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The US mission to the OSCE has called for the release of rights defender Oyub Titiev and expressed its concern over his continued persecution, the Voice of America Russian Service reports.

The case of the murder of brothers-shepherds Nabi and Gasangusein Gasanguseinov is being falsified, so that those guilty could escape punishment, the casualties' relatives and their advocates have stated at today's press conference in Makhachkala.

Results of the forensic examination, which showed the presence of genetic traces of shepherd brothers killed in the Dagestani village of Goor-Khindakh on submachine guns, were formulated with gross procedural violations and were kept in secret from defence for a long time, reported advocates of the Gasanguseinov family. 

About 500 observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), the "Yabloko" Party, the "Civil Initiative" and Alexei Navalny's office will come to Sochi polling stations to monitor the voting at the Russian presidential election, sources from the opposition have stated today.

As a result thereof, 11 tourists from Russia, Ukraine and Sweden were injured in the Gudauri Ski Resort; seven of them were delivered to Tbilisi by helicopter and reanimobiles, Avtandil Talakvadze, Director of the Centre for Emergencies Coordination and Emergency Care of the Georgia's Ministry of Public Health, has reported.

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.