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The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has delivered to the court the criminal case opened against a resident of the Republic, aged 56, who shot dead his daughter of 33 in autumn of last year. He is accused not only of the murder, but also of illegal purchase of firearms.

The film "City of Lonely Mothers" made by the "Russia Today" Russian English-language TV Channel on the life in Tskhinvali during the first days of last August South Ossetia-Georgia conflict was awarded a silver medal at the international festival named "New York Festivals".

In 2008, kidnappings in Dagestan did not stop, which is also admitted by spokesmen from the MIA of Dagestan. However, in estimation of their number and consequences the official data is essentially different from what human rights activists report. This is the topic of the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", which was received by the "Caucasian Knot".

The today's meeting in Vladikavkaz of the Head of North Ossetia Taimuraz Mamsurov with Gesche Karrenbrock, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Russia, has ended with an agreement on continuation and strengthening of cooperation with the aim to settle the problem of forced migrants.

In Chechnya, law enforcers hold inquiry into a young woman's murder; her body with several gunshot wounds was found in the Shelkovskoy District.

Sergeant Alexander Glukhov who deserted his military unit based in Akhalgori for Georgia was not the first one to quit Russian military troops deployed in South Ossetia. Shortly before the incident with Glukhov, another soldier had tried to run away home via Georgia; however he was detained there and sent back.

In the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, the debts of miners-pensioners are collected in the mass order through the court. Valery Dyakonov, deputy of the city duma of Zverevo, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that five trials took place in recent days and ruled to collect the pensioners' indebtedness for heating on the suits lodged by the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Donenergo".

Residents of Sochi are going to file a complaint against Russian government to the European Court on Human Rights about mass violations of the European Convention on Human Rights under the aegis of the forthcoming Olympic Games.

Yesterday, on February 2, late at night, the police arrested Khikmet Veliev, a resident of Nardaran and an active participant of recent anti-Israeli actions held in this settlement located 30 km north-east of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" demands from Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov to coordinate the route of the action planned on February 8 in memory of assassinated Stanislav Markelov and Anastasiya Baburova and other recent victims of politically motivated terror in Moscow.

Two residents of Chechnya have been detained by employees of law enforcement bodies in the foothill Achhoy-Martan District. The detainees are accused of helping participants of illegal armed formations (IAFs).

Liudmila Sarkisyan, Chair of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party, asserts that the authorities of Armenia have no proofs on the "Case of Seven", therefore, the litigation is under risk to turn into a mere farce.

The authenticity of the list of 300 natives from Chechnya, sentenced to death by President Kadyrov, which was published in the western press, has not been proved yet. This was stated by Chris Chivers, one of the authors of the article published in the American "New York Times", in his exclusive interview to the "Caucasian Knot"; the article was about the story told by the murdered Chechen emigrant Umar Israilov about the cruelty of the Chechen regime.

Today, the international human rights organization "Reporters without Borders" has criticized the course of the trial on the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper. This is the topic of press release disseminated by the organization.