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25 schools in Volgograd region have been completely closed up to provide preventive measures because of a threat of diffusion of flu and acute respiratory virus disease, officials of the Regional Committee of Education reported.

In Tbilisi, in front of the Ministry for Refugees' Matters, forced resettlers have held an action with a demand to suspense the eviction process.

Workers of Mindeli Mine, located in the city of Tkibuli, went on strike in protest against the arrest by the Prosecutor's Office of two mangers on their suspected guilt of the explosion in the mine, which happened on January 22.

Azerbaijani government refuses to send an invitation to come to the country to Deputy Kristof Strasser, Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on political prisoners in Azerbaijan. Mr Strasser told about it himself at the meeting in Strasbourg of activists of civil society of Azerbaijan.

Today, about 2000 persons came to Pushkin Square in Moscow to commemorate those who perished in the terror act in Domodedovo on January 24.

The investigating-operative group is studying several versions of the terror act committed in Domodedovo Airport in Moscow; two main of them are directly connected with Northern Caucasus, a source from law enforcement bodies said.

As reported by the Investigatory Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation, the last grave crime out of those committed in recent years in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, where in early November 2010 twelve persons were massacred, has been solved.

Today, the Warsaw Court of Appeal has upheld, taking into consideration the absence of Akhmed Zakaev, former head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, in Poland, the decision of the first instance court about impossibility to consider his extradition to Russia.

The picket "Against the lawlessness, perpetrated by authorities of the Republic of South Ossetia against the Russian citizens temporarily residing and engaged in reconstruction works in the territory of South Ossetia" is held today near the monument to Griboyedov in Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow.

Margret Satterwaite, a UN expert in Russia, a citizen of Great Britain, said in her comments on the terror act at the Domodedovo Airport and subsequent statements of the authorities of Russia that it is necessary to establish the source of terror threats instead of rushing into panic and make cadre reshuffling in law enforcement bodies post factum.

According to one of the versions, the terror act near the cafe in Khasavyurt could be committed by those gangsters, who collect "tribute" from the local businessmen, engaged in selling alcoholic beverages. According to a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan, from the beginning of the year it is already the fourth explosion of a public catering entity in Khasavyurt, whose bosses refused to pay to extortioners.

Adam Guseinov, 32, the so-called "Deputy Amir" of Dagestan and the second man in the hierarchy of Dagestani bandit underground, and his common-law wife were shot dead at rendering armed resistance in a special operation in Khasavyurt, the operative headquarters of the Russia's National Counterterrorist Committee (NAC) for Dagestan reports.

A group of officers of STSI who according to the investigation's version had been extorting money from their subordinates was detained in Volgograd. Criminal proceedings were started on January, 26, according to three points of clause 290 of the Criminal code "Bribe-taking by an organized group on a large scale with the use of extortion".

Multiple facts of extorting money from passengers arriving from Central Asia have been discovered among the personnel of Line Department of Interior Affairs (LDIA) of "Domodedovo" airport, Tatiana Morozova, official representative of Moscow Inter-regional Transit Investigative department of Prosecutor's committee of inquiry, reported.

On January, 26, one child perished and two more got severe burns and traumas as a result of domestic gas explosion in Grozny district. This has been already the third case of this kind in the territory of the republic for the last week.

The power of the explosion that took place in the evening of January, 26, in the town of Khasavyurt (Dagestan) by preliminary estimation of the experts made 30 kilogram trotyl equivalent. The explosion is qualified as an act of terror.

Vitaly Ivanov, a member of the so-called "Sergey Tsapok's gang", who is not accused of murdering 12 persons in the village of Kuschevskaya, but is a figurant in other murder cases, attempted to commit suicide in Novorossiysk SIZO (pre-trial prison).

A criminal case has been opened against the head of the license-and-permit division of the Nalchik UVD (Interior Department), where a self-defence gun license had been granted to Aslan Cherkesov, accused of murdering "Spartak" fan Yegor Sviridov in Moscow.

The utterances of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), about the nations of Northern Caucasus, pronounced on January 20, in Vladimir Solovyov's programme "Poyedinok" (Duel) on "Rossiya-1" National TV Channel, caused an extraordinary sitting of the Council of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia.

On January 25 the European Parliament held a sitting of the Human Rights Commission. The MPs discussed the situation in Northern Caucasus. Heidi Hautala, Chair of the Human Rights Subcommittee, drew attention to kidnappings and torture of citizens of Ingushetia.