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The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has sent to Chechnya the complaint filed by Mikhail Kasyanov and Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr, the leaders of the "PARNAS" Party, with a request to launch an investigation into the post on the Ramzan Kadyrov's Instagram page, which the oppositionists treated as a death threat.

Alvi Karimov, the spokesman for Ramzan Kadyrov, has appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a request to consider the issue of institution of criminal proceedings against Ilya Yashin in connection with the publication of his report on the situation in Chechnya and his statements made in the course of presentations.

The journalists, injured in an attack on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia, took part in investigative actions and went home. One of the journalists, Øystein Windstad, said he was going to visit Russia again to continue investigation into the circumstances of the deaths of two Chechen residents.

Attacks on journalists and rights defenders on Ingush-Chechen border; explosion at a mosque in Nazran injuring four persons; death of two suspected militants in the CTO in Dagestan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 7-13, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the past year of 2015, the Police of Nagorno-Karabakh registered eight complaints filed by women about cases of violence of physical, psychological or sexual nature. This is stated in a report published on the official website of the Police of Nagorno-Karabakh. In particular, the report states that there was a slight increase in the number of crimes against women, including crimes against sexual integrity. However, the number of such crimes remains low.

During the week of March 7-13, 2016, six persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, two persons were killed, and four others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that Abu Umar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili), a native of Georgia, one of the leaders of the terrorist grouping "Islamic State" (IS), has been in a state of clinical death for several days already.

Mikhail Kasyanov, Chairman of the "PARNAS" Party, has received from the FSB a response to his request to launch an investigation concerning the post on Ramzan Kadyrov's page on Instagram. The opposition politician treated the above post as a death threat. According to the response received from the FSB, the post does not contain evidence of any illegal actions.

Ukrainian physicians were not able to visit Nadezhda Savchenko, accused of involvement in the murder of two journalists not far from Lugansk, and they returned to Ukraine. This was reported by advocate Nikolai Polozov.

The men, killed on March 11 in a shootout with law enforcers during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) near the Dagestani village of Orota, have been preliminary identified as Magomed Gadjimagomedov and Sabir Rashidov. This was reported by the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

When journalists and rights defenders were attacked in Ingushetia, the criminals robbed them and seized from them 1000 euros and 250 US dollars. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

The Chechen authorities try to establish feudal control over the society by adopting a principle of collective responsibility under the guise of "spiritual and moral certification". This opinion was expressed by rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The legal regime of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Khunzakh District was cancelled today at 8:30 p.m. Moscow time.

The two persons, killed in a special operation in the Khunzakh District of Dagestan, had been involved in attacks on law enforcers and in murders in 2014 of civilians and the Imam of the mosque of the village of Gotsatl, said the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Investigators in Ingushetia have added to the case of beating up journalists and rights defenders in the Sunzha District the article about a group armed attack in order to steal property.

The car blown up near the mosque in Nasyr-Kort belonged to a native of Dagestan, but in recent time it was used by proxy by another person, said a law enforcement source from Ingushetia.

Vitaly Zubenko, an advocate of Elizaveta Alieva, has filed a complaint against the investigators' refusal to inform about the progress of the inquiry into the case initiated after the disappearance of her sister Marem in Ingushetia.

Election of the Mufti of North Ossetia is scheduled for March 16. During the 6 years that the republic's Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) is headed Khadjimurat Gatsalov, the Muftiate failed to establish due relationships with power agents, said the Mufti.

Residents of the neighbourhood Maly Akhun have complained to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about the construction within specially protected area of recreational purpose.

At the court session on the case of Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh in Chechnya, which the journalists attacked in Ingushetia were going to cover, Alexander Cherkasov, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", was questioned.