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The information about the plans to hold rallies in support of Ramzan Kadyrov on March 6 has nothing to do with reality, said Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Parliament of Chechnya. Earlier, Kadyrov confirmed that there were proposals in the republic to hold rallies, but he publicly asked to abandon the idea.

Members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) were informed about the riots in SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar by the mother of one of the minors. According to the woman, her 17-year-old son, who is sight-impaired from childhood, was attacked.

Most registered candidates for the Gorodische City Duma of the Volgograd Region have submitted incomplete sets of documents to the territorial election commission (TEC), said Anatoly Polunin, a rejected candidate nominated by the Party of People's Freedom (known as PARNAS).

Dagestan Department of the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service (AMS) was addressed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) with a complaint against some building company, which used images of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in its ads.

The action in support of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, with the participation of public employees has been moved from February 28 to March 6, locals report. By this sort of rallies, Kadyrov wants to show Moscow the absence of alternatives for the post Chechnya head, Ruslan Martagov, a political analyst, believes.

The independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has been recognized by the House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia. The NKR treats it as a most important political step.

During a search, power agents planted extremist literature into the house of Gadji Ramazanov, a resident of Makhachkala, his relatives assert.

Cadet Aikaz Barsegyan was strangled; he did not commit suicide, a forensic expert Vigen Adamyan has stated today at the court session in Armenia.

After the court has postponed her last plea at the trial till March 9, the Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko announced a "dry" hunger strike.

Officials from Chechen public agencies and chiefs of the budgetary organizations have received a notification on the preparation for the rally in support of Ramzan Kadyrov, the "Caucasian Knot" has been reported by informed sources.

During the last 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have fired over 750 shots at Karabakh positions, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated today. In its turn, the MoD of Azerbaijan has reported 116 cases of ceasefire violation on the contact line within the same period.

The reduction by 50% of the cost of houses built around the Olympic Park will attract buyers to the auction. This was reported by Anatoly Pakhomov, Mayor of Sochi.

Ramzan Kadyrov will be appointed the acting head of the Chechen Republic until the end of the term of office and will receive from Vladimir Putin the permission to take part in the direct election of the Chechen leader, the "RBC" reported on March 2 with reference to at once three sources close to the Kremlin and the Chechen authorities.

The Court of Vienna has released on bail in the amount of 100,000 euros Aslan Gagiev, a native of North Ossetia, suspected in Russia of organizing a series of resonant murders.

During his visit to Azerbaijan, Pedro Agramunt, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has announced the need for execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the cases of sentenced activists Ilgar Mamedov and Tofiq Yagublu.

During the preparation of Volgograd to the FIFA World Cup, the city plans to build a number of key transport routes, including a road through the city along the Volga River, and to repair the road to the airport. Some sections of "guest routes" inside the city have already been repaired. The repair works were completed in the past year; however, according to NGO activists and motorists, new potholes have already appeared on the repaired roads.

According to local residents, arrests in the Azerbaijani village of Nardaran near Baku were undertaken after religious graffiti appeared in the village. In total, 32 persons were detained. The police refute the information about arrests.

The Prosecutor's Office finds the guilt of the Ukrainian pilots Nadezhda Savchenko of involvement in the murder of two VGTRK (All-Russian TV and Radio Company) employees near Lugansk and illegal border crossing proved. The state prosecutor has demanded 23 years of imprisonment for her.

In Makhachkala, nine persons were taken to the police on suspicion of involvement in the "Hizb ut-Tahrir", recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization, law enforcement sources have reported today.

Today, residents of four villages of the Derbent District told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the influence of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime on their everyday life. In three villages, no power agents at all were noticed; and near the village of Aglobi, they are inspecting cars, but do not enter the village.