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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.

In Dagestan, Igor Mutsenik, a 35-year-old Senior Lieutenant of the Krasnoyarsk Police, was killed as a result of the bombing of a motor convoy in the area of the "Uytash" Airport. Evgeny Guva, Lieutenant Colonel of Internal Troops, and Master Sergeant Sergey Popov were injured. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The "Legal Initiative" has filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) a complaint from Inal Berov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria. He complains being tortured during his detention by law enforcers in March 2012. According to Inal Berov's father, although four years have already passed since those events, the health state of his son is far from good.

After Ruzanna Egnukyan, an activist of the "Armenian Women's Front", had been injured in a clash with the police, her husband Karo Egnukyan has appealed to the law enforcement bodies.

Two automobiles have been blown up near the "Uytash" Airport in Dagestan; there are victims of the accident.

Since March 27, Chechnya is holding mass subbotniks (voluntary Saturday clean-ups); and the all-republic clean-up will be held on April 1-30. State servants in Grozny complain about being forced to participate in subbotniks.

The Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko, sentenced to 22 years in colony for the alleged murder of Russian journalists, handed over a letter that announced the start of a new dry hunger strike, said Mark Feigin, her advocate.

Four activists have held solo pickets in Volgograd: they came in turn with their posters to the building of the Regional Committee for Affairs of Territorial Formations.

The destruction of militants' houses and the pressure on their relatives sometimes leads to radicalization of many people, believes Igor Barinov, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Nationalities' Matters. His comment was made shortly after Putin's remark made during Ramzan Kadyrov's appointment the head of Chechnya about the need for enforcement of Russian laws in the Chechnya, where authorities openly threatened relatives of members of the armed underground.

The report presented today to MPs by Levan Izoriya, Deputy Head of the State Security Service of Georgia (SSSG), notes that during the last year the Service took steps to prevent citizens' departure to Syria and Iraq.

Nadezhda Savchenko, a citizen of Ukraine, convicted to 22 years in colony, may be exchanged for a group of Russians, in particular, for Victor But and Konstantin Yaroshenko, who are serving their terms in the USA, the "Interfax" has reported with reference to its source. Savchenko's advocate believes this decision to be a way out of the situation.

The ranks of Middle East terrorist organizations have been replenished by 22 residents of Adygea. Law enforcement bodies have stopped the fact of recruiting into the "Islamic State' (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in the territory of Russia, in the correctional colony in Adygea, said Oleg Seleznyov, the head of the republic's Department of the Russia's Federal Security Bureau (FSB).

Sergey Melikov, the Russian President's Plenipotentiary Representative in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has called on rectors of local higher schools to draft new forms of education and upbringing work with students to counteract recruiters of international terrorist organizations.

The parishioners, delivered from the Salafi mosque in Hungarian Warriors Street to the police, have been released. In total, power agents detained no more than 20 people, said a mosque-goer. A police source has explained that operative agents carried out their searching operations in the area of the mosque.

During the week from March 21 to March 27, 2016, two persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus: one perished and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Despite the repression, the Azerbaijani civil society continues struggling for democracy, Intigam Aliev, an Azerbaijani rights defender, has stated after his release from colony.

Robert Bagaev, a resident of North Ossetia, who was a member of Aslan Gagiev's grouping, has been convicted by the Moscow Regional Court for banditry, an attempted murder, killing of several citizens, illegal deprivation of freedom, and illegal arms circulation.

Today, on the Day of Revival of the Balkar Nation, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is hosting festive events, exhibitions and a motor rally. Villagers of Khasanya have stated the need to preserve the memory of the victims of the Balkars' deportation.

Today, the working group, which should inspect, within the coming month, all the districts of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as "Kuban" by the name of the main river), from where farmers' complaints has been received, has held its first sitting.

At the end of March, the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Dagestan will be closed. After that, in Northern Caucasus, the Red Cross offices will remain only in Nalchik and Grozny.