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Today, the Independent Press Centre in Prechistenka Street in Moscow has hosted a press conference entitled "Chechnya: construction of Argun-City - dozens of families thrown out onto the street", which was devoted to the results of the travel of Oleg Orlov and Svetlana Gannushkina, employees of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", to Northern Caucasus.

Last week passed as the aftermath of the terror act committed on Monday at the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport and continued through other armed incidents in North-Caucasian republics; inquiry into the massacre in the Stavropol Territory continues, but no particular results are reported; in Georgia, forcibly evicted refugees seek justice at the European Court and political asylum in the West, - look these and other events in the review of the week of January 24-30, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On February 1, the Austrian court decided to extradite Aslambek L., 32, a native of Chechnya, who was arrested in December 2010, to Belgium, where he is suspected of terrorist activities.

In 2011, voluntary testing for drug using among schoolchildren and university students will be held in all regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Representatives of Italian authorities have refuted the information of detention of Ruslan Umarov, a thirty-five-year-old brother of Dokku Umarov, leader of North Caucasian gunmen.

Ruslan Umarov aged 35, supposed brother of Dokku Umarov, one of the leaders of armed underground in Northern Caucasus, detained in the North of Italy several days ago appealed to Italian authorities with a request of political asylum.

After the explosion committed by a suicide bomber in Domodedovo Airport the North-Caucasian republics saw six armed incidents.

Today, the Warsaw Court of Appeal has upheld, taking into consideration the absence of Akhmed Zakaev, former head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, in Poland, the decision of the first instance court about impossibility to consider his extradition to Russia.

On January, 26, one child perished and two more got severe burns and traumas as a result of domestic gas explosion in Grozny district. This has been already the third case of this kind in the territory of the republic for the last week.

The utterances of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), about the nations of Northern Caucasus, pronounced on January 20, in Vladimir Solovyov's programme "Poyedinok" (Duel) on "Rossiya-1" National TV Channel, caused an extraordinary sitting of the Council of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia.

As reported by Radoslav Bashuk, advocate of Akhmed Zakaev, former head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, who is now in London and who was put by Russia on the international search list, Poland refused to grant visa to his client.

At night of January, 29, an explosion of domestic gas took place in one of the back rooms of a unit of the Ministry of Interior Affairs dislocated in the settlement of Khankala, in the neighbourhood of Grozny. Five officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia assigned to Chechnya from different regions were taken to hospital with woundings of various extent of gravity.

A next in turn session of the Criminal Court of Vienna, the tenth one, on the case of murder of Umar Israilov, ex-officer of President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov's security guard, took place on January, 19. A witness was interrogated during the session who denied his former evidence out of fear for his people living in Chechnya.

No less than 1710 people became victims of smouldering armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus in 2010. 754 people were killed and 956 more got wounded as a result of an armed conflict between enforcement agencies and armed underground. These are the results of "Caucasian Knot's" calculation based upon its own data and information from open sources.