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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged the Russian authorities to pay 19,500 euros in compensation for moral damage to human rights defender Oleg Orlov and three journalists kidnapped in Ingushetia in 2007.

The pogroms in Batumi were arranged by participants of the organized rally, the eyewitnesses, political analysts and a journalist, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", assert. According to their story, the demands were put forward by the participants of the first, spontaneous wave of protest, which was provoked by the police’s actions.

Starting from March 10, family members of Apti Edaev, a kidnapped resident of Urus-Martan, cannot reveal his whereabouts. According to local residents, the man was brought away from a mourning meeting by people dressed in uniform.

In the course of the incident at the mixed martial arts (MMA) championship among amateurs in Dagestan, no fist blows and bodily injuries were fixed, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the same time, according to the president of the MMA Federation of Dagestan, the athlete Aziz Djumaniyazov was disqualified for one year because of the incident in the ring.

In Rostov-on-Don, the court has announced the results of an investigation into the fact of detection of a haematoma on the body of Abdusalam Ramazanov, a native of the Tsuntina District of Dagestan, accused of attempting to join militants in Syria.

On March 13, the Dyakov family, evicted in the afternoon out of their municipal apartment, in the evening moved into it again. The parents of three children said that they have nowhere to go. Now, the court will have to reconsider the Mayoralty’s about their eviction, said the advocate Mikhail Okhrimenko.

At the Friday namaz (prayer) in the village of Verkhnie Achaluki, officials of the Muftiate announced to the mosque visitors that the Imam would leave his post, and another Imam was appointed instead. Dissatisfied believers demanded to cancel the decision, and agreed at the rally on March 12 with the SAM (Muftiate) officials that the new candidature would be agreed with them.

After the shelling of the police outfit in the Khasavyurt District, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was not introduced, since the involvement of militants in the shelling has not been established. The policeman received a tangential wound, said a law enforcement source.

Immediately after lodging a notification about a march in support of the rights of the LGBT community in Nalchik, initiators began receiving threats of murder, said Vladimir Klimov, one of the activists.

The action in Tskhinvali in support of Eduard Kokoity is on against the statement of his election office about refusal to hold rallies. Protesters came to the building of the Supreme Court (SC). On March 14, the SC plans to consider Kokoity's application on the refusal to register him as a presidential candidate.

Villagers of Nizhni Cherek in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have appealed to rights defenders asking to help to receive their land shares.

Mass detentions of minors during power agents’ raids after the attacks on policemen in Grozny indicate that the "Syrian issue" is rapidly increasing its audience among young Chechens, the “Novaya Gazeta” reports.

The escalation of tension in the society, caused by the petition on renaming Ingushetia into Alania is of no need for federal or local authorities; but the situation may aggravate, believe the political analysts, a rights defender and a journalists, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Parliamentary elections in Abkhazia; street disorders in Batumi; start of debates at the trial on terror act in Dubrovka; pardoning of woman from Sochi, earlier recognized to be a political prisoner; Azerbaijan's exit from "Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative"; direction of case of deputy head of Cherkessk police to city court for the third time, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus on March 6-12, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

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.