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As reported by the Investigatory Department for Chechnya of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia, on February 4 the leader of a group of militants was assassinated in one of the settlements of the Vedeno District of Chechnya in the course of a special operation held in the south of the republic.

The court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan communities Centre-Nork-Marash has passed a verdict of "non-guilty" to human rights activist Arshaluis Akopyan, who is in custody for five months.

On Friday, February 5, St Petersburg was the venue of the first run and discussion of film "Aldy. With No Limitation Period", showing the events ten years ago, when on February 5, 2000, in a clean-up ("zachistka") in Novye Aldy village in Chechnya, conducted by the St Petersburg OMON (special militia), 56 peaceful residents were killed.

The Russian Federal Service on Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (known as "Rostekhnadzor") has considered the application of liberal-democrats of Northern Ossetia dealing with the adverse ecological situation due to emissions of the "Electrozink" factory.

The National Centre of Assessments and Examinations has published statistics on the most demanded departments chosen by high school entrants in Georgia in this academic year. The most popular departments are of business and economy, law, international relations, sociology and information technologies. Only 0.8 percent of all the entrants plan to apply to pedagogical departments.

In Makhachkala, employees of Dagestan law-enforcement agencies and inspectors of the Chief Investigatory department on the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts are investigating the murder of Ahmed Magomedov, head of the UVD (Interior Department) of Makhachkala.

On February 5, Volgograd hosted a sitting on safe neutralization of environmentally hazardous substances. A microbiological preparation named "Bioglauconite", created by Volgograd scientists, was presented to the audience.

Residents of the Mineralovodskiy District of the Stavropol Territory stand in defence of the mineral source, located in the place, where local authorities plan to build a landfill for domestic wastes. People are afraid that garbage from the whole vicinity will be brought here.

Today in the morning, the Rostov Musical Theatre hosted a solemn opening of the All-Russian educational action "Healthy Hearts". The aim of the action is to draw attention of people to their health, in particular, to vascular diseases.

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.