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On March 30, members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited Karabakh soldier Andranik Grigoryan in Azerbaijan and handed his letter over to his family members. In this letter, the soldier has declared his intention to return to his homeland.

Residents of Northern Caucasus are deprived of basic constitutional rights; while the authorities are seeking to impose control over human rights organizations, said the board member of the "Caucasian Forum", who met in Grozny on March 31.

The international organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) has condemned the refusal of the authorities of Azerbaijan to let the rights defender Georgy Gogiya to the country. This is the first case of refusal to let a HRW's representative to Azerbaijan, the organization has emphasized.

Today, at the Moscow City Court (MCC) Zaur Dadaev has refuted his earlier testimony and declared his innocence in the murder of a Russian politician Boris Nemtsov.

Today, in Armenia, Rudik Khachatryan, suspected of stabbing Grachya Mirzoyan, a member of the public initiative "Pre-Parliament", has come to the police to make a confession. This was reported by the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is to consider 11 complaints from Chechen and Ingush natives, who are serving their sentences in Russian prisons. The violations of the prisoners' rights were reported by the Committee "Civil Assistance".

Zaur Dadaev, a defendant in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, does not cooperate with investigators. This has been stated by his advocate, who denied the report made by an investigator of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) stating that Zaur Dadaev had made a confession.

According to Dagestani journalists, after the verdict against the persons who committed the murder of journalist Abdulmalik Akhmedilov has been announced, the main challenge is to reveal the persons who ordered the crime.

On March 31, Azerbaijan marked the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis. The country paid tribute to the victims of the events occurred in the spring of 1918. According to the Baku authorities, in 1918, the armed forces of the "Dashnaktsutyun" Nationalist Party, supported by leaders of the Baku Soviet, committed mass killings and pogroms of civilians. The total number of victims was more than 30,000 people. On March 26, 1998, Geidar Aliev, the then Azerbaijani President, issued a decree to declare March 31 the Day of Azerbaijanis' Genocide.

The Moscow Regional Court has scheduled for April 8 the consideration of the verdict announced by the jury in the case against the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN). Advocates of the defendants have said that they were generally satisfied with the verdict.

Shakhban Gasanov, who has been killed in Khasavyurt, was wounded during a shootout with policemen that occurred on March 25. This was reported by a source from the Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Division).

Sochi residents complain about the poor condition and misuse of the cottage settlement built in 2011 for Olympic resettlers. The Sochi lawyer Rafael Khachaturov believes that the situation in Sochi should be examined by a public commission.

Shakhban Gasanov, who had sworn to the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization, was killed during the storming of a house in Khasavyurt, said the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The number of Russia's residents, who express trust in the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, has increased by 22% as compared with 2006, said the "Levada-Centre".

An activist Darya Polyudova, accused of inciting extremism, has applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against her illegal prosecution, in her opinion, and long detention in custody in Krasnodar.

The natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia, who are exposed to acts of violence in Russian prisons, often fall victim to aggression of participants of Chechen Wars. This was announced today in Moscow by the Committee "Civil Assistance" during presentation of its report on the outcomes of the project.

As stated by the "Committee against Torture", the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has done nothing in effect to check the complaints of the figurants in the Nemtsov's murder case about law enforcers' unlawful physical assault on them.

Today, the Kirsanov District Court of the Tambov Region has started the consideration of the motion on conditional early relief (CER) of Evgeny Vitishko, a Krasnodar ecologist. According to an official from the penal colony, the ecologist committed eight violations, seven disciplinary sanctions were imposed against him, and thus, the penal colony stands against his earlier release.

All the children of Boris Nemtsov officially asked investigators to recognize them victims in the case of the murder of the politician. In this regard, the investigators questioned Ekaterina Odintsova, a former common-law wife of Boris Nemtsov, and his son Anton.

The defence of the persons sentenced in the case of the murder of journalist Abdulmalik Akhmedilov has announced the intention to challenge the verdict in the nearest future.