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On February 5, activists of Georgian oppositional parties held a march of protest with a demand to release political prisoners. They stuck posters to the wall of buildings in the Rustaveli Avenue with photos of political prisoners.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, the first in the region's history feature film about the Karabakh War - "House which Shot" - was made. It is planned that it will launch the cycle of feature films based on real facts.

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has defined the winner of the tender, held on designing, building and further development of the Zoological Park, intended to house endangered animal species. The German-Turkish company will build a zoo in the territory of more than 200 hectares.

Four persons, including two children, suffered in Batumi, when two floors of the 14-storey building, which is in construction, cracked down at night on February 4.

When the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) mission was in Sochi, Red Book trees were still cut down along the joint road Adler-Krasnaya Polyana. This is stated by the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus.

The phthisiology service in Karachai-Circassia is in a pitiable condition. It is recognized by Khusei Kurdanov, Minister of Public Health. He marks that conditions in the republic's TB clinic are below all sanitary standards.

All the building and communication works for commissioning of the cottage settlement of 507 houses in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia for resettled residents of the landslide zones will be over this month and the houses will be turn-key ready, said President Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

The Human Rights Centre of the World Russian People's Council has expressed its indignation with the "continuing acts of vandalism against Prayer Crosses installed in the territory of Adygea."

The agreement on mutual visa-free travels between citizens of South Ossetia and Russia will be in force since March 2010. This was stated by Murat Dzhioev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia.

The consideration of the appeal complaint filed by young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade was again postponed by the Baku Appeal Court today. The reason was a strong snowfall that prevented their transportation to the trial.

Snowfalls and wire icing in the north of Dagestan crushed down power line supports made of reinforced concrete. Ten thousand residents remain without electric power, while specialists promise to completely restore supplies by February 8-9.

The prosecution has demanded to sentence Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, who was acquitted in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case but accused of extorting 350,000 US dollars from the main prosecution's witness in this case, to 10 years of imprisonment.

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of "zachistka" (clean-up) in the Chechen village named Novye Aldy, where 56 peaceful residents were murdered on February 5, 2000, Moscow hosted a press conference dedicated to the anniversary of those tragic events. During the event a documentary entitled "Aldy. With No Limitation Period", based on video evidences and video documents, was demonstrated.

Chechen ecologists plan to hold a broad-scale operation in the districts of the republic scale operation "Clean Water", aimed to prevent pollution of water bodies. The responsibility for observance of the nature protection legislation will be assigned to heads of municipal formations.

On February 3, the Yasamal District Court of Baku satisfied the claim of Ramil Usubov, head of the MIA of Azerbaijan, to Eyub Kerimov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Themis-007".

In Abkhazia, there is understanding that attitude to national minorities is among basic parameters of a country's development level as a democratic state. This was stated by President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh on February 3 in Sukhumi, in the course of his meeting with Knuth Vollebek, OSCE Supreme Commissioner on National Minorities.

Today, at the court session, where the attack on law enforcement bodies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005, evidences of Mohammed Mirzoev, a lawyer of the Bar of Kabardino-Balkaria, were heard. At the moment of the events, he worked as an operative agent of criminal investigation at the 1st OVD of Nalchik and was engaged in delivering defendants from the investigatory insulator to the UBOP (division for fighting organized crime) for interrogations.

The territorial Fund of Mandatory Medical Insurance (FMMI) of the Chechen Republic has summed up a sociology poll, conducted in 2009 in treatment-and-prophylactic establishments (T&PEs). According to these data, over 60 percent of respondents-hospital patients expressed their satisfaction with the quality of services.

On January 23, Ali Aslanly (Aslanov), a 1st year student of the Russian State Medical University (RSMU), was hospitalized to the in neurosurgery ward of Pirogov Hospital No. 33 in Moscow after he was beaten by his classmates. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has found out that the conflict burst out because of the debate in the Internet of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Militia Major from Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy, who placed his video appeal in the Internet with criticism of the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was subsequently accused of a swindle, can now face another criminal case, this time - on charges of drug dealing.