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In Tbilisi, members and followers of the NGO "Free Zone", supporting the of the ex-President Mikhail Saakashvili's "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, have organized a protest action in front of the "Holiday Inn" Hotel, while it hosted the press conference of Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.

The incident occurred in Khasavyurt in Makhmudov Street at 9:00 p.m. Moscow time on March 25. Policemen conducted operational and search activities, when they were shelled while they tried to check the documents for a Lada Priora car.

In Krasnodar, activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) have found three places where sewage effluents are charged into the Kuban River.

Till present, none of advocates of defendants in the case of terror act in Pyatigorsk in 2013 has been given the chance to examine the materials of the criminal case. This was reported by advocate Gadjimurad Izmailov.

Mosque-goers report that power agents have torn away a poster with quotes of Koran verses from the wall of a mosque in Buynaksk.

The Kizilyurt City Court has postponed the decision on the freedom restriction measure of local resident Rashid Isaev, accused of arms circulation, and extended his detention by 72 hours, said his wife.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has left the 41-year-old Khasan Zakaev, a defendant in the case of the seizure of the Dubrovka Theatre, under arrest until June 21.

In the case of the terror act committed in the house of Sheikh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, two defendants have refused to plead guilty in the course of the today's interrogation in the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan.

The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against Dagestani native Aliaskhab Kebekov (Ali Abu-Muhammad), the leader of the terrorist organization "Imarat Kavkaz".

At the trial on the lawsuit, lodged by the Agricultural Holding "Kiev-Zhuraki APC" against the ecologist Valery Brinikh on protection of honour and business reputation, the Maikop City Court listened to testimonies of the former ecologist of the company and a linguist.

The Khasavyurt City Court has sentenced Sabir Ibragimov, a local resident, to two years and six months of imprisonment on charges of aiding and abetting illegal armed formations (IAFs). This was reported by the website of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan.

In Chechnya, law enforcers have identified other nine Chechen residents fighting in Syria. Besides, two former participants of the armed conflict in Syria have been detained in Grozny.

Zaur Dadaev, a defendant in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, has not rejected confession, since he had not been re-interrogated yet. This was reported by Ivan Gerasimov, an advocate of the defendant. At present, the defence checks possible alibi of Zaur Dadaev.

In the Rostov Region, the local authorities claim the impossibility to solve at the local level the problems of residents of the village of Chertkovo, who have every day to illegally cross the border with Ukraine to get to school, hospital, shops, and administration.

The Stavropol Territory has organized events to mark the 14th anniversary of the terror acts committed in the cities of Yessentuki and Mineralnye Vody in 2001.

About 30 journalists took part in a three-day tour to Nagorno-Karabakh within the media forum "At the Foot of Mount Ararat" devoted to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

In Volgograd, 1574 former workers of the plant "Khimprom" are registered at the employment centre, and only 70 former employees of the plant found new jobs. According to former factory workers, to find a job is the most difficult for "employees close to retirement age."

Ruslan Magomedragimov, an activist of the movement "Sadval" found dead today, used to defend the rights of residents of the village of Samur and oppose renaming of streets in Derbent. A pathologist has pointed to signs of a violent death of Ruslan Magomedragimov. This was reported by Albert Esedov, the leader of the movement "Sadval".

An inmate of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 3 of Khasavyurt needs an urgent surgery. This was reported by Ummupazil Omarova, the Ombudsperson for Dagestan, to the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) after her visit to the SIZO.

Rashid Isaev detained in Kizilyurt on March 22 is suspected of illegal possession of weapons. He has been transferred to the SIZO (pre-trial prison).