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On February 13, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Volgograd sentenced Alexander Savelyev, Chief of the Operational Service Division of the Department of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (UFSKN) in the Volgograd Region, to 9 years of imprisonment in high security colony for sale of narcotics.

Public prosecutor's office of Moscow appealed against the judgment of Zamoskvoretsky court of releasing on bail the twenty-five-years-old World champion in mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev after whose blow a nineteen-years-old student Ivan Agafonov died, Prosecutor General's of Russia reported.

The police of the town of Kamensk-Shakhtisky, Rostov region, are carrying out search of an armed man who opened fire in a store and wounded a shop assistant.

Three policemen perished and six got wounded in a battle at the administrative border between Chechnya and Dagestan on February, 13.

A woman-resident of Nazran claims that because of the hostile attitude of their relatives, serving in the power agencies of the republic, her family lost their house and her son was tortured, beaten and convicted on fabricated criminal case.

The office of the Ombudsman received 20 complaints from defendants, kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 of the city of Cherkessk. The defendants reported that they were beaten by staff members of the SIZO. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Oleg Dzamykhov, Senior Consultant to the Ombudsman, at present, investigation into the incident in conducted by the Investigatory Committee of Karachay-Cherkessia.

Anomalous frosts in Southern Russia and countries of Southern Caucasus result in numerous emergencies and accidents; failed inauguration of Alla Djioeva in South Ossetia; start of trial on massacre in Stavropol; end of nomination of candidates for MPs of Abkhazia, Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria supports striking drivers of the; bill on wage regulation brought in the parliament of the Volgograd Region, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of February 6-12, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

A bomb was exploded under the car of Kurman Ismailov, Deputy Mufti of the Stavropol Territory. This was reported by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The information that the monk Father Iona, the Georgian priest of the temple Sameba (Holy Trinity), was released as a result of activities of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Abkhazia does not correspond to reality. This was stated by Laurens Kogoniya, the head of the Interior Division of the Gali District of Abkhazia, located near the border with Georgia.

During the second Chechen war, some 3000-5000 persons had disappeared. This was reported by Alexander Cherkasov, the member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", at the presentation of the book about disappeared and murdered residents of Chechnya.

Investigative bodies of Saratov region started a pre-investigative inspection concerning Lidia Sviridova, Head of the regional branch of "Union of Soldiers' Mothers" dealing with the case of soldier Andrey Popov accused of desertion who earlier stated that he had been kept in slavery in Dagestan. This was reported by Sviridova herself.

The Georgian priest and monk, Father Iona, who was kept in the territory of Abkhazia for more than two weeks, was released as a result of actions of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Shota Utiashvili, the head of the analytical department of the MIA, said today at a special briefing.

The General Prosecutor's Office has sent to the court the case against Timur Tsuruev, a resident of Ingushetia, accused of involvement in the riots in Nazran in January 2008. He was also accused of threatening to use violence against state officials.

Four militants were killed in a special operation in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported today.