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Law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic refute information about huge losses among peaceful citizens as a result of the militaries' operation near the Ingush village of Arshty. According to the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia four residents of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya were lost and one more is considered to be missing.

Inspectors managed to identify 16 out of 22 persons who perished as a result of a combat clash in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia.

Today, the Taganka Court of Moscow has found Sergey Hadjikurbanov, earlier acquitted on Anna Politkovskaya's murder case, guilty of extorting 350,000 US dollars and sentenced him to eight years of imprisonment.

In Astrakhan, the Kirov Regional Court has released on bail two employees of the city UVD (Interior Department) suspected of beating a confession out of a citizen. Their four colleagues are under recognizance not to leave.

Boris Gidaev, a witness in the criminal case about the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria, told about the circumstances, known to him, which preceded the possible suicide of Valery Kuchmezov, an employee of law-enforcement bodies, which had to do with the events on October 13, 2005.

Khavazh Geroev, an employee of the Security Council of Ingushetia, was heavily wounded in a terror act and hospitalized. His car was blown up by means of a bomb.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has delayed the consideration of the rehabilitation claim lodged by Ruslan Musaev, one of the acquitted figurants in the case on the attempt on President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov committed back in May 2007.

Today, the consideration of the appeal complaint lodged by young bloggers' Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade was again postponed by the Baku Appeal Court.

The litigation on the case of Tsotne - the son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - will resume at the Tbilisi City Court on February 18 at 1:30 p.m., said his advocate Keti Bekauri.

Incessant armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; loss of satellite signal of Georgian TV Channel causing an international conflict; Baku and Yerevan restart talking about a new war for Nagorno-Karabakh, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of February 1-7, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The former junior sergeant Alexander Sivyakov, who was convicted to four years of imprisonment for mockeries during his military service in the Chelyabinsk garrison over private soldier Andrei Sychov, recruited from Novocherkassk, Rostov Region, has been set free. Andrei Sychov's family believes that Sivyakov was too leniently punished.

The UVD of Novorossisk and SIZO (pre-trial facility) of Krasnodar are thoroughly studying the publications in mass media about Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy; the latter entity is even printing out them and takes measures to improve the custody conditions of detainees there. This was reported by Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee of Human Rights (NCHR) and Alexei Dymovskiy's official representative.

A criminal case has been opened in Karachai-Circassia against the militia major on the fact of beating a detainee, who subsequently died.

Today, Kheda Saratova, head of the Information-Analytical Agency "Objective", has left the United Mobile Group (UMG) of human rights activists, engaged in tracing the situation in the Chechen Republic and investigating the crimes against local residents. Kheda's statement about quitting the UMG was a complete surprise for some of her colleagues.

On February 8, upon expiry of imprisonment, Sardar Alibeili, editor-in-chief of the "Nota" newspaper, was set free. He served his term in minimum security colony No. 14. Mr Alibeili has stated that he will continue his journalistic activities and writing about the problems "of public concern."