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January 29, 2011 13:00

• Business-Ombudsman appointed in Georgia

  On January 28, Prime Minister of Georgia Nika Gilauri held consultations with David Bakradze, the parliamentary speaker, which resulted in appointment of Giorgi Pertaya to the post of Business-Ombudsman.

January 29, 2011 12:00

• GUVD: identikit of Domodedovo bomber roused public

  The identikit of the suicide bomber who committed a terror act at the Moscow-based Domodedovo Airport, disseminated among law enforcement bodies, has caused a lot of telephone calls to the police from citizens who believe that a person from among their acquaintances was pictured on the identikit.

January 29, 2011 08:00

• About 70 persons rally in protest against higher rates on utilities in Maikop

  Within the All-Russian action, on January 28, pickets were held in the capital of the Republic of Adygea and districts against increased tariffs on communal utilities.

January 28, 2011 23:30

• Rostov-on-Don: SFU bosses demand to remove notes about university away from blog

  Vladimir Radchenko, Director of the Centre for Public Relations and Communication Technologies of the Southern Federal University (SFU), demands that Sergey Reznik, a Rostov-based blogger, political analyst and journalist, removes from his online diary in LiveJournal a few dozens of notes, where the SFU and its administration are mentioned.

January 28, 2011 23:10

• 108 attacks on law enforcers committed in Kabardino-Balkaria in 2010

  In 2010, members of the religious extremist underground committed 108 attempts on the life of law enforcement officials, including judges and prosecutors, which is four times more than in 2009. This was announced on January 28 in Nalchik at the sitting of the Collegium of the Investigatory Department (ID) for Kabardino-Balkaria of the ICPO.

January 28, 2011 23:00

• Employees of division on minors in Kuschevskaya are suspected of concealing a crime statement

  A criminal case has been initiated against Tatiana Remeskevich, head of the division for minors of the Kuschevskiy ROVD (District Interior Division), Krasnodar Territory, on the revealed fact of concealment by Kuschevskaya militiamen of an application of a small girl's mother about a sexual assault committed on her daughter.

January 28, 2011 22:40

• Kabardino-Balkaria: head of Chegem District Administration dies, his driver wounded

  As a result of the today's attempt on Mikhail Mambetov, head of the administration of the Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, his driver was wounded. Mambetov died in hospital.

January 28, 2011 22:30

• State Duma adopts bill on terror threat levels in first reading

  The Russian State Duma has passed a bill in the first reading, allowing Russia to announce the so-called "colour" levels of terror threat. The appropriate changes drafted by the FSB will be made in the Federal Law "On Combating Terrorism". According to the authors of the bill, they will allow the relevant structures to promptly react to threats of terror acts, such as the one committed in Domodedovo on January 24.

January 28, 2011 22:20

• Dagestanis complain of militiamen's persecution

  Shamil Magomedov, a resident of Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk, Dagestan, complains of being persecuted and beaten by militiamen. He asks for help in his applications addressed to Vice-Premier of Dagestan Rizvan Kurbanov, Ombudsperson Umupazil Omarova, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan Andrei Nazarov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Abdurashid Magomedov and public movement named "Pravozaschita" (Rights Defence).

January 28, 2011 22:10

• Inquiry fails to confirm any "Pakistani trace" in Domodedovo terror act

  Investigators have no evidences about any involvement of Pakistani militants in the terror act at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport on January 24, said a source from the operative-investigatory group. Doctors also say that when making surgeries they did not remove any granite chips from victims' bodies: the striking elements were mostly metal or plastic fragments.

January 28, 2011 22:00

• Video records fail to confirm Razdobudsko's involvement in Domodedovo terror act

  As reported by a source from law enforcement bodies, the information that Vitaly Razdobudsko, a native of the Stavropol Territory, was an executor of the terror act at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport has nothing to do with reality.

January 28, 2011 21:00

• Dagestanis are in search of their missing relative

  Zukhra Omarova, a resident of the village of Krasny Voskhod, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, has announced that she was unaware of whereabouts of her husband, who was detained by law enforcers back on January 12, 2011. The missing man's house was searched today.

January 28, 2011 20:00

• Actions of memory of the victims of the act of terror in Domodedovo passed off in cities and towns of Russia

  Yesterday evening, January, 27, residents of Russian cities and towns lit candles and honoured the memory of the people who perished as a result of the terror act in Moscow airport Domodedovo on January, 24, with a minute's silence. Mourning actions in different places of Russia were organized by youth political and non-governmental organizations and users of social networks as well.

January 28, 2011 19:00

• Georgian citizens detained in South Osetia

  On Wednesday, January, 26, two citizens of Georgia were detained in the settlement of Balta, Znaur district of South Osetia. A reporter of "Caucasian Knot" received this information in the Frontier Department of Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in South Osetia.

January 28, 2011 18:00

• 25 schools in Volgograd region are closed up for quarantine

  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.

January 27, 2011 23:50

• Refugees hold another protest action in Georgia

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

January 27, 2011 23:50

• Georgian miners on strike

  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.

January 27, 2011 23:45

• Work of Rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan is hampered

  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.

January 27, 2011 23:30

• Moscow holds commemoration of Domodedovo casualties

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

January 27, 2011 23:10

• Investigators consider two basic versions of Domodedovo terror act

  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.