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The operation aimed at finding the grouping of militants, which was detected on February 2 near the Chechen-Dagestani administrative border, has brought no results yet. Power agents do not exclude that the blocked militants could get out of the cordon. The special operation continues.

Today, the whole territory of the Chechen Republic hosts celebrations of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, which began early in the morning.

In Sochi, Yuri Chesnokov, Chief of Division for Recreation and Tourism of the Khosta District, who signed the schedule for obtaining absentee ballots sent to the sanatorium-and-spa institutions, was dismissed for exceeding the power.

With the onset of cold weather in the Volgograd Region, 25 persons died from hypothermia. This was reported by Natalya Kunitskaya, Senior Assistant of the Chief of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) of the Volgograd Region for Media Relations.

The Military Court of Novorossiysk started consideration of the case against the soldier of the army unit in Novorossiysk, who is charged of the fact that in August 2011 he beat several colleagues, one of whom, a 21-year-old sailor, died.

This morning, about a hundred persons gathered near the city administration of Stavropol in protest against corruption among bureaucrats. Citizens began expressing their dissatisfaction after the head of the administration Igor Bestuzhij was detained on February 2 on suspicion of bribe-taking.

The criminal case initiated against Vasily Styazhkin, the director of the factory of wall materials, and Andrei Knippel, the former deputy commander of the separate battalion of patrol-and-road service (PRS) at the UVD (Interior Department) for Kamyshin and Kamyshin District, has been forwarded to the court.

The advocates of the defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik in October 2005 deny any involvement of their clients in the appeal to the participants of protest rallies in Moscow, written on behalf of the defendants.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed today by Shamil Magomedov, a resident of the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, that in the course of operative-search actions law enforcers detained three local residents, who were later beaten.

This morning, under unknown circumstances, three men disappeared from the village of Shamkhal in Dagestan, as Shamil Magomedov, a villager, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the Trusov District Court of Astrakhan has held a session for considering the lawsuit lodged by the Centre of Social Support of Population on withdrawal of minors from the custody care of a resident of the city Vera Drobinskaya. According to the defendant's attorney Svetlana Tornitsoy, the claim was left by the court without consideration.

During the period of January 23-29, at least 15 persons were killed and 5 persons were wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.