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Today in Nazran, agents of the DFSB for Ingushetia and the STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of Russia, also known as "GIBDD") are inspecting motor vehicles because a terror threat. In the opinion of Magomed Mutsolgov, a well-known Ingush human rights activist and expert of the office of Russian Ombudsman, who was exposed to such procedure, power agents are exceeding their powers and break the Russian legislation.

In his comments on the recent terror acts committed in his republic, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has treated the work of power agents and local administrations as very poor.

Citizen of Egypt Mohmad Mohammad Shakhban, also known as "Safe Islam", who was liquidated in Dagestan, was the founder of the al-Qaeda network in Northern Caucasus and main organizer of the explosion on January 6 in Makhachkala. This was reported by the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Dagestan.

Today, Ferzullah Kakhrimanov, deputy head of the administration of the capital of Dagestan, said that following the order of Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov a decision was made not to increase the cost of trip tickets for drivers of fixed-route taxis of Makhachkala. Its price rate remains unchanged - 2800 roubles per month.

A bit more than 24 hours after the last interview of the murdered Chechen human rights defender Natalia Estemirova appeared in the website of Ingush opposition "Ingushetiyaru.org", it was attacked with a huge force and finally deprived of any working capacity. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Lydia Mikhalchenko, editor of the website.

As stated by Maksharip Aushev's brother Mussa, Rustam Dobriev, who was shot dead in Nazran on January 30, was not their relative, as asserted by federal masses media. Mussa is sure that this murder, like many others, was aimed at destabilizing the situation in Ingushetia.

Today at its regular session, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, which considers the case on the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, agreed to the request of one of the defendants and released his advocate from the case.

Today, Magomed Musaev, a teacher of technology of the Makhachkala secondary school No. 45, addressed his letter to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev. The complaint is against the actions of the school principal Patimat Magomedova, who refused to pay extra salary to teachers, as envisioned within the new payment system.

According to Public Prosecutor Yuri Turygin, the today's shelling of the building of the MIA of Ingushetia, located in central Nazran, where, under the latest data, one person was lost also three others wounded, is a militants' reaction to detention of members of illegal armed formations and their helpers.

One person was lost also two more heavily wounded in the Nozhay-Yurt District of Chechnya, when an "Ural" truck with power agents inside fell down from the precipice.

A Chechen militiaman has fatally wounded himself from his service pistol. The Chechen MIA finds the suicide version unrealistic.

Today in Makhachkala, drivers of fixed-route taxis have not come to work. Meanwhile, Ferzullah Kakhrimanov, deputy head pf the administration of the capital of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the negotiations held yesterday in the afternoon resulted in an agreement to stop the strike.

Under update information, the triggered grenade launcher, found in a children's playground in the city of Nazran, Ingushetia, injured four OMON (special militia) fighters, an inspector and a local resident.

Negotiations of three presidents on Karabakh conflict; outcomes of Geneva discussions; attempts in Southern and newly formed North-Caucasian Federal Districts; terror act in Abkhazia, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of January 25-31, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Tonight in Ingushetia, unidentified persons shot dead a Nazran local resident named Dobriev, a relative of the Ingush human rights activist Maksharip Aushev, assassinated last October. Dobriev died in place from received wounds.