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At the Rostov-on-Don airport, "black boxes" are found at the place of the crash of a passenger Boeing. After their decryption, it will be possible to reveal the causes of the accident. This was reported by an official from the Ministry of Transport.

South Ossetia held memorial ceremonies in memory of 12 Ossetians killed in the village of Eredvi in March 1991.

In Volgograd, after the protests of city residents, whose cottages in the Dzerzhinsk District of Volgograd are to be demolished by the court's decision, the city authorities have agreed to sign an amicable agreement with the tenants of the cottages.

Last night, a Boeing-737 of the "FlyDubai" airlines on route from Dubai to Rostov-on-Don, has crashed down while landing at the destination airport. After the fall, an explosion and fire occurred aboard. The fire was extinguished.

On March 17, participants of the meeting of the Circassian organizations of Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria voiced a proposal to create a unified interregional organization to be engaged in the protection and development of culture of the Circassian people.

A fire was the cause of the explosion at the filling station (known as AZS), located in Tumanyan Street, near the railway station in Kizlyar.

Today, at the first sermon pronounced by Imam Khamzat Chumakov at the Nasyr-Kort mosque there were much more believers than usual, Musa Barkinkhoev, the chairman of the Union of Young Writers of Ingushetia, who visited the sermon, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to his assessment, there were about seven thousand people at the mosque at the usual attendance of five thousand.

An action in Grozny, dated to the anniversary of annexation of the Crimea by Russia, was held today under reinforced security measures and, according to the Mayoralty, brought together ten thousand people. The interviewed participants said that they had been obliged to be present at this action.

Today, the Nalchik City Court has issued a conditional sentence to Elvira Khakhundokova, accused of aiding the militant leader Yuri Bitsuev. She was released in the courtroom, said Zaur Shomakhov, her advocate.

The extraordinary congress of Muslims of Ingushetia, which is scheduled for March 29, will consider the resignation of Mufti Isa Khamkhoev, said Ulan Evloev, Chairman of the Board of Clans under the republic's administration, adding that the congress of Muslim is convened by the Council of Alims of the Muftiate.

Representatives of the USA, the European Union (EU) and international organizations have positively treated the decree of President of Azerbaijan to pardon and release a group of political prisoners. At the same time, they deem it necessary to release all the remaining activists.

Ivan Shmalyuk, who stood against the demolition of cottages in the Dzerzhinsk District of Volgograd, complained to the police about his detention near the building of the regional administration and his beating.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found a violation of the rights of Azerbaijani rights defender Rasul Jafarov. On March 17, the ECtHR pronounced the decision to recognize the arrest of the rights defender as illegal and obliged the government of Azerbaijan to pay him compensation in the amount exceeding 32,000 euros.

The Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) has demanded to carry out a thorough investigation into the attack in Grozny on Igor Kalyapin, a member of the HRC, and to punish the guilty persons. The actions of the persons who attacked Igor Kalyapin contradict the mentality and customs of the Chechen people, locals claim.

The decree on pardoning issued by the President of Azerbaijan has not solved the problem of political prisoners in the country. Despite the release of a number of activists and journalists, 90 percent of political prisoners stay in prisons, rights defenders report.

In Derbent, a fire at the "airport" mosque occurred on March 17, at about 2 a.m. in the morning. No one was injured. The building of the Salafi mosque in Derbent is completely burned down, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by believers of the mosque. According to them, fire-fighters ignored their requests to extinguish the fire.

Investigators had violated defendants' rights; and the first-instance court had failed to take into account the arguments of the defence, the convicts in Said Amirov's case said in their last plea at consideration of their appeal complaint. They called on the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia to make a verdict of acquittal.

The attack in Grozny on Igor Kalyapin is a continuation of the attack on rights defenders and journalists, committed on March 9 in Ingushetia, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President.

The Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev has signed a decree to pardon 148 persons. The text of the document is posted on the website of the President of Azerbaijan.

Supplying gas to 1600 consumers in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan stopped, because of an improvised explosive device (IED) found at the distribution manifold.