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The final exams at schools and competitions of the Youth and Women's Leagues by the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan, scheduled for March 9, were cancelled because of the threat of the coronavirus spread.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled, including those located in five villages of the border districts, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

The government recommended local authorities to cancel all mass events; 120 people are quarantined, the press service of the Prime Minister of Georgia has informed.

The Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has told about his arrest after the fight with a man who penetrated into his apartment and tried to kill him with a hammer; Tumso has reported the details of the incident.

During the week from February 24 to March 1, 2020, during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no casualties and victims were recorded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its materials and information from other open sources.

The head of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division), who has scolded detainees for drinking alcohol and using psychotropic substances, labelled them as "terrorists." Some social network users have joined the condemnation of detainees.

The events in Chechnya in memory of Pskov paratroopers show Ramzan Kadyrov's desire to improve his relations with the federal law enforcement bodies, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The "Committee against Torture" (CaT) and relatives of Musa Aliev, a resident of Khasavyurt, accused of raping a minor girl, did not ask to hand over the case of his torture by law enforcers to the Dagestani branch of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), human rights defenders have noted.

Today, Ingush activist Magomed Ozdoev has been released from a penal colony in Kabardino-Balkaria. He was met by his relatives and fellow villagers.

Today, Ivan Achba, Asida Kortua, and Djansukh Adleiba, members of an anti-corruption laws initiative group, have declared an indefinite hunger strike. They demand an urgent ratification of the original version of Article 20 "Illicit Enrichment" of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). The activists insist that the amendments should enter into force before the presidential election.

Actions in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow and Southern Russia; assassination attempt on Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov; penetration of coronavirus into the countries of the Southern Caucasus, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 24-March 1, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Social network users criticized the police of Dagestan for making public an apology from an author of a video about a street conflict between law enforcers and local residents. Many users of the social networks also called on the police to post apologies from the policemen for foul language they used as the video showed.

Participants of a rally in memory of Azerbaijani journalist Elmar Guseinov demanded from the authorities to find and punish the persons responsible for his death.

The publication of a new video in which the chief of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division) is reproaching detainees for drinking alcoholic beverages and using psychotropic substances indicates the inefficiency of the public condemnation practice, local residents note.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled from large-calibre machine guns and sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijani reports today.

A story prepared by the "Grozny" ChGTRK (State TV and Radio Company) about events in memory of the Pskov paratroopers killed 20 years ago near Ulus-Kert provoked indignation among social network users, and a number of followers of the "Grozny" ChGTRK's page on Instagram decreased by 3000 people.

The blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who was attacked in late February, has warned his relatives that for some time he would not be able to keep in touch with them.

Magomed Abubakarov and Ramzan Uzuev have urged as many people as possible to write letters to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation ICRF) asking them to stop the criminal prosecution of residents of Baksan, Asker and Lianna Khamukov.

A resident of Dagestan has apologized for foul language when filming a street conflict of local residents with policemen. The video of repentance was posted by the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), despite the request of the head thereof not to post videos with apologies.

A resident of Ingushetia is suspected of the leak of the operative video, after which a woman who got into it was killed.