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The ruling of the Orenburg Regional Court in the case of Muslim books will be appealed against by means of cassation, said the advocate Timur Zaripov, who represented the interests of the Publishing Houses "Dilya" and "New World" and of Imam Alyautdinov from the Moscow Shamil Memorial Mosque.

Policemen found a pistol and an RGO grenade in a car of the persons killed in a firefight with law enforcers that occurred in Khasavyurt.

Ruslan Geremeev, a former officer of the battalion "Sever" (North) of the Interior Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has been questioned by investigators as a witness in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov. This was reported by material prepared by Svetlana Reuter and Mariya Bondarenko and published by the "RBC".

The Russian Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the appeals filed by Timur Tangiev, a resident of Grozny, and his defence against the verdict announced by the Supreme Court of Chechnya.

Ruslan Magomedragimov, an activist of the movement "Sadval", was killed, and his death was not caused by natural reasons. This opinion was expressed by Dagestani experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

At the village gathering, residents of the Dagestani village of Shushiya, where people continue their hunger strike demanding to return land plots, have offered the protesters to organize a rally and seek the support at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

There are no recruiters from the "Islamic State" (IS) in the North-Caucasian Federal University (NCFU) and the Dagestani State University (DSU). This was declared by students of the above universities.

About 1500 mercenaries from Northern Caucasus are fighting in Syria and Iraq on the side of militants. This was reported in Pyatigorsk by Sergey Melikov, the Russian President's Envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

The Armenian Government has approved the granting of new territory to the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled to pay compensation for moral damages in the amount of 79,500 euros to family members of Zhebrailov brothers, who were detained by law enforcers in Chechnya in 2005 and the fate of one of whom is still unknown.

In Chechnya, during the consideration of the case against Timur Tangiev by the Supreme Court (SC), jurors and witnesses were subjected to pressure. This was claimed by the defendant's defence. According to the advocates, the direction of the case for a re-consideration followed by the announcement of an objective verdict would be a kind of "road map" for judicial reconciliation in Northern Caucasus.

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".