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Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, was placed for 15 days into the dungeon (punishment cell) of the colony, where he is serving his sentence. In this way, the bosses of the Chechen colony have punished Geriev for his refusal to go out of his cell due to health problems.

The court reinstated Zarifa Sautieva, dismissed after participating in protests against the agreement on the border between Ingushetia and Chechnya. The activist's dismissal is of political nature, notes Timur Akiev, the head of the of Human Rights Centre "Memorial" office in Ingushetia.

The Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Mordovia began an inspection in a penal colony where prisoners injured themselves in protest. Former prisoners from Chechnya reported about the problems in the penal colony, while the chiefs of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) Department called the action an attempt of blackmail.

A native of Chechnya, who came to Germany in search of asylum, has offered help to the Speaker of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov, who had announced blood feud to Tumso Abdurakhmanov, the blogger himself has stated.

Employees of state institutions of the Shelkovskoy District of Chechnya have stated that participation in the subbotnik was compulsory for them: people went out to clean the streets, fearing to lose their jobs.

A court in the Komi Republic that refused to release a fourth-degree cancer patient Magomedsaid Gazaliev, has incorrectly interpreted the norms of the law that govern the release of prisoners, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has stated.

Two citizens of Georgia, Merab Khalvashi, Rector of the Batumi University, and Miranda Turmanidze, a scientific researcher at the Batumi Archaeological Museum, have been put on the sanctions list of Ukraine. They are outraged by the sanctions imposed on them.

There was no shootout among followers of Sheikh Batal-Khadji in the Ingush village of Surkhakhi, and reports of a split in the Batalkhaji Vird are truthless, members of the Vird assert.

The court has found Pavel Grib, a citizen of Ukraine, guilty of inciting his female acquaintance to commit a terror act in a Sochi school.

About 1500 Russian military servicemen of the Southern Military District (SMD) took part in the exercises held at Abkhaz training ranges, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

At least eight convicts, including residents of Chechnya, committed a mass self-mutilation in protest against the actions of the colony administration in Mordovia. The FSIN (Russian Federal Penitentiary Service) considers the protest to be unjustified.

The celebration of the Circassian New Year was held in Maikop with authorities' support. In Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, this day is not celebrated. The Circassian New Year comes from paganism; it is not a folk custom and is not popular among the Adygs, since most of them do not want to sacrifice their Islamic identity, activists have stated.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded the citizen of Azerbaijan, Adalyat Akhverdiev, a large compensation for the violation of his right to private property, obliging the authorities of this country to pay 146,000 euros under his complaint.

President Salome Zurabishvili's proposal to create an additional format of dialogue with Russia due to inefficiency of Geneva discussions is contrary to Georgia's interests, the country's opposition has stated.

In Dagestan, the armed underground has changed its way of life and has come to the form of secret units; therefore, it is too early to declare the complete absence of militants in the republic, report analysts.

Gulnara Rustamova, a well-known Dagestani human rights defender, a co-chair of the movement "Human Rights Protection", was killed in the Syrian city of Baguz, her friend Ayat Abdurakhmanova reported.

Law enforcers accused activist Anastasia Yemelyanova of disorderly conduct and threatened her with opening a criminal case after she had complained about counterfeit goods from the local market. According to the activist, corrupt law enforcers stand behind the counterfeit trade.

Examinations showed that General Manvel Grigoryan accused of embezzlement does not suffer of any diseases incompatible with the arrest, report investigators. Manvel Grigoryan should be released, since the arrest adversely affects his health, the defence insists.

During the shelling attacks on March 20-21, units of the Armed Forces of Armenia used large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

Protests of taxi drivers in the capital of Georgia will not entail a postponement of the introduction of new rules, according to which taxi cars should be painted white, announces Vice-Mayor Irakli Khmaladze.