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Participants of the picket in defence of the 31st Article of the Constitution spoke in support of political prisoners, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The census, conducted by activists of the public organization "Ochag" (Hearth) aims to study the situation with repatriate families in order to provide those in need with targeted help. Their main problem is the issue of employment, activists report.

Their discontent was caused by policemen's raids in Khasavyurt and confiscations of Turkish-made foodstuffs and textile goods.

The writer Akram Aylisli, who was detained at the Baku Airport, believes that a criminal case is being falsified against him; and it has to do with the unwillingness of the Azerbaijani authorities to admit his participation in the international literary festival.

Nariman Bashirov, detained on suspicion of plotting the bomb attack on the motor convoy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) on the Federal Highway "Kavkaz" in Dagestan, had been wanted in connection with the shelling of policemen in April 2014.

Two men found in a car blown up in the Tabasaran District of Dagestan will be identified with the help of an expertise. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

According to the statement of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization, a bombing of a police car in the Tabasaran District of Dagestan was organized by the IS unit in Northern Caucasus.

Darya Polyudova, who was found by the Krasnodar court guilty of inciting separatism and extremism, was prosecuted for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression. This was stated by the "Amnesty International" (AI). The human rights organization has recognized Darya Polyudova a "prisoner of conscience".

In the town of Dagestani Lights, law enforcers have detained one of the men suspected of bombing a motor convoy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) on the highway "Kavkaz" in Dagestan. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Azerbaijan marks the day of March 31 as "Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis". The day is to remind the people of the events of late March 1918, when, according to the Azerbaijani version of the events, the armed formations of the Armenian nationalist "Dashnaktsutyun" Party, with the support of Bolshevik leaders of the Baku Council, committed massacres and pogroms among peaceful Azerbaijani civilians.

At the press conference held in Yerevan on March 30, Mikhael Ambartsumyan, the first deputy chief of the Investigating Department of the National Security Service of Armenia, people involved as defendants in the case against an armed grouping were plotting attacks against a number of governmental and administrative buildings in Armenia.

The examination of wreckage of the crashed Boeing has revealed no signs of explosive substances, the "Interfax" reports with reference to a source familiar with the progress of the investigation into the plane crash.

This morning, at the Baku Airport, before the flight to Frankfurt, Akram Aylisli, an Azeri writer and the author of the novel "The Stone Dreams" about the Karabakh conflict, was detained by border guards, who handed him over to policemen. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said that the cause of detention was the writer's creation a conflict situation at the airport.

When blowing up the motor convoy in Dagestan, the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) used the experience of "Imarat Kavkaz", said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The 33-year-old Police Major Gasan Mutalibov, who worked as a district policeman, was killed by a car explosion triggered in the Tabasaran District of Dagestan, the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly reports. The explosion, according to the "Interfax", occurred near the checkpoint.

According to law enforcers, the bomb attack on the convoy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) on the Federal Highway "Kavkaz" in Dagestan was committed by Khushet militants. The power of the blast was eight kilos of TNT (trotyl) equivalent.

Darya Polyudova will leave for colony in three weeks, said her advocate Andrei Sabinin. According to his story, the defence intends to file a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Today, a car of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has been blown up during a chase in the area of the village of Sirtich of the Tabasaran District. One policeman was killed, and another one was injured.

In Istanbul, during the first final match of the European Confederation Cup (ECB), fans of the "Galatasaray" volleyball team threw garbage to players of the guest team, and the Turkish coach showed the Russian players an insulting gesture. This was reported by Tatiana Kosheleva, a player of the Krasnodar "Dynamo" volleyball team.

On March 29, the undermining of police cars in Dagestan was the fourth incident during seven months, the responsibility for which was taken by the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS). Those attacks killed at least five persons, mostly law enforcers.