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On Monday, March 24, the ruling took effect of the Sochi Tsentralny District Court, which stated that the inaction of the Mayoralty in reviewing the notification about a rally against discrimination of Sochi residents was illegal.

As reported by the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) in the course of the shootout in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt four militants were killed; one of them was identified as Idris Akavov, the leader of the "Babayurt" militant grouping.

According to preliminary information, the hideout belonged to a local resident who was killed in a special operation in Bylym in December 2013.

Power agents have given the body of Tengiz Guketlov, killed on March 14 during the assault of a household in Nalchik, out to his relatives, said a source from the Investigating Department (ID) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Investigators regard the official duties of Ibragim Tuchalov, an employee of the Dagestani Department of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), to be the main reason for the attempt on him, said a source from the local law enforcement bodies. According to the MfE, Tuchalov is now in Saint Petersburg; his condition is grave but stable.

Yessentuki investigators ask locals who know anything about the circumstances of disappearance of Shamil Khubiev, the Imam of the settlement of Mirny, to come and report to law enforcement bodies.

The avalanche covered a group of six skiers, who were descended down the "Labyrinth" ski route. As a result, two women perished, said the regional branch of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

The health status of Evgeny Vitishko, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", who is serving his term in the Tambov Region, causes no concern, said Olga Romanova, the executive director of the movement "Imprisoned Russia", after meeting the convict. According to her story, Vitishko has good relations with other inmates and colony administration.

Hurricane causing numerous accidents in Southern Russia; scandal in Georgia with inquiry materials on the death of Zurab Zhvaniya posted on the Internet, which do not exclude his murder; completion of inquiry into the case of former Astrakhan Mayor Mikhail Stolyarov, accused of bribe-taking; appointment of parliamentary elections in South Ossetia; sentences in Volgograd in cases of explosion in "Bellagio" Café, and of riots in Ismailly; confirmation by North-Caucasian militants of death of Doku Umarov, leader of "Imarat Kavkaz", – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 17-23, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, during the week from March 17 to March 23, 2014, at least seven people suffered, including four killed and three wounded persons. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 20 photos appeared on the Internet from the place of death of Zurab Zhvaniya and from the morgue, showing alleged traces of violence on his body. The opposition has railed against the fact that the materials that constitute the secrecy of investigation appeared on the Internet.

The participants of the roundtable "Russia Minus Northern Caucasus?" held on March 21 in Beslan by the association of victims of terror acts "Mothers of Beslan", discussed the socio-economic status of Northern Caucasus, its prospects and the religion as a factor of stabilization or confrontation.

The events around the Crimea will not affect the Karabakh issue, since the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has more than 20 years ago enjoyed its right to self-determination and created its own state, while in the Crimea Russia is solving its geopolitical problems. This is the opinion of policy-makers and experts in the NKR.

The incident occurred in the Parliament Avenue, in front of the MoD of Azerbaijan. A Baku resident Ali Mukhamed oglu Akhmedov (born in 1972) cut his wrist veins, the APA reports with reference to a source from the Sabail District Police Office.

On Saturday, March 22, Yerevan hosted a rally against pension reforms initiated by the DEM.AM. The action was attended by about 15,000 people, who discussed all the risks associated with the new pension system, and declared that in case the amendments of the pension legislation were found constitutional, acts of civil disobedience would follow.

Vano Merabishvili, the former Interior Minister of Georgia, was interrogated within the case of the death of the former Prime Minister Zurab Zhvaniya. As now explained by a source from the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia, Merabishvili's summon to questioning was the haste with which he, then being the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), announced the reason of Zurab Zhvaniya's death.

Law enforcers killed two suspected members of the armed underground in the village of Plievo, Nazran District of Ingushetia, where on Saturday morning the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced, said a source from the local law enforcement bodies.

On March 21, Dagestan held festivities and concerts to mark the Novruz Bayram, symbolizing the beginning of spring. In social networks, debates were launched on whether Muslims should celebrate it.

Another delay of the meeting of Zurab Abashidze with Grigory Karasin indicates that Russian-Georgian talks are in the deadlock, while possible changes in the topics of the talks may be associated with the crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations and the situation in the Crimea, Georgian political scientists believe.

US General Attorney's Office has found no violations in the actions of the FBI agent who shot dead Ibragim Todashev, a native of Chechnya.