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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.

Three people were killed and two others wounded, when the car of the HALO Trust international organization got on a mine and blew up in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), a source said.

In Grozny, the court has sentenced three Azerbaijani citizens accused of illegally crossing the state border of the Russian Federation to several months of imprisonment to be served in a settlement colony.

For the second day, residents of Yerevan bring flowers and soft toys and light candles in memory of the victims of the tragedy in Kemerovo, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reported on March 28. On the territory of the diplomatic mission, the state flag is lowered as a sign of the mourning announced in Russia. The Russian Embassy opened a book of condolences.

Threats addressed to the Dagestani branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", its leader Sirazhudin Datsiev, and the employees were expressed quite regularly, Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya Director of the Centre for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, has stated.

Maxim Suraikin, the leader of the "Communist of Russia" Party, who had been one of candidates for taking part in presidential election, has filed lawsuits demanding to abolish voting results at 13 polling stations in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR).

After considering Imam Khamzat Chumakov's statement about his intent to leave the post of the Imam, the members of the board of the Nasyr-Kort Mosque in Ingushetia, recommended him to remain in the post. The Board's decision is of a recommendatory nature and legally does not oblige Chumakov to anything, said Bagaudin Khautiev, a community member.

Khalig Siyabov, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" movement, told about his beating up after detention and linked the pressure exerted on him by law enforcers with the movement leaders' call to boycott the presidential election.

Sirazhudin Datsiev, the head of the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", got average injuries after being attacked, there is no threat to his life, his relatives have been informed today by doctors.

Law enforcers, who are watching buyers of alcoholic drinks near a store in Grozny, seize from people the purchased alcoholic beverages and threaten them with sanctions, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed by local residents.

Residents of North Ossetia and other regions of Russia offered their help in response to the appeal of Kaspolat Ramonov, an attendant of the memorial to the victims of the terror act in Beslan. He reported that the financing of the memorial had been terminated two years ago and officials suggested forgetting the tragedy.

Today, Sirazhudin Datsiev, the head of the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", has been beaten near his home in Makhachkala, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Murad Magomedov, an advocate of the HRC.

On March 27, in Volgograd, a rally was organized by the authorities in memory of the victims killed by a fire in Kemerovo. A policeman demanded from participants to hide anti-corruption posters, activist Roman Zaitsev reported.

Dagestani Prosecutor Denis Popov has officially confirmed the detection of violations committed during the investigation into the killing of the Gasanguseinov brothers.

The China's TianGong-1 space station will enter the atmosphere and burn in it, and some parts of the space station can reach the Earth's surface, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported. The southern part of Dagestan fell into an area of probable fall of the China's space station.

In Southern Russia, a number of cities held mourning events to pay tribute to the victims of the fire in the shopping centre "Winter Cherry" in Kemerovo. Residents of Makhachkala, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, and Cherkessk have reported to the "Caucasian Knot" that they are afraid to visit large shopping centres. They have also called on to punish the persons guilty of the deaths of the people.

Today, at the Glory Memorial, residents of Vladikavkaz have commemorated those who perished in the fire of the Kemerovo "Zimnyaya Vishnya" (Winter Cherry) Shopping Centre; and on March 26, a mourning action "Memory Candle" was held at School No. 1 of Beslan. Speaking about the tragedy in Kemerovo, local residents equated it with what happened during the terror act in Beslan.

The Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has refused to open criminal cases on facts of torture of two convicts in the "Nardaran case", and failed to provide the defence with refusal statements, said Yalchin Imanov, one of the advocates, adding that he has filed a lawsuit against the GPO.

More than 40 people came to the Astrakhan Hyde Park to hold a rally demanding resignation of Aman Tuleev, the Governor of the Kemerovo Region, after the tragedy that occurred in the regional capital. Other residents of Astrakhan laid flowers at the monument "Family" in memory of those who perished in the fire.