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In Baku, forced migrants demand from the Azerbaijani authorities to solve their housing problems. The authorities admit that 340,000 settlers, who reside in the country, need improvement of their living conditions, and once again have promised to speed up the process.

In Rostov-on-Don, during an interrogation at the trial, Abdurakhman Usmanov, a native of Dagestan, accused of aiding and abetting militants in Syria, claimed that he had signed the protocol with his confession dated with a back date as a result of torture and threats.

The court session on contesting the fine for the absence of the “foreign agent” label in press releases of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) was postponed until March 29 because of the summoning of additional witnesses, said Andrei Rudomakha, the coordinator of the “EcoWatch”.

The participants of the today's meeting of farmers with Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), have learned that the shareholders from the Caucasian region, who had testified in favour of the activists Nikolai Borodin and Elena Petrova, are being brought en masse to investigators, who force them to refuse from their testimonies.

Houses for participants of the resettlement programme in Derbent should be built by local companies, without the Moscow's LLC “Granit”, said the tenants of the emergency houses. Officials assured them that they trust “Granit”, while subcontractors have warned that until they see specific sum of payment for their work in their contracts, they would not start the construction.

Young people in Chechnya are interested in the ideology of the "Islamic State" (IS) because of their families’ plight, discontent with the authorities’ lawlessness and injection of religious dogmas, experts have stated.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced in the territories of the Nazran and Sunzha Districts of Ingushetia, said the operative headquarters of the region.

The total number of passports, issued for establishing the kinship with the persons, who disappeared during the military campaigns in Chechnya, when the remains are discovered, has exceeded 500. The last batch of passports was issued on March 14.

The settlement of the conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh is impossible without the participation of civil society, the participants of the international conference "Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Origins, Peacemaking and Role of Civil Society", held in Baku on March 14, are sure.

The night talks held in the building of the Security Council ended in an agreement about the meeting of the former head of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity with the incumbent President Leonid Tibilov, said Sergey Kharebov, the head of Kokoity’s electoral office. According to his story, if the meeting fails, "the protesters will decide themselves what to do."

Magomed Aushev has identified one of the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, who applied violence to him during the confrontation. However, the suspect refuted Aushev's words, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.

Makhachkala has started catching stray dogs and putting them into a special shelter, the Mayoralty has announced.

Employees of state institutions and students higher schools of Grozny report they were forced to take part in mass subbotniks held in the Chechen capital. Officials of Grozny administration refute these accusations.

An investigator refused to initiate a criminal case in connection with the death of the 36-year-old Nadezhda Degtereva, who committed suicide by jumping from a bridge in Sochi. Praskovya Degtereva, her mother, states that her daughter was brought to suicide by "black realtors."

The initiators of actions in support of the rights of the LGBT community in the regions of Southern Russia continue receiving threats, said Vladimir Klimov, an activist. Still, despite this, after appealing against the received refusals, as he said, they intend to initiate actions in other regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

According to experts, the "Bibliography of the Caucasus", compiled by historian and Caucasus scholar Anatoly Genko and donated to the Kunstkammer, is of great interest to the national science. A daughter of Anatoly Genko stated her father was twice repressed for writing about the problems of the small peoples of the Caucasus.

Investigators try to deprive the parents of the slain Gasanguseinov brothers of the right to rehabilitation of their sons, said the lawyers of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”. The establishment of a human rights organization named after Gasanguseinov brothers was announced to help those who suffered from power agents’ lawlessness.

The Supreme Court (SC) of South Ossetia has upheld the decision of the Central Election Commission (CEC) to refuse to register Eduard Kokoity as a candidate for the presidential election.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports that policemen are suspected of kidnapping in 2010 a resident of Ingushetia and during five days demanding from him to confess to crimes.

The policemen, detained within the case of Vladimir Tskaev’s death, are offered, in exchange for the freedom, to testify against each other, the protesters Vladikavkaz have stated. The investigators’ bias was stressed by the defendant Soslan Sitokhov, who is under recognizance not to leave.