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The explosion was triggered near the customs control at Domodedovo; therefore, according to eyewitnesses, there are many foreign nationals among the victims of the terror act. According to the statement posted on the website of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), the total count of victims went up to 152, 58 of them were hospitalized, and 31 persons died. According to other sources, 35 persons were killed.

Hostels in Grozny are liberated for internally displaced persons (IDPs), who lost their housings during the war in Chechnya and who were provided flats in 2007 in two high apartment buildings in the city of Argun at 111 Kadyrov Street and 9a Titov Street. Human rights activists assert that the authorities are conducting a "chain reaction" of evicting people from flats into hostels, and from hostels into the street.

Elena Kolosova, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, states that employees and bosses of medical institutions have disregarded the rights of the mother and the child and neglected her personal dignity. She appealed to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in connection with the surgery made on her son Yaroslav, as she believes, badly, and with the bad attitude of the medical personnel of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital (RCCH) in Moscow to their patients.

Now, in the aftermath of the visit to Armenia of Thomas Hammarberg, High Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, local human rights activists and politicians expect that his report on the visit will reflect the real situation with human rights in Armenia.

The displacement persons are going to lodge petitions for political asylum to the Embassies of the USA and European countries. This was announced today at a briefing, organized by the "Refugees' Civil Movement" in front of the Parliament of Georgia.

Following the decision of the kingdom's authorities, today the Norwegian police have arrested Madina Salamova, a native of North Ossetia, better known under the pseudonym of Marie Ameli, who will be soon deported to Russia because of problems with her documents.

Today in Sochi about 50 persons came out to hold another protest action against violations of citizens' rights by local authorities.

According to Sergey Kalitsov, Deputy Minister on Property and Land Relations of North Ossetia, the main idea of the ban on sale of land to foreign persons introduced in several regions of Russia is to ensure safety of these territories.

Today, the department of information policy and the press service of Dagestan have spread a statement condemning the utterances of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the LDPR (Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia) and Vice-Speaker of Russian State Duma, on the situation in the country and about nations of Northern Caucasus.

Zulfiya Magomedova, a resident of the village of Shamkhal-Station, Kirov District of Makhachkala, has reported that local law enforcers took away - without any explanations - her two brothers: Abdurakhman and Magomed Gaziev.

Today at night, one person was killed and four others injured in an explosion in the coal mine in Tkibuli (Western Georgia).

Oleg Khintsagov, a Russian citizen and a resident of North Ossetia, has been released after serving his term for uranium contraband. Thanks to the presidential amnesty he spent in custody four years instead of eight.

As stated by Koba Subeliani, Minister for Matters of Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Accommodation of Georgia, the refugees who were evicted on January 20-21 would be able to get their housing in the countryside or monetary compensation. According to other sources, compensations are not paid out now.

As reported by law enforcers, the mass killing on January 21 in one of private houses of Stavropol may have been committed out of revenge or with the aim of robbery.

In 2018, matches of the World Cup will not be held in the cities of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) for security reasons. At the same time, three cities of the Southern Federal District (SFD) want to receive matches: Rostov-on-Don, Sochi and Volgograd.

In the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, where a massacre of 12 persons was committed, exhumation of more than 120 bodies will be undertaken, since they had been buried with violations, and the cause of their death raises questions.

Felling of the alley of 50-year-old plane-trees was launched in Tchaikovsky Street in Sochi at midnight on January 22. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by residents of the neighbourhood who heard noise of falling trees and chain saws.

As a result of the audit of the use of funds allocated from the Russian budget on rendering assistance to Abkhazia, the Audit Chamber (AC) of the Russian Federation revealed violations amounting to the total sum of 346,759,000 roubles. This is stated in the report published by the AC on January 20.

In the Chernozemelskiy District of Kalmykia, law enforcers detained an owner of a private cattle farm, who illegally detained residents of Astrakhan and Stavropol Territory and forced them to work for him.

Three operative agents of the Department of Criminal Search of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of Dagestan were detained during a joint operation of the MIA's own security service and the FSB Department on suspicion of extorting a bribe.