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Four residents of the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia, including Imam Ayuf Borchashvili, have been sentenced to terms from one to 14 years in prison for recruiting militants and belonging to the terrorist "Islamic State" (IS).

The court has sentenced Ramzan Tershiev, a resident of the Vedeno District of Chechnya, to two years in a colony-settlement for participating in an illegal armed formation (IAF).

Appointment of Vyacheslav Bitarov the acting head of North-Ossetia; debate in the Donetsk court in case against Nadezhda Savchenko; action in memory of the people killed during riots in Yerevan on March 1-2, 2008; failed rally in support of Ramzan Kadyrov in Grozny; unidentified criminals' attack on deputies of the Buynaksk City Council; mass poisoning of children of a kindergarten in a village in Kabardino-Balkaria, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 29-March 6, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Giorgi Papuashvili, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court (CC) of Georgia, asserts that his ill-wishers plan to publish photos and videos against him.

Sochi has launched a trial of the death of a three-year girl who drowned in the water park "Mountain Beach" on July 19, 2015. The female-employee, who is charged under the case, has declared that the responsibility for the safe rest in the water park was on the resort managers, who have disappeared.

During the week from February 29 to March 6, 2016, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus no information about casualties and victims was recorded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The detainee is a native of Ingushetia and studies at one of Sochi universities.

Nemat Panakhly, the leader of the National Statehood Party, who is serving his term at the Gobustan closed prison, has been transferred to the medical facility of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice (MoJ). His wife fears for his health condition.

In the course of a charity action, 200 large families in more than 20 settlements of Ingushetia received foodstuffs from an anonymous donator.

Family members of Angelina Sokolskaya from Sochi have complained about the city Mayoralty to the Prosecutor's Office. They live in a dilapidated house, built 110 years ago, and assert that the Mayoralty fails to fulfil the resolution "on resettling residents from shabby houses into comfortable housing."

Relatives and the advocate of Magomed Akhmeddibirov, a resident of the Buynaksk District of Dagestan, who was arrested for 10 days for an administrative offense, can not establish his whereabouts after the expiry of the arrest term.

Chechen authorities have abandoned the idea to hold on March 6 a large-scale rally in support of Ramzan Kadyrov in Grozny, although they had initially planned the action, and students were obliged to visit it, representatives of educational institutions of the republic told the "Caucasian Knot".

The Chechen police had to prevent a fight in a military unit of Borzoi; while the absence of any data that the incident is being investigated by the military prosecutor's office indicates the unwillingness of the Chechen authorities to openly discuss the background of the incident, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Zaira Alieva from the village of Chermen has left the territory of the hospital in Nazran, and since that time, her whereabouts is unknown. This was reported on March 4 by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

A free-of-charge mobile guide that runs through the izi.TRAVEL has been designed for the Museum of History of World's Cultures and Religions of Derbent and comprises nine tours.

In Volgograd, the local branch of the "Molodaya Gvardiya of Edinaya Rossiya" (Young Guard of United Russia) Party has requested rectors of higher educational institutions and student leaders to provide the information about their political views, as well as their mobile phone numbers and links to their accounts in social networks. The rectors believe that the organization violates the law on personal data.

Mardiros Demerchyan, a builder involved in the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi, has received the results of the forensic examination appointed by investigators. According to him, the date on the document is false, and the list of the experts referred to does not correspond to reality.

Marat Djankhaev and Shamil Atashev, deputies of the Buynaksk City Assembly from "Party of Russian Veterans", have themselves provoked a fight, stated supporters of the former Mayor. According to them, the conflict raised from the misbehaviour of the deputies with respect to a young woman.

In the city of Vladikavkaz, the "Baspik" plant, which employs more than 300 people, has suspended the execution of the state defence procurement, since the necessary equipment was seized during searches. This was reported by the press service of the leader of North Ossetia. The pause of the plant will result in the failure of the manufacture of night vision devices for the Russian army, reports the General Director of the Stock Company (SC) "Cathode" in Novosibirsk.

The Russian authorities believe Ramzan Kadyrov is an indispensable person in the current model of relations with Chechnya, and the chances of the replacement of the leader the Chechen Republic are very small. This was stated by Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, the project director for Northern Caucasus of the International Crisis Group (ICG) and a member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" member, in her exclusive interview to the "Caucasian Knot".