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In Baku, a court session on the case of the rights defender Intigam Aliev was postponed after an altercation that broke out among the victim and the observers present in the courtroom. Before that, the judge dismissed a number of motions put forward by Aliev's defence.

Eight out of the 42 temporary accommodation centres (TACs) for refugees from Ukraine were closed in the Rostov Region, said a source from the regional government.

The Chechen MIA has reported that they have no information about the detention of two more suspects in the Shelkovskoy District.

Today, the Court of Appeal (CoA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has ruled on the case of Azerbaijani citizens Dilkham Askerov and Shakhbaz Guliev, convicted on charges of murder and espionage. The verdict of the first judicial instance was upheld.

As reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD), over the past 24 hours, in different sections of the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, the ceasefire was violated for 34 times.

In the NKR, the family Rubik Gasparyan, who went missing in the conflict zone 22 years ago, has called on the authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan to exchange complete lists of missing persons.

As asserted by Sochi civil society activists and oppositionists, Russia has no state protection for those who struggle with corruption and oppose the authorities; and another proof of that was the murder of the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, a native of Sochi, committed in downtown Moscow.

Gevorg Kostanyan, the General Prosecutor of Armenia, has agreed to meet on March 13 relatives of the Avetisyan family shot and killed in Gyumri.

The Ramzan Kadyrov's statements about the reasons for the detention of persons suspected of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov and their possible motives are not true. This opinion has been expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondents. Meanwhile, the experts believe the very detentions will cause a "serious reputational damage to the leader of Chechnya."

Experts have detected no signs of violence on the body of Arthur Afyan, a soldier of the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri, who was found hanged. This was reported by the Prosecutor of the Shirak Region.

During the period from January 1 to March 8, 2015, the losses of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces made 12 persons, said experts of the Caspian Defence Studies Institute (CDSI).

The staging of the play "The Man's Word" about the friendship of Ramzan Kadyrov with a former militants' commander is an element of propaganda intended to convince the members of the armed underground to lay down arms, said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

On March 2, in Grozny, Zelimkhan Magomadov, a member of the armed underground in Chechnya, surrendered to the law enforcement authorities. According to the law enforcers, Zelimkhan Magomadov was a member of the armed underground since 2009, and in 2010, he was put on the federal wanted list.

The defence has appealed against the ruling of the Basmanny Court of Moscow to arrest Khamzat Bakhaev, Shagit Gubashev and Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, suspected of killing the politician Boris Nemtsov.

Funeral of Boris Nemtsov and detention of natives of Northern Caucasus suspected of his murder; acquittal of former Imam of Kislovodsk in case of Bostanov's murder; suspension of hunger strike of Shushiya villagers of Dagestan, who demand land allocation; start of trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Boston case; launch countdown of 100 days till the start of the European Olympic Games in Baku; start of fan-type hunger strike of parents of many children in Volgograd, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 2-8, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) has forwarded applications to the prosecutor's office of the Karasun District and the administration of Krasnodar, asking them to check the legality of fencing off a shore section of Lake Karasun.

During the week from March 2 to March 8, 2015, at least one person was killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; there were no reports about any wounded persons. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On his page in the social network "Instagram", the head of Chechnya demanded from the Security Council of his republic to find out the reasons for dismissal of Zaur Dadaev, a figurant in the Nemtsov's murder case, from the ranks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The social movement "ReAl" has demanded from the Azerbaijani authorities to fulfil the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case against Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the movement "ReAl", and immediately release him from custody.

In Nalchik, the Balkar community held a rally at the Memorial to the victims of deportation. The rally was also attended by delegations from Ingushetia and Karachay-Cherkessia.