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On February 18, General-Colonel Arkadiy Edelev, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, who was in charge of Northern Caucasus, was dismissed. The corresponding decree was signed by President Dmitri Medvedev, who had promised at the sitting of the MIA Collegium to reshuffle the ministerial cadre. Sources in the Kremlin report that Edelev may pass over to work for the office of the plenipotentiary representative at the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and head the Chief Department of the MIA for the NCFD, which Mr Medvedev suggested to create.

On Thursday, February 18, the Tbilisi City Court started considering the case of the son of the ex-president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - Tsotne, accused of an attempt of deliberate murder.

The advocates of the former militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy, who had placed in the Internet his video appeal to Vladimir Putin, believe that the inspector's decision to appoint a psychological-psychiatric examination of their client is an instrument of pressure on Dymovskiy.

The Russian Federation has lost two more cases at the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on complaints of residents of Chechnya on disappearances of their relatives. The statement of the ECtHR prescribes that Moscow shall pay out 120,000 to the applicants, plus legal costs.

Residents of the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, report about two explosions, which happened, when the delegation of the UK Parliament, headed by Lord by Frank Judd was visiting the republic. However, local law enforcement bodies assert that there were no accidents in Grozny during these days.

Galib Muvlanov, 24, a resident of Dagestan, who disappeared nine months ago in Makhachkala, is in the local SIZO (pre-trial isolation facility). According to his advocate, the preliminary investigation is over. Muvlanov is accused of encroaching on the life of law enforcers and illegal storage and manufacture of explosives.

The data about the number of today's explosions in Nazran differs. Local residents told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about six, not two, explosions. According to the latest information, 35 persons suffered.

Victor Biryukov, head of the Department for Information and PR of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of the city of Moscow, has refuted information that several fighters of Moscow OMON (special-purpose militia unit) were wounded in a skirmish in the Untsukul District of Dagestan.

In Sochi, swindlers who operate in the labour market are selling passes to the State Corporation (SC) "Olympstroy", which allow getting to Olympic objects.

Unidentified persons shelled a militia post in the Untsukul District of Dagestan and wounded three fighters of the Moscow OMON (special militia).

So far, power agencies could not get on the trail of the militants, who on February 15 twice started skirmishes with Chechen law enforcers in the Gudermes District. In the course of these combat clashes, an officer of the special-purpose MIA regiment was killed, and two more servicemen were wounded. It is supposed that some of searched militants were also wounded.

In the Moskovskaya Street of Nazran, close to the building, which earlier housed the city GUVD (City Interior Department), sappers are now de-mining a self-made bomb.