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Because his company failed to pay him salary for two months, the man poured gasoline over himself and set fire to it. With burns, he was hospitalized.

65 years ago, on March 5, 1953, the news of the death of Joseph Stalin became good news for Soviet political prisoners who raised toasts on his birthdays. In that regard, the ban on the screening of the satirical film "The Death of Stalin" looks like a manifestation of censorship, believe rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Ksenia Sobchak and Grigory Yavlinsky, candidates for Russian presidency, sent a petition to the Chechen investigator asking to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, under their personal guarantees.

Law enforcers comb forests in the Tsumada District of Dagestan in search for members of the armed underground.

Today, the all-Russia relay race "Interethnic Exercises 180318" has been started against the background of the Grozny centre cordoned off by law enforcers and the total search of the participants of the action. Students and sports club members reported being forced to take part in the event, during which they had to make 18 exercises of knee bending, shoulder dip or other physical exercises.

At the "Kapustin Yar" test range, located in the Astrakhan Region, military exercises are successfully over, during which militaries destroyed the command post of the conventional enemy with the help of missile complexes.

The authorities have nothing to do with the killing of a stray dog, which was committed by unidentified men, who introduced themselves as Mayoralty employees, the Mayoralty has stated.

Election of the President of Armenia by delegates to the country's parliament; rallies in Boris Nemtsov's memory in Southern Russia; deaths of 25 people in fire in a narcological dispensary in Baku; special operation against militants; detention of the head for the Derbent District of Dagestan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 26-March 4, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The pupils of the Koran recitation school in the Ingush village of Dolakovo, where law enforcers came to conduct a check, became hostages in the conflict of the Muftiate with the republic's authorities, Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the "Mashr" organization, has stated.

During the week from February 26 to March 4, 2018, there were no casualties or wounded persons in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On March 4, the counter-terrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced in the Tsumadin District of Dagestan for the first time since February 4, 2017, when the previous CTO regime was lifted there.

On March 3, employees of state institutions in the cities of Grozny, Argun and Gudermes were forced to participate as spectators in the motor rally with an appeal to come to vote at the presidential election.

Alim Balkarov from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has won a gold medal in the weight category up to 66 kg at the All-Russian Judo Tournament. Turpal Tekpaev from Chechnya did the same in the weight category up to 81 kg.

Today, an unmanned aircraft (drone) of the Armenian Armed Forces tried to make a flight over positions of Azerbaijani army units and was destroyed, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

For the second day, 500 people hold their protest action at the gate of the sugar factory in the village of Agara with a demand to resume factory operation stopped in November 2017. The stop of the factory has paralyzed the life of the village, the trade union has stated.

In the period from February 25 to March 3, Azerbaijani armed forces fired more than 3000 shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

During a search conducted within a case of fraud, foreign currency and more than one million roubles were discovered in an office of the department chief of one of the customs checkpoints in Dagestan, investigators report.

A fine of 10,000 roubles was imposed by the court on Vyacheslav Kalmykov, who together with other residents of Astrakhan came to the ROVD (District Interior Division) building to support detained activists of the Navalny's local office. Like two other fined activists, Vyacheslav Kalmykov insists that their gathering was not a rally.

On March 2, Araik Papikyan, an advocate of Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the movement "100th anniversary without regime", delivered a seven-hour speech at a hearing of the Yerevan court. According to the advocate, prosecutors are trying to hide the mitigating circumstances in the Zhirair Sefilyan's case, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In 2018, in Azerbaijan, the expenses for a trip for the Hajj reached 4150 US dollars. That is 300 US dollars higher than in 2017. For those believers who commit the Hajj for the second or further time, the expenses increase by 535 US dollars.