavian countries to refugees from Chechnya.