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On January 21, at night, Anton Ryzhov, a member of the united mobile group of the Council of the Inter-Regional Committee against Torture (IRCAT), which is investigating torture and killings in Chechnya, was detained by the transport police, when he got out of the train in Nizhny Novgorod.

The parties in the litigation "Kadyrov vs. Orlov" differ in assessing the outcome of the trial. The defendant and his representatives are satisfied with the decision of the court, while the claimant has not yet decided whether to appeal against the verdict or not.

The experts who conducted a repeated examination of the pistol, with which Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", was killed, have found a woman's DNA traces, said Murad Musaev, the advocate of Rustam Makhmudov, who is considered by investigators to be the gunman.

During the last week of January 9-15, at least 22 persons were killed and other 36 were wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Special measures to find members of the illegal armed formations in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia and Chechnya have been completed, and no militants were found.

Everton, the ex-forwarder of the Grozny "Terek" FC, said that during his stay in the team, their coach could afford to hit the players in the faces. The FC stated that they knew nothing about acts of violence.

Residents of Chechnya, who were declared by the authorities as killed during a special operation, were earlier kidnapped Ali Aidamirov, Khalid Dushaev, and Israil Adizov. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with reference to relatives of the killed persons.

About a hundred former workers two Turkish construction companies - "Penta" and "Bora-Inshaat" - have held a rally in Grozny to demand payment of wage debts.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Chechnya plans to provide polling stations with books of complaints and proposals. Working groups have been set up to install web cameras at polling stations.

In the afternoon on January 13, nearly a hundred construction workers went out for a rally in central Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, demanding payment of their wages. All the protesters are employees of the Turkish construction company "Penta".

The Chechen authorities will pay one million roubles to every family of the law enforcers lost in the special operation undertaken in the Vedeno District. The wounded participants of the operation were promised 300,000 roubles each, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

Last year, at least 1378 people fell victim to the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including 750 casualties and at least 628 wounded persons. These are the results of calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

According to the Russian media rating of the "National Monitoring Service" and the "Institute for Independent Political Research", following the results of 2011, the Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov entered the top three most information transparent heads. According to the study, the most inaccessible leader in Southern Russia is Alexei Orlov, the leader of Kalmykia. Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, occupies the 30th position in the rating.

Human rights defenders criticize the Georgian Code of Administrative Offences; protest action of Vladikavkaz residents against operation of "Electrozink" Factory; Orthodox believers of the Caucasus celebrate Christmas; complaint of Azerbaijani UN representative against violations of ceasefire in Karabakh conflict zone; first in the new year skirmish in Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria with casualties and victims, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of January 2-8, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".