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Four Georgian sailors, who are staying for about a year aboard the Turkish cargo ship Hakki Cillioglu in the Sukhumi port, ask to help them to return home. The Abkhazian party denied information about detention of sailors.

The gunmen confirmed that leader of armed underground of the republic Ibrahimhalil Daydov (known as emir Salih among the gunmen) was killed in Dagestan. Sheikh Abdusalam, ethnic Turk, became his successor, a source in power-wielding structures of NCFO reports.

Four people perished and one got wounded as a result of an explosion in a vessel standing at a dock of Bakinskaya bay in the settlement of Zykh, Press secretary of State Nautical Administration of Azerbaijan (SNAA) Er-Salam Aliev reported.

A presentation of a joint documentary by a Georgian and an Ossetian producer “Trace of War” narrating about friendship between a man from Georgia and one from South Ossetia passed off on February, 15, in “Rustaveli” cinema, Tbilisi.

Natives of Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia Khajimurat Akkaev and Svetlana Tsarukaeva are the best weightlifters of 2011. This was acknowledged based on the results of voting held by “World Weightlifting” journal together with International Weightlifting Federation.

The religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses has announced 197 cases of violations of their rights in the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD) of Russia after the religious organization was banned in the Rostov Region in 2009. Expert's opinions on the operation principles of the community in Russia remain controversial: some of them still believe that Jehovah's Witnesses fail to observe the Russian legislation. Others are certain that the community is persecuted for ideological and political reasons.

Today, the Karabulak Court of Ingushetia held a session on the case of former employees of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, accused of torturing their detainees. During the court session, Gazdieva, a defence witness was questioned and asserted that Ilyas Nalgiev had an alibi.

A special flight of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) with ten victims of the explosion in the Volgograd cafe has landed in Moscow today.

Advocates of Ivan Agafonov's family expect that law enforcement bodies will agree to conduct a new examination in the case of world champion in mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev accused of causing death by negligence to Muscovite Ivan Agafonov.

The investigation has chosen three versions of the murder of Kurban Ismailov, Deputy Mufti of the Stavropol Territory. So far, they have no suspects. Today the religious leader was buried in his homeland.

The Volgograd Regional Court has sentenced three members of a criminal grouping accused of killing four people. All the three are former law enforcers.

Alla Djioeva, a former South-Ossetian presidential candidate, is ready to continue – when she recovers – insisting on recognition of her victory at the election; however, she does not exclude her quitting politics and turn to one of the countries for political asylum.