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On March 5, at the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of committing a terror act during the Boston Marathon in April 2013, 11 witnesses for prosecution were questioned. Two of them said that they had never seen him before; and one recollected his brother Tamerlan.

Six women-villagers of Shushiya, Novolak District of Dagestan, have suspended their hunger strike, which was launched with a demand to allocate land plots to them. They agreed to define their further actions after a new decision of the Kumtorkalin Court on the lawsuit of the village administration, asking to cancel the registration of the lease contract on the disputed land plots.

The blood donor action "Blood remembers everything!" in memory of victims of deportation of Balkar nationals was held today in the cities of Karachaevsk and Cherkessk in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). 85 people gave their blood.

The lawyer Alexander Popkov has appealed against the arrest of the Krasnodar activist Leonid Martynyuk to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

A militant-participant in the hostage-taking in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre has been captured in the Crimea, said the Border-Guarding Service of the FSB.

The residents of Chechnya Zavaraev, Khalukaev and Parmazov, who died from explosion on the dam, were not members of the armed underground, said a local law enforcement source.

The life-long convicts from South Ossetia, kept in Gldani Prison, have stopped their hunger strike after receiving a promise from officials of the Georgian presidential administration to bring their cases for consideration of the Parliament.

The Moscow Bureau of Interpol has disseminated in its international network a request for the arrest of Kuban ecologist Suren Gazaryan. This was reported by his advocate Alexander Popkov.

Tonight, in Volgograd, unidentified persons used a grenade to blow up an automatic teller machine (ATM) in a bank building. No one was injured, and criminal failed to steal money. This is the second incident of such type during recent 10 days.

Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, accused of the murder of an Armenian family in Gyumri is to undergo a scheduled forensic psychiatric examination. The examination results can be reported in two weeks.

In Derbent, Nasur Osmanov, the chief physician of the Derbent district polyclinic, was killed near his house.

In his letters to relatives, Pyotr Parpulov, a resident of Sochi, accused of treason, has reported the violation of his rights at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). According to Pyotr Parpulov's daughter, her father has described his complaint about the living conditions and medical care.

At the first court session held on March 4 in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of committing a terror act during the Boston Marathon in April 2013, the court has questioned six witnesses for the prosecution. This was reported from the courtroom by Fatima Tlisova, a journalist of the "Voice of America".

All the residents of the settlement of Semender in the Kirov District of Makhachkala, detained on March 3, are back at large, said the police.

The women-participants of the hunger strike in the Dagestani village of Shushiya report the worsening of their health status and state their readiness to stop their protest against guarantees of fulfilment of their demands.

The 26-year-old Artyom Alkhasov, whose kidnapping was reported by his relatives, was detained by policemen of the Sovietskiy ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, said the young man's advocate.

Today, 100 days before the start of the European Olympic Games in Baku, international human rights organizations have called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release political prisoners; and the international community – to influence the official Baku in this issue.

The man who shelled a police car in the Babayurt District of Dagestan, and who was killed by return fire, has been identified as Eldar Khaidarbekov, 42, a native of the Khasavyurt District.

The Magistrate Court of the Krasnooktyabrskiy District of Volgograd has fined the Youth Consulting and Training Centre by 300,000 roubles for its activities without getting registered as a "foreign agent". Activists of the non-profit organization (NPO) intend to appeal against the imposed fine.

The fact of identification of Oleg Shalyapin among those killed in a special operation in Dagestani Kizilyurt District indicates a growing number of Slavs among militants in Northern Caucasus, said the experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".