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Head of the Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov is ready to meet the rebels' parents who have turned to him asking for a meeting. Mr Kanokov told about it on February 7 at a sitting of the Public Chamber of the Republic.

Two Chechen militiamen, who, according to the investigation, threatened a waitress with firearms and resisted detention, were put in custody in the Rostov Region.

Native of Dagestan Ramazan Utarbiev who is in search as one of the participants of the mass scuffle in which Egor Sviridov, fan of the Moscow "Spartak", was killed issued a video message where he said he was ready to "surrender to the authorities" if he received guarantees of "fairness, justice and impartial investigation".

Responsibility for organizing the act of terror which carried away 36 lives with the use of a suicide bomber in the Moscow airport "Domodedovo" on January, 24, was taken by Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian gunmen.

Three militia officers got injured as a result of an explosion of an unidentified explosive device on the way of a militia car's following in Makhachkala.

On February, 7, an icicle fell down from the roof of a five-storey dwelling house upon a fifty-year-old woman. The retiree died on-site before the rescuers and the ambulance arrived.

In the village of Baratauli, Georgian rescuers found alive the man considered as missing due to landslides in Adzharia.

In the city of Masally in Southern Azerbaijan, the rescue and search operation is completed in the venue of the explosion in the building of the district telecommunications node. Bodies of two casualties - Kishvyar Shakhverdieva, 55, an employee of the telecommunication node, and Asim Aliev, 28, head of the technical division of the enterprise, - were extracted from under the ruins.

Under the mandate of a personal envoy of the OSCE Chairman, the next OSCE monitoring in the contact line of the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh will be held on February 8 near the village of Chemenli, Agdam District, says the press service of the Defence Ministry of Azerbaijan. According to its data, on February 6 and 7, the ceasefire regime was broken on different directions.

Another protest action, organized by refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, starts in front of the Parliament of Georgia.

The Trunovsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced the female paediatrician, who made a wrong diagnosis to a girl of three, who died because of that, to one year of settlement colony, Gennady Sobolev, public prosecutor of the Trunovsky District, said today.

As reported by bosses of the mine "Zamchalovskaya", located in settlement Almazny near the city of Gukovo, Rostov Region, a miner has perished at work. The local prosecutor's office is supervising the check of the fact of death.

Indeed, remains of Magomed Evloev, a resident of Ingushetia, were found in the place of the terror act at the "Domodedovo"; however, the investigation has no sufficient grounds to believe that Evloev was the suicide bomber, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia.

As stated by the above bodies, most of them were children of migrants from Central Asian countries.

On February 7, the court of general jurisdiction of the Yerevan communities Centre and Nork-Marash, chaired by Judge Karine Petrosyan, partially satisfied the suit of three Armenian MPs against the newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" claiming compensation for publication of untrue information.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", which had repeatedly received signals of gross violations of human rights by employees of the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Republic of Dagestan, has appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Dagestan and Ombudsman of the Republic of Dagestan with a request to check all the allegations of possible crimes committed against citizens.

The Greek ship owner company has promised the relatives of the sailors captured by Somali pirates that the men would be released at the end of February.

A note from an organization "Black Hawks - Anti-Wahabits" was found in Nalchik, near the house where the family of Astemir Mamishev who is in federal search for suspicion of involvement in a number of high-sounding murders in Kabardino-Balkaria lives.

Gas explosion took place in the territory of one of the oil fields in the capital of Azerbaijan. A man got injured as a result and died in hospital later on.

Today is exactly 11 years after Russian power agents conducted a special operation in the village of Novye Aldy, Chechnya, where at least 56 civilians were murdered.