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Grigory Karasin, a Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, has warned the Georgian authorities about the "unpleasant surprises" that could be caused by Georgia-NATO cooperation. Georgian politicians have treated this statement as a hidden threat. However, the official Tbilisi abandoned any harsh retaliatory rhetoric.

Givi Targamadze has expressed dissatisfaction that, while investigating the attempt on him, the Georgia's Prosecutor's Office and the Tbilisi City Court failed to establish the customer of the crime.

A fire that broke out in the village of Tissi-Akhitli of the Tsumadin District of Dagestan has destroyed about 30 houses.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated the complaint against the verdict to Karen Kazaryan, sentenced in Azerbaijan to 20 years in prison, and decided to consider the case in an accelerated manner, the defence of Kazaryan, a citizen of Armenia, has stated.

Five thousand people took part in the march on the 11th anniversary of the clashes of oppositionists with law enforcers. The authorities will never solve internal problems by force, the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has promised.

Commenting on the authorities' promises to build housing for the resettlers and pay installation allowances to them, natives of the Galanchozh District have expressed concern that the necessary infrastructure would not be fully built.

The Sochi authorities claim that there is no danger to townspeople living near the Kepsha River. Activists have linked the flooding in Sochi with large-scale extraction of gravel from the river and the construction of Olympic facilities.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has decided that after the mitigation of the article on extremism, there was no crime element in the case of Arkadi Akopyan, a believer of Jehovah's Witnesses, the religious organization, recognized as extremist and banned by the court decision.

The testimony about the joint use of drugs with Mikhail Savostin, the head of the "People's Assembly of Mineralnye Vody", was given under pressure, said the witness, Sergey Didenko, at the court session on February 28 and named the law enforcer who threatened him.

Russia has given Fakhraddin Abbasov, a Talysh activist, out to Azerbaijan; he is accused in his homeland of appeals against territorial integrity and of hostility incitement.

The film "Extreme South", the presentation of which is scheduled for March 2, tells about the fate of four residents of Anapa, who were tortured and became figurants of a criminal case on robbery. For the fourth year, they are under house arrest, whereas there is not a single suspect in the torture case, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed.

The updated Chechen-Ingush border has been checked by experts of federal agencies and entered into the "Rosreestr" (Unified State Real Estate Registry – USRER), the agency has announced today.

During the last 24 hours, the truce regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated for 26 times; two border villages were hit by the shelling, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

The house, in which during the counterterrorist operation in Nalchik, three persons were killed, was rented by a young man a day before the CTO, the woman-owner of the house has stated. Law enforcement sources have named the casualties.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has made a statement in the context of cancellation of concerts and authorities' interference into the concert activities of groups and performers popular among young people in various Russian regions, including Northern Caucasus.

The issue of the common border section will be resolved by the end of the year, the Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili, has stated during her visit to Azerbaijan, citing the friendly relations of the two countries.

On February 28, district centres of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) held marches, laying of flowers and other events in memory of the victims of the Sumgait pogroms. A documentary film about the pogroms of the Armenian population in Azerbaijan in late 1980s and early 1990s was screened in the central library of the district centre of Gadrut.

A female resident of Makhachkala had joined militants and took part in a robbery and kidnapping of two persons, the Prosecutor's Office (PO) has stated.

In his video appeal, Eldar Iraziev, a comedian actor and a blogger, who is popular in Dagestan, has said that law enforcers put him on the police prevention registration list as an extremist after he had spoken about nightclubs. When commenting on the scandalous performance "Hunting for Men", the blogger called for the introduction of censorship in Dagestan.

During ten years, the murder of Natalia Estemirova has never been effectively investigated, the "Amnesty International" (AI) declares on the birthday of the murdered rights defender who would celebrate her 61st birthday today.