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Today, Andranik Grigoryan, a contract soldier of the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh, has gone over to the Azerbaijani side.

Today, at 1:00 p.m., a regime of counterterrorist operation (CTO) introduced in the morning of March 21 in the territory of the Lenin District of Makhachkala has been cancelled.

In Tbilisi, the rally of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party was attended by participants from all the regions of Georgia. 5000 people came from the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, and each of the regions of Imereti and Adjara sent 2000 participants.

This morning, Rashid Isaev, a resident of Kizilyurt, has been detained by law enforcers during the special operation carried out in his house. According to the detainee's relatives, the man has been brought to the Kizilyurt police station, and his advocate is not allowed visiting him.

On air of the TV programme "Dialogue with People", Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov has recommended persons, who have decided to stop their extremist activities, to report to the authorities the full details of their activities for an objective examination of their situation when applying to the Adaptation Commission of militants.

Defenders of Kislovodsk Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov have filed a cassation to the Presidium of the Stavropol Regional Court against the decision of the Board of Appeals and the resolution of the Predgorny District Court concerning the complaint to recognize unlawful the actions of the deputy head of the Investigating Division of the Investigating Department for the Predgorny District of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Lyubov Azieva, a deputy director of the medical college in the city of Nazran, has resigned after the Security Council made a check of students' complaints that they were not allowed to wear hijabs.

According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), in the course of a special operation conducted in Makhachkala, seven militants were killed, including four men and three women; one SOBR (analogue of Special Weapons Assault Team – SWAT) fighter was wounded.

The organizers of the today's protest action in Tbilisi with a demand of resignation of the government state that it was attended by 50,000 people.

The heroes of the documentary "Chechnya: War without Trace", which tells about gross violation of human rights in the region, may be prosecuted, said the rights defenders questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

wo militants were killed in a special operation carried out in Makhachkala. A fighter of the Special Rapid Response Unit (known as SOBR) was wounded. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee of Russia.

Oleg Polumordvinov, the new City Manager of Astrakhan treats the problems of dilapidated houses and traffic congestion as key areas of his work.

Sergey Kireev, a resident of Volgograd, participating in the hunger strike declared by parents of many children, has asked to deprive him of his parental rights for his two children after a similar statement was filed by their mother Nadezhda. The older children from the Kireev family have filed their parents' statements.

A high-speed train "Lastochka" (Swallow) is now servicing the route Krasnodar – "Roza Khutor" Ski Resort in Sochi. The first run has brought over 200 tourists to the resort today.

Members of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) are recruiting students of North-Caucasian higher educational institutions. This was reported by Sergey Melikov, the Russian President's Envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Advocate of Gadjimurad Omarov, the head of the Dagestani branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, who was beaten in Makhachkala, has filed a complaint to the Makhachkala District Court about the inaction of law enforcers.

The body of Shamil Magomedov, a resident of Buynaksk, detained on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms, has traces of application of violence, said his advocate Selim Magomedov.

The "Caucasian Knot" has taken the 14th place among Russia’s "Top 30 Most Cited Internet Resources" , which was compiled by the research company "Medialogy" at the end of February, which is two positions higher than in January.

The buildings of the ancient mill and the hotel "Volna" have been unreasonably destroyed in Derbent at the background of preparing the city to celebrate its 2000th anniversary, said Professor Murtazali Gadjiev and journalist Svetlana Anokhina.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) believes that the recent act of clemency has failed to solve the problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan; therefore, the AI urged the country's top authorities to release all "prisoners of conscience".