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With the support of activists from Abkhazian regions, the Sukhumi hunger-strikers, who demand to ratify the article on illegal enrichment of the UN Convention against Corruption, have collected 1800 signatures in support of the anti-corruption law.

The campaign against drinking alcoholic beverages unleashed in Chechnya is mainly aimed not at countering drunkenness, but at supporting the authorities' image as defenders of traditional values, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

On March 6, law enforcers conducted their regular raid in the vicinity of the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala. Believers said that because of the entry into the database of extremists, law enforcers are subjecting them to checks at stationary posts.

The protest actions held in Tbilisi in February 2020 were attended by more law enforcers than protesters, employees of the Institute for Democracy Studies have informed.

For the third day in a row, Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the murdered shepherd brothers, has held his solo picket in Makhachkala demanding an efficient investigation of the murder case. He has notified the Dagestani Ministry of Justice (MoJ) about an intended mass protest action.

In Moscow, policemen wounded Zelimkhan Yusupov, a native of Chechnya, who was armed with a knife. The man has been hospitalized. He is suspected of trying to attack the policemen.

Investigators do not allow visits of relatives to Zarifa Sautieva at a SIZO (pre-trial prison), and today, due to the fact that the court was declared to be held behind closed doors, only participants of the trial were allowed to attend the court hearing, relatives of the Ingush activist report.

A soldier got a slight wound as a result of an act of sabotage in the north-eastern direction of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports.

Ismail Denilkhanov, the chairman of the Chechen Public Chamber, appealed to residents of the republic and called reports of the alleged coronavirus epidemic in the region a fake. Instagram users supported the Ismail Denilkhanov's statement. They also called on to put amendments to the law on dissemination of false information on social networks.

The rating of the World Health Organization (WHO) has placed Georgia among the countries with weak epidemic prevention capabilities. Insufficient measures have been taken to protect the population, the WHO has noted.

At the request of the Azerbaijani government, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has excluded from the list of considered complaints the application of Ogtai Gyulyalyev, the coordinator of the public alliance "Azerbaijan without Political Prisoners". The country's authorities have undertaken to pay compensation for his arrest.

Over almost three years after the decision of the Russian Supreme Court to liquidate all the organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses, announced as extremist, hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses* in different regions of Russia were criminally prosecuted. By March 5, 2020, the number of such believers has reached at least 320, says the website containing information about criminal cases against Jehovah's Witnesses*. Almost 12% of them are residents of Southern Russia, the "Caucasian Knot" has counted.

Shakhla Gumbatova, whose powers as a lawyer are suspended in Azerbaijan, has become a laureate of the US Department of State's International Award "Women of Courage".

The guilt of five residents of the Astrakhan Region, sentenced to long terms under the case of a unit of the "Islamic State" (IS, a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court), has not been proved; the verdict will be appealed against, the advocates have stated. Relatives complain that they could not see the defendants from the day they were detained.

Pashazade Orkhan Nazim oglu, an Azerbaijani border guard, was mortally wounded during a shelling attack committed by Armenia, the Azerbaijani State Frontier Service has stated.

Despite the objections of hundreds of candidates for MPs, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Azerbaijan has declared that the parliamentary elections have taken place. On March 5, outside the CC building, protesters promised to complain to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about election violations.

For the second day in a row, Dagestan authorities make no reaction to the pickets held by Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the murdered Gasanguseinov shepherd brothers. He explains his pickets by an attempt to prevent new killings of innocent people by law enforcers.

In Yaroslavl, law enforcers planted explosives to Arthur Kadiev, a native of Dagestan, and tortured him to force him to confess to plotting a terror act, the journal "7x7"reports.

A sharp statement voiced by the acting President of Abkhazia, who demanded from the Russian authorities to justify the Russian media's reports about the poisoning of Aslan Bzhaniya, was addressed to the Abkhaz electorate on the eve of the presidential election and would not entail any deterioration in the Russian-Abkhaz relations. This opinion was voiced by analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

In a conflict between residents of Dagestan and law enforcers, both sides behaved inappropriately, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MA) of Dagestan declares.