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On March 30, in Grozny, officials from the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya together with religious figures and the police conducted large-scale inspections of shops selling Islamic goods and religious literature. No violations have been found out, reported an official from the Chechen Prosecutor's Office.

On March 31, Azerbaijan marks the Day of Genocide. Residents of all regions of the country honour the memory of victims of religious and ethnic violence in March 1918.

The Supreme Court of Austria (OGH) has dismissed the motion filed by the defence of Aslan Gagiev, a native of North Ossetia, with a request to cancel the decision to extradite to Russia the man, suspected of organizing a series of resonant murders.

Rakhim Namazov, wounded on March 30 in France, had been never engaged in journalism in Azerbaijan, members of the Azerbaijani media community told the "Caucasian Knot". According to the French authorities, Namazov was persecuted in Azerbaijan for his journalistic activities.

Today, Ziyavudin Magomedov, one of the richest Russia's businessmen, a native of Dagestan, had a talk with investigators, sources from his "Summa" Group have confirmed.

A deputy chief physician of the Republic's Orthopaedic and Dermatological Centre of Dagestan was stabbed in a brawl between visitors and the staff, a source has reported.

Today, the Ministry of Housing and Utilities of North Ossetia has reported the transfer of half of the annual amount to the account of the memorial to the victims of the terror act in Beslan after a cemetery attendant informed social network users about the termination of funding.

The human rights organization "Committee Against Torture" has announced a campaign in support of Oyub Titiev and invited everyone to send an electronic appeal to Vladimir Putin with a request to transfer the Oyub Titiev's case to investigators outside Chechnya.

On March 28, participants of the 43rd round of the Geneva Discussions failed to approve the declaration on the non-use of force in Transcaucasia. The format of the Geneva Discussions was initially unsuitable for concluding an agreement on the non-use of force. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Rakhim Namazov, a journalist, who was granted asylum in France after being persecuted in Azerbaijan, was seriously wounded today when his car was shelled.

Within the last 24 hours, units of the Armenian Armed Forces have violated the ceasefire for 95 times at different frontline sections, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

A solo picket against corruption, held by Irina Barkhatova, a resident of Sochi, was stopped by court marshals, who detained the woman.

Negotiations of officials of the "Georgian Manganesi" Company with the miners, who demand to improve their working conditions, did not take place, as the company's special manager got to hospital. Miners promised to wait for ten days and then to go on strike.

The health condition of the two wounded sappers after they were operated on remains grave, one of them lost his legs, said the director of the Stepanakert medical centre.

The Azerbaijan presidential election campaign is held in the absence of rivalry and against the backdrop of severe restrictions on the freedom of speech, the report of the Observation Mission of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has stated.

Russian authorities must stop persecuting rights defenders in Northern Caucasus, find and punish the perpetrators of the attack on Sirazhudin Datsiev, the head of the Dagestani branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the Human Rights Commissioners of the United Nations (UN) and the Council of Europe (CoE), and the international Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization have stated.

On March 28, the YouTube video channel posted a video appeal of Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the Gasanguseinov shepherd brothers, killed by Dagestani law enforcers in August 2016.

During the year of visa-free regime, over 196,000 citizens of Georgia visited the Schengen zone, Nino Djvakhadze, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, said on March 27.

The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated today that one of the employees of the interests section of the Russian Federation at the Swiss Embassy should leave the country within the next seven days. The Georgian authorities explain this as a solidarity gesture with Great Britain.

The investigator in charge has orally granted one of the two motions submitted on March 20, in which the advocate of the rights defender Oyub Titiev asked to conduct an investigative experiment in connection with Titiev's arguments about the falsification of evidence of illegal drug possession, the press service of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" has stated today.