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The workers of the "Nairit" Factory found their meeting with the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources useless, and went out to a new protest action with a demand to pay their salary debts.

The Narimanov District Court of Baku has ruled to arrest for two months four Azerbaijani citizens suspected of recruiting people to war in Syria. They were charged not of recruiting mercenaries, but of illegal possession of weapons, said their advocate.

Azerbaijani position in the area of the Karabakh conflict have been shelled for 52 times within the last 24 hours, said this country's Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The explosion occurred in one of the apartments of multi-story building that is being constructed in Khasavyurt. Nobody has suffered in the accident.

The United Transport Directorate (UTD) has decided to resume, since April 30, transportation of passengers from the Krasnodar Territory to the Crimea under the so-called "single ticket".

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), obliging Russia to pay 120,000 euros to relatives of Zaur Dadaev, a former power agent from Chechnya, who is now accused of killing Boris Nemtsov, will be appealed against before April 15, said the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia.

The verdict to Patimat Nasibova, a resident of Dagestan, who was sentenced to two years in prison on charges of aiding militants, is too strict, and her defence intends to appeal against it, said her advocate.

Today, the Tbilisi City Court has acquitted Parnavaz Chkadua, an activist of the NGO "Free Zone", who had been detained by the patrol police during a mass brawl in front of the Parliament of Georgia.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondents Svetlana Kravchenko, Fayik Medjid and Magomed Tuaev have been awarded with special diplomas of the contest held in honour of the Dagestani journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev.

The applicant in the case "Dadaeva at al vs. Russia" was the aunt (mother's sister) mother of Zaur Dadaev, now accused in killing Boris Nemtsov, the newspaper "Kommersant" reports. This information is in line with earlier materials of the "Caucasian Knot" about the case won by Dadaev and Shavanov families at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Brothers Magomed and Sagid Gadjiev were detained on Friday morning in the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan, their relatives have reported.

The statement of Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, about the threat of return to Russia of the militants of the terrorist "Islamic State" (IS) suggests that Northern Caucasus will see tighter police methods, the experts, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

The first place in the contest in memory of the Dagestani journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev was awarded to Elena Milashina, a correspondent of the "Novaya Gazeta". The awarding ceremony was held on Friday, March 13, in the House of Journalists.

The call of the European Parliament (EP) to EU member-states to recognize the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 is no lever of influence on Turkey, said Levon Ovsepyan, a Turkologist.

Aishat Dalgatova, a resident of Makhachkala, has disappeared in the capital of Dagestan along with her year-old baby. Her relatives believe that they were kidnapped, said a source from the Dagestan Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has sentenced two men, after finding them guilty of the assault in 1999 on the village of Chervlyonnaya, Shelkovskoy District of Chechnya, to 8 years in prison each. The attack was headed by Shamil Basaev and Amir Khattab.

The reports on torture and ill-treatment by power agents of figurants in Boris Nemtsov's murder case should be investigated as soon as possible, said the international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI).

The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have adopted a resolution stating the need for an independent international investigation into the assassination of the Russian politician Boris Nemtsov.

Following the outcomes of the preliminary hearing of the criminal case on the terror act in Pyatigorsk in 2013, the first session on the merits will take place on March 24.

The complaint of Zaur Dadaev, accused of involvement in the murder of Nemtsov, against his arrest arrived on Thursday in the Moscow Basmanny Court, said a court source.