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In the afternoon on March 23, in the Chechen capital, near the shopping centre (SC) "Berkat", law enforcers carried out a massive inspection of mobile phones belonging to young people. This was reported by local residents.

Ali Magomedov, a 57-year-old resident of Makhachkala, who worked as a forest officer in the forest near the village of Shushanovka of the Kizilyurt District, disappeared nearly a month ago, and his whereabouts are still unknown. This was reported by one of the relatives of the disappeared man.

The police questioned Islamic preacher Nadir Abu Khalid, who lived in the house in Makhachkala, in which a special operation was conducted on March 21. This was reported by his advocate Israfil Gadadov. The Islamic preacher was brought to the Lenin police department; however, according to the advocate, he was later released.

Umleyla Magomedova, the wife of Rashid Isaev, a resident of Kizilyurt, detained as a suspect of illegal possession of firearms, has been released from the police station, said their relatives.

Investigators have pre-identified six out of seven casualties of the special operation held on March 21 in Makhachkala. Islam Magomedov, an alleged leader of the local militant grouping was identified among them.

A resident of the settlement of Redant in North Ossetia, who had claimed his ownership over a land plot in the territory of an Ingush cemetery, has returned it. After the interference of the Ministry for Foreign Relations, National Policy, Press and Information of the Republic of Ingushetia, the fence was restored in the same place.

Activities of law enforcers in five regions of Dagestan are the result of the visit of Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, to Northern Caucasus, and his statements concerning the risk that militants of the "Islamic State" can return to Russia. This opinion has been expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The celebration of the anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the Chechen Republic in 2003 are held in Grozny under increased security measures; reinforced units of militaries and police are deployed in the city centre.

Large-scale oppositional protest action in Tbilisi; special operation in Makhachkala; armed clash on the Azerbaijani-Nagorno-Karabakh border; signing of a new Russian-South Ossetia alliance and integration treaty; actions in Southern Russia on the anniversary of Crimea annexation; change of Prime Minister in Abkhazia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 16-22, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of March 16-22, 2015, ten persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, seven persons were killed, and three other were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Today, Andranik Grigoryan, a contract soldier of the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh, has gone over to the Azerbaijani side.

Today, at 1:00 p.m., a regime of counterterrorist operation (CTO) introduced in the morning of March 21 in the territory of the Lenin District of Makhachkala has been cancelled.

In Tbilisi, the rally of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party was attended by participants from all the regions of Georgia. 5000 people came from the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, and each of the regions of Imereti and Adjara sent 2000 participants.

This morning, Rashid Isaev, a resident of Kizilyurt, has been detained by law enforcers during the special operation carried out in his house. According to the detainee's relatives, the man has been brought to the Kizilyurt police station, and his advocate is not allowed visiting him.

On air of the TV programme "Dialogue with People", Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov has recommended persons, who have decided to stop their extremist activities, to report to the authorities the full details of their activities for an objective examination of their situation when applying to the Adaptation Commission of militants.

Defenders of Kislovodsk Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov have filed a cassation to the Presidium of the Stavropol Regional Court against the decision of the Board of Appeals and the resolution of the Predgorny District Court concerning the complaint to recognize unlawful the actions of the deputy head of the Investigating Division of the Investigating Department for the Predgorny District of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Lyubov Azieva, a deputy director of the medical college in the city of Nazran, has resigned after the Security Council made a check of students' complaints that they were not allowed to wear hijabs.

According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), in the course of a special operation conducted in Makhachkala, seven militants were killed, including four men and three women; one SOBR (analogue of Special Weapons Assault Team – SWAT) fighter was wounded.

The organizers of the today's protest action in Tbilisi with a demand of resignation of the government state that it was attended by 50,000 people.

The heroes of the documentary "Chechnya: War without Trace", which tells about gross violation of human rights in the region, may be prosecuted, said the rights defenders questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".