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The Council of Imams of Ingushetia, which unites representatives of the 18 Muslim communities, which are not under the republic’s Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM), has stated an aggravation of the situation in the region, because of the pressure on preachers Isa Tsechoev and Khamzat Chumakov.

During the week from March 6 to March 12, 2017, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, one person was injured; there was no information about any casualties. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

International observers, who monitored parliamentary elections of Abkhazia, highlighted such problems as inadaptability of polling stations for people with disabilities, illegal additional voters’ lists and finger-marking. At one of the polling stations in Sukhumi, two voters refused to vote after registration, being outraged by the need to mark fingers.

Oksana Sevastidi, a resident of Sochi, who had been convicted for sending an SMS-message to Georgia about the transportation of military equipment, has been released from the Moscow SIZO (pre-trial prison) “Lefortovo”.

As a result of the disorders in Batumi, 18 protesters and 15 policemen suffered, the Minister of Public Health of Adjara has reported.

A rally in Sochi has demanded to stop erecting a high-rise building on the place of a two-story one. A petition with a demand to preserve the favourable habitat was signed by 300 people, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

A police outfit was attacked in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan; one policeman was wounded and hospitalized.

The Karabakh conflict has no military solution; and its parties should mark the anniversary of the April 2016 battles not at the frontline, but at the negotiation table, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group have stated at today’s press conference in Baku.

Today, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan perished because of shelling from the Armenian side, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.

On the first day of the triennial, the "Garage" museum of contemporary art, where works of 68 painters, including from Southern of Russia, are presented, was visited by 3000 people.

In their foreign policy pre-election programmes, the electoral blocs "Elk" and "Tsarukyan", as well as the "Free Democrats" Party, stress the need to quit the subordinate position in relations with Russia.

On March 10, President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on releasing Oleg Esayan from the post of Armenia's extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to Russia, a source from the presidential administration told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On March 14, the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Dagestan plans a press conference on the case of the murder of Gasanguseinov brothers in the village of Goor-Khindakh.

Local journalists believe that Eduard Kokoity will not be able to cancel at court the decision of the Central Election Commission (CEC) to reject his registration as a presidential candidate.

On March 10, the former investigator Rufat Safarov, who is serving his sentence on the bribe-taking case, told at the meeting with his mother that he had been again placed into the dungeon (punishment cell) on March 6-9.

Prior to considering the lawsuit lodged by the Dagestani lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova with a demand to compensate the harm caused to her by illegal criminal prosecution, the prosecutor's office notified the court that the decision to stop Magomedova's case was cancelled.

The persons killed during the today's special operation in Azerbaijan have been identified as Azer Guseinov and Ali Islamov; weapons and explosives were found on them, the State Security Service (SSS) has announced.

Notifications about the above actions have been submitted to the Department for Interaction with Civil Society Institutes of Kabardino-Balkaria and the Mayoralty of Cherkessk, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the fine of 300,000 roubles imposed on the International Historical-Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society "Memorial" for its refusing to get registered as a "foreign agent".

Rauf Mirkadyrov, who had applied to the government of Switzerland for political asylum, was granted the status of political refugee, the journalist himself has stated.