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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".

The 2015 budget of the Republic of Adygea will allocate over 3.6 million roubles to buy housing for the persons, rehabilitated and recognized as victims of political repressions.

On March 3, Sochi residents, Professor Nikolai Kulikov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, and Mikhail Zubov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, received documents on being awarded the title of laureates of the 2014 Award of the Russian Government in the field of science and technology. They were awarded for the development of a wastewater treatment method. The scientists hope that their development will be applied in their hometown.

Members of the Krasnodar Territorial Public Oversight Commission (POC) under the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation have visited a Sochi resident Pyotr Parpulov at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where he is kept under suspicion of high treason. As a result, they managed to solve the problem of a surgery that Parpulov needs. During the visit, they also revealed violations of custody conditions at the SIZO.

Despite all the tragic events, associated with the presence of Russian troops in Gyumri, city residents are in no hurry to change their attitude, and most of them are not against the Russian military presence on their land. This was confirmed by a poll, conducted by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, the oppositional politician Boris Nemtsov was buried in Moscow. The participants in the funeral service, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, criticized the investigators' version about involvement in his murder of Chechen militants or supporters of radical Islam.

The Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has rejected the appeal of the Armenian MP Zarui Postanjyan to extradite the Russian regular soldier Valery Permyakov, accused of massacring the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, to the Armenian party.

In Makhachkala, on March 2, unidentified kidnappers pushed Artyom Alkhasov, a son of Gadjikurban Alkhasov, an editor of the State TV and Radio Company (STRC) "Dagestan", into a car and took away to some unknown place. According to the father, Artyom's whereabouts is still unknown.

The court in Krasnodar has replaced the conditional imprisonment imposed on Professor Mikhail Savva, who is now on the federal wanted list, by three years in a colony-settlement for violating the regime of serving his conditional punishment.

There are mass detentions in the settlement of Semender, in the Kirov District of Makhachkala, said an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), citing local residents.

Four out of seven casualties of the counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, have been pre-identified. Among them, there are the persons wanted for the murder of Colonel Salimgereev. Four other suspected militants managed to escape.

The father of Ibragim Todashev, a native of Chechnya, who was killed by an FBI agent during his questioning about the terror act during the Boston Marathon, said that he was preparing a lawsuit against the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the amount of 30 million US dollars in connection with his son's murder.

The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has instructed the republic's Security Council to check the complaints of female-students of the medical college in Nazran, who complained that some teachers forbid them to wear hijabs.

The mother of Anatoly Boltykhov, the organizer of the failed "Vesna" (Spring) March in Volgograd, was threatened by law enforcers, said Anatoly, adding that he was also afraid of possible provocations.

Artyom Alkhasov, a resident of Makhachkala, was kidnapped in the evening on March 2 in the centre of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, his relatives report. The police have confirmed that they received an application about the kidnapping.

Two residents of the village of Elin-Yurt (Gvardeiskoe) were detained in Chechnya after the explosion at the dam of the Chernorechensk Reservoir. The whereabouts of the detainees is unknown, said a local resident.