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Apart from Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadaev, two more persons have been detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the prominent politician Boris Nemtsov.

The version spread today that the traces of the murder of the oppositional leader Boris Nemtsov may lead abroad is not confirmed by the data and sources of the "Caucasian Knot".

Three suspects of kidnapping a man have been detained in the Kirov District of Rostov-on-Don; they forced a man into a car, which was later detained by the police, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

Zaur Dadaev takes his service in the battalion "Sever" (North) in Chechnya; and Anzor Gubashev worked in one of hypermarkets of Moscow suburbs, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed.

Today, a solo picket against the war in Ukraine was held in Volgograd by Yury Trotsenko, a member of the International Union of Anarchists.

The North-Caucasian Expert-Analytical Centre (NCEAC) has begun its work in the regions of Northern Caucasus. Its first sitting was held on March 5-6 in Pyatigorsk.

Mamed Ibragim, an advisor to the chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has reported his detention by the police and accusation of disobedience. According to his story, he was released from the police, but warned about inadmissibility of calling people to take part in oppositional protests.

Two residents of the Caucasus, Anzor Kubashev and Zaur Dadaev, have been detained under the murder case of the politician Boris Nemtsov, said Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB).

Anna Tkachova, a resident of Sochi, said that she received traumas, when the ceiling of her flat collapsed. The flat is in the house in Vorovsky Street, which has been recognized as unfit for residence. The court had obliged the city Mayoralty to provide Tkachova and her minor daughter with a comfortable housing, but the Mayoralty has filed an appeal.

Oleg Khlyupin, a Volgograd resident, was arrested by the authorities of Ukraine in the area of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO), Mikhail Yasin-Panin, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "ROD", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The topic of the Red Zone Festival, held in Oslo on March 3-8, is the genocide against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that at night on February 24, an explosion occurred on the dam in the settlement of Chernorechie in Grozny, which killed three people. None of them was known as a militant. After the incident, it became known that two residents of the nearby village of Gvardeiskoe were detained.

During the motor rally organized by the "Pre-Parliament" in the NKR, a number of policemen grossly violated the discipline; ten of them will be dismissed.

At night on March 6, the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) killed seven Azerbaijani soldiers, who were trying to cross the border, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

The court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sentenced Asker Abidov, an employee of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Chegem ROVD (District Interior Division) to four years of imprisonment for beating adolescents.

Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has extended for other two months – until May 24 – the detention of the journalist Khadija Ismayilova. Her defence treats this decision illegal and intends to appeal against it.

Forty persons, who claimed at different times of being harassed by power agents, have signed an open letter in support of the Committee against Torture (CaT); there are nine residents of Chechnya among them.

Today, in Azerbaijan, at the trial of Siraj Kerimli, recognized by the international human rights organization Amnesty International as "prisoner of conscience", the court listened to testimonies of two defence witnesses.

The Security Council of Ingushetia is checking, jointly with the Ministry of Public Health (MPH), the information that teachers of the medical college in Nazran prohibit female students to wear hijabs. According to preliminary data of the head of the MPH, none of the questioned students confirmed the presence of any conflicts.

The total number of citizens of Ukraine staying now in the Volgograd Region is not more than 20,000; of them about a half has have applied for legal status in the territory Russia. Despite the escalation of conflict in Donbas in late 2014, in early 2015, there was no mass inflow of citizens from Ukraine, said the local department of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS).