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The persons who tried to derail the "Neva-Express" train in August 2007 had to do with at least two more explosions in Russia. These are the results of the examination held within the investigation of the criminal case about the terror act and presented in the verdict of the Novgorod Regional Court passed of the train explosion case.

Russian special agencies are engaged in searching the four relatives of the widow of the assassinated Ingush oppositionist Maksharip Aushev, who disappeared in the end of last December in St Petersburg. However, so far, nothing is known about their whereabouts, a source in power agencies said.

As reported by Sergey Kucheruk, head of the GUVD (Interior Department) of the Krasnodar Territory, the second criminal case was opened against former Militia Major from Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy; this time, as he said, - under Article 303 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - forgery. Mr Kucheruk gave no details, but promised that more criminal cases will follow.

The Belarusian Company "Triple" has given up its plans of building a biathlon complex in Sochi for Olympiad-2014. As reported by the "Gazprom" and "Sochi-2014" Organizing Committee, the reason of demarche was Russia's refusal to grant export oil discounts to Belarus.

Today in Vladikavkaz, members of the initiative group "Electrozink. What do we breathe in?" have held another picket with a demand to decommission the "Electrozink" metallurgy factory.

Vakhtang Tsugba, Military Commissar (MC) of Abkhazia, rejects statements about forced recruitment of young Georgian nationals to the Abkhazian army. This was stated by Mr Tsugba in the context of the information disseminated by Georgian sources that an Abkhazian soldier Lekso Bzhaniya asked for political asylum in Georgia complaining of his violent recruitment.

Hieromonk Phillip (Ryabykh), deputy head of the Department of Foreign Church Relations, believes that the reaction to his words, which caused misunderstanding in Azerbaijan about three temples of the Moscow Patriarchy working in Armenia, including one in Nagorno-Karabakh, is obviously "exaggerated".

Members of Chechen NGOs report violations of citizens' rights and facts of extortion by employees of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (known in Russia as "GIBDD"). They note that the problem is especially topical at the road police posts located in the administrative borders with Ossetia and Dagestan.

As reported by Elkhan Polukhov, press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan, the embassy of Azerbaijan to Russia has sent a note of protest to Russia's MFA in the context of the statement made by the vice-speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky about possible recognition by Moscow of independence of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The street named in honour of Dzhokhar Dudaev in Riga will be renamed in 2010, said Nil Ushakov, Mayor of the Latvian capital. In his opinion, the street should bear a neutral name.

The Dutch Internet edition named "De Dagelijksestandaard" has dismissed one of its journalists for denying the fact of the genocide of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey and for his qualification of 1915 events as deportation.

A suit to be lodged to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the context of a breach of the Constitution of the Russian Federation as regards the freedom of worship. The pretext was the oppression of Jehovah's Witnesses by law enforcement bodies of the South federal District (SFD). This was stated by Gregory Martynov, press secretary of the administrative centre of this religious organization.

On Thursday, January 14, the embassies of the USA and Norway in Baku made a joint statement in the context of the incident with their employees on January 12 in the village of Bananyar, Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan.