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In Grozny, school employees are instructed to stay at polling stations on March 18 until the completion of the voting, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Petimat, a teacher of the school in Grozny.

Today, in Astrakhan, the police have detained two activists who were distributing leaflets with an appeal to participate in the action "Voters' Strike".

Today, Kazbek Bachaev and Ruslan Taimyskhanov have been found guilty of sending money to the militants of the "Islamic State" (IS) and the "Imarat Kavkaz", both recognized as terrorist organizations and banned in Russia by the court, at war in Syria and sentenced to nine and eight years of imprisonment, the Court reports.

The debt of the Izberbash Radio Plant named after Pleshakov amounts to about 60 million roubles, and wage arrears comprised the greatest part of the debt, announced Vladimir Vasiliev, the acting leader of Dagestan.

On March 15, advocate Kheda Ibrieva managed to visit Magomed Khazbiev who went on a hunger strike in the Karabulak SIZO (pre-trial prison).

On March 15, more than one hundred ski instructors and scouts of mountain motorized rifle formations of the Southern Military District started to take part in skiing special training at the Terskol training ground in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Dagestan needs more than 2000 school teachers, and the lack of places in educational institutions still remains a problem, the acting Dagestani leader, Vladimir Vasiliev, has stated.

Out of fifteen reports of violations committed during the presidential election campaign in the republics of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), eight entered the project "Election Violations Map" from Dagestan.

According to the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", the assets of natives of Dagestan, included in the list of the richest people in Russia by the Forbes, exceed the budget of the republic by 17 times.

Today, 12 Georgian opposition parties have asked Giorgi Kvirikashvili, the Prime Minister, to appear at the Parliament and explain his statement about the country's readiness for dialogue with the authorities of Russia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Today, acting Dagestani leader Vladimir Vasiliev has announced that Ibragim Kazibekov, Acting Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services for Dagestan, is put on the wanted list.

The chief of the Investigating Department has cancelled a decision to refuse to institute a criminal case, made after an investigation into a complaint filed by rights defender Oyub Titiev about the drugs planted on him by law enforcers. This has been reported today by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Members of the OSCE mission, who have carried out monitoring today at the contact line of the armed forces, have not registered any violations of the ceasefire, the parties to the Karabakh conflict report. The Azerbaijani side did not let observers enter its front lines, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) states.

On March 14, Bako Sahakyan, President of Nagorno-Karabakh, who stayed in Washington with a visit, handed over awards to a group of US congressmen and senators. Official Baku expressed its protest in connection with the above.

On March 14, the Chief Department for the Rostov Region of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) announced the institution of a criminal case under Article "A knowingly false report on a terror act" against a 22-year-old man detained in Rostov-on-Don.

On March 14, the law enforcement bodies lifted the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime introduced a year ago in the Khasavyurt, Kazbek and Kizilyurt Districts.

Today, a source of the "Kommersant" close to investigators has reported that since 2014, the FSB had been wiretapping phone calls of members of the Dagestani government, including Abdusamad Gamidov.

On March 14, Khedy Ibrieva, an advocate of Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, could not visit her client, kept in the SIZO-1 of Karabulak.

Dalia Zaviatskene has held a solo picket in central Gelendjik, demanding to cancel the decision to demolish her house, and resignation of the city head. She said that policemen threatened to arrest her in case of continuing her pickets.

The counter-terrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the Tsumada District of Dagestan on March 4, has been cancelled today, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has stated.