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Armen Petrosyan, one of the owners of the "Jazzve" café chain, has called upon his colleagues, café owners and workers, to stop protests in view of the current explosive situation, and move the struggle exclusively to the legitimate field.

Alan Margishvili and Giorgi Chitishvili, who were detained by South-Ossetian law enforcers, were released and, after paying a fine for violating the border, handed over to Georgian law enforcers.

A man, who introduced himself as a retired law enforcer, recorded an audio message on the YouTube service, criticizing his former colleagues, after his son was detained in Gudermes.

A policeman was fired after he got into the video showing him beating up a protester against the demolition of a café in Yerevan, the Armenian Police has reported.

Georgian medical experts have found traces of a rope on the body of Irakli Kvaratskheliya, who had been detained in Abkhazia. The border administration of the Russia's FSB has confirmed the version of his non-violent death.

Policemen have detained 41 protesters of the actions against the demolition of cafés held in Freedom Square in Yerevan; 25 detainees have already been released, the Armenian Police have informed.

Law enforcers conducted searches in the village of Ust-Nevinsky, not far from which a special operation took place at night. It was reported on the arrest of an accomplice of two killed militants.

The today's shootout with two suspected militants killed in the Shpakovsky District was the first armed incident in the Stavropol Territory since early 2019.

A policeman has become the third victim in clashes between law enforcers and opponents of the demolition of a cafe in Yerevan.

Today, two natives of the Volgograd Region have been killed by law enforcers in the Stavropol Territory. The National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports that the suspects were plotting a terror act. According to the NAC, no one else suffered.

Today, in Yerevan, owners and employees of a cafe have blocked an avenue in protest against the demolition of catering enterprises. Law enforcers pushed the protesters away from the roadway, and 16 activists were brought to police stations.

On March 13, after they delivered speeches at a rally in Nazran, activists Akhmed Barakhoev, Akhmet Pogorov, and Malsag Uzhakhov were brought to the Ingush Centre "E" (Centre for Combating Extremism).

At a sitting in Stepanakert, the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has unequivocally presented his policy of resolving the Karabakh conflict, speaking in favour of Nagorno-Karabakh's participation in the negotiations. Against this background, the Karabakh leaders, the protégés of the former Armenian authorities, are unfriendly towards Pashinyan, said the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

By publicizing the archival video featuring Akhmat Kadyrov, Chechen authorities wanted to show that he was independent; however, the video itself has confirmed the words of the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, about the appeals of the first Chechen president to jihad, Ruslan Kutaev, a public figure, has stated.

At the Georgia-South Ossetia demarcation line, near the village of Karapila, South-Ossetian law enforcers detained two residents of Kaspi municipality.

The construction of a mosque named after Ramzan Kadyrov in the city of Shali is coming to an end, the Mayoralty has reported. A mosque capable to house 20,000 believers in the city with a relatively small population is not needed; for the convenience of residents, it would be worthwhile to build several small mosques in different parts of the city, local residents told the "Caucasian Knot".

Ayub Tuntuev, a former security of the head of Chechnya, who was found dead in the colony, had never expressed his intent to commit suicide, but reported threats received after his complaint about torture was sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the "Legal Initiative" has stated.

The absence in Northern Caucasus of actions like the feminists held in Baku on March 8 is caused not by local women's fear, but by their ideas about the appropriate social activeness, Svetlana Anokhina, a journalist, has explained.

The head of Chechnya has condemned the US sanctions imposed in connection with the murder of Boris Nemtsov, and said he had no assets in the Middle East that US authorities decided to find.

The Azerbaijani Army is mastering offensive operations in conditions close to the situation at the Karabakh frontline; this is a demonstration of readiness for a forceful resolution of the Karabakh conflict, Baku military analysts believe.