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Anna Tkachova, a resident of Sochi, said that she received traumas, when the ceiling of her flat collapsed. The flat is in the house in Vorovsky Street, which has been recognized as unfit for residence. The court had obliged the city Mayoralty to provide Tkachova and her minor daughter with a comfortable housing, but the Mayoralty has filed an appeal.

Oleg Khlyupin, a Volgograd resident, was arrested by the authorities of Ukraine in the area of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO), Mikhail Yasin-Panin, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "ROD", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The topic of the Red Zone Festival, held in Oslo on March 3-8, is the genocide against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that at night on February 24, an explosion occurred on the dam in the settlement of Chernorechie in Grozny, which killed three people. None of them was known as a militant. After the incident, it became known that two residents of the nearby village of Gvardeiskoe were detained.

During the motor rally organized by the "Pre-Parliament" in the NKR, a number of policemen grossly violated the discipline; ten of them will be dismissed.

At night on March 6, the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) killed seven Azerbaijani soldiers, who were trying to cross the border, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

The court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sentenced Asker Abidov, an employee of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Chegem ROVD (District Interior Division) to four years of imprisonment for beating adolescents.

Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has extended for other two months – until May 24 – the detention of the journalist Khadija Ismayilova. Her defence treats this decision illegal and intends to appeal against it.

Forty persons, who claimed at different times of being harassed by power agents, have signed an open letter in support of the Committee against Torture (CaT); there are nine residents of Chechnya among them.

Today, in Azerbaijan, at the trial of Siraj Kerimli, recognized by the international human rights organization Amnesty International as "prisoner of conscience", the court listened to testimonies of two defence witnesses.

The Security Council of Ingushetia is checking, jointly with the Ministry of Public Health (MPH), the information that teachers of the medical college in Nazran prohibit female students to wear hijabs. According to preliminary data of the head of the MPH, none of the questioned students confirmed the presence of any conflicts.

The total number of citizens of Ukraine staying now in the Volgograd Region is not more than 20,000; of them about a half has have applied for legal status in the territory Russia. Despite the escalation of conflict in Donbas in late 2014, in early 2015, there was no mass inflow of citizens from Ukraine, said the local department of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS).

On March 5, at the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of committing a terror act during the Boston Marathon in April 2013, 11 witnesses for prosecution were questioned. Two of them said that they had never seen him before; and one recollected his brother Tamerlan.

Six women-villagers of Shushiya, Novolak District of Dagestan, have suspended their hunger strike, which was launched with a demand to allocate land plots to them. They agreed to define their further actions after a new decision of the Kumtorkalin Court on the lawsuit of the village administration, asking to cancel the registration of the lease contract on the disputed land plots.

The blood donor action "Blood remembers everything!" in memory of victims of deportation of Balkar nationals was held today in the cities of Karachaevsk and Cherkessk in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). 85 people gave their blood.

The lawyer Alexander Popkov has appealed against the arrest of the Krasnodar activist Leonid Martynyuk to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

A militant-participant in the hostage-taking in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre has been captured in the Crimea, said the Border-Guarding Service of the FSB.

The residents of Chechnya Zavaraev, Khalukaev and Parmazov, who died from explosion on the dam, were not members of the armed underground, said a local law enforcement source.

The life-long convicts from South Ossetia, kept in Gldani Prison, have stopped their hunger strike after receiving a promise from officials of the Georgian presidential administration to bring their cases for consideration of the Parliament.

The Moscow Bureau of Interpol has disseminated in its international network a request for the arrest of Kuban ecologist Suren Gazaryan. This was reported by his advocate Alexander Popkov.