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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.

The Administrative Court of Armenia has accepted a lawsuit lodged by the "Union of Informed Citizens" against the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia, demanding to publish a letter sent by the head of the GPO to his Russian counterpart asking to transfer Valery Permyakov to the Armenian party.

The criminal case about the mortal brawl in the hospital of the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody) with 27 participants was handed over to the prosecutor for approval of the indictment. Six people are still in search; their case was isolated into separate proceeding.

Beslan Shavanov, who died at the explosion of a grenade in Grozny, was buried in the village of Alkhazurovo, Urus-Martan District of Chechnya. His fellow villagers doubt of his involvement in the murder of Nemtsov in Moscow.

Information about the murder of Budanov from the Internet was discussed in the deliberation room, witnesses reported on March 11 in the course of consideration of the case of former jurymen, now accused of obstructing the justice.

The story of Pyotr Parpulov, a resident of Sochi, accused of treason, about his meeting with members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) in SIZO is completely contradicting the data voiced earlier by POC members, said Oleg Eliseev, the advocate of Parpulov.

The successors of the Avetisyan family, whose members were massacred in Gyumri, demand from investigators to present the clothes of Valery Permyakov, who was accused of the above massacre, for identification. Permyakov put on the clothes in question after committing the crime.

Andrei Babushkin, a member of the Moscow Public Oversight Commission (POC), was questioned as a witness in the murder case of Boris Nemtsov. The interrogation was associated with his visiting Gubashev brothers and Zaur Dadaev at the SIZO "Lefortovo", said Babushkin.

Law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan have detained Zyulfugar Ibragimov, Mubariz Mirzoev, Shamseddin Abdullazadeh and Vyugar Aliev on suspicion of recruiting citizens to war in Syria.

Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, has expressed a requirement to take special control over the return of militants from the Middle East.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has decided to appeal against the ruling of the Tver District Court of Moscow, which refused to satisfy the HRC's lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia.