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In Azerbaijan, oppositional activists and experts have condemned the murder of the prominent Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, stating that his death is "a blow to democratic forces not only in Russia, but throughout the world."

The situation along the entire perimeter of the border with Georgia is satisfactory, the South-Ossetian party said during a meeting in Ergneti. At the same time, South Ossetia continues defending its right on the disputed section along the border, Khokh Gagloity, the head of the South-Ossetian delegation, said after the meeting in Ergneti.

The experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent treat the version of Boris Nemtsov's murder for the reasons of religious extremism least likely. Nemtsov was killed for his oppositional activities, said the politicians Vladimir Ryzhkov and Konstantin Merzlikin.

As stated by the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the investigators, who run the inquiry into Boris Nemtsov's murder, consider an Islamic-extremist trace as a version of the crime. The investigators suggest that the reason for the murder could be in Nemtsov's position with respect to the execution of the staff of the magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Today, about 100 residents of Sochi have left for Moscow to attend the funeral of Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead in the Russian capital. The politician was an honest and open person, say the residents of Sochi, who personally knew Nemtsov.

Soldier Albert Safaryan was fatally wounded on his combat duty post in the conflict zone, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

The NKR is hosting mourning events in memory of the victims of the pogroms in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait. Today, 27 years after the massacre, at least 924 refugee families from Sumgait are still in Armenia on the waiting list of especially needy persons.

The Russian oppositional politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead last night in Moscow, had systematically sharply criticized the actions of the Chechen leadership. He stressed that Ramzan Kadyrov's power in the region is violent in nature and is supported by huge financial subsidies.

Russian border guards, stationed in South Ossetia, have detained a Georgian citizen Vasily Kobakhidze in the pre-border territory.

The highway that is connecting six villages of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan with Kizilyurt – the district centre – is blocked, because of the counterterrorist operation (CTO), creating a number of inconveniences for the population, local residents report.

The protesters, who rallied in Yerevan in front of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia, have demanded to hand Valery Permyakov, accused of massacring the Avetisyan family, out to the Armenian party.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya will consider the case of the local resident Mukhammed Migaev, accused of attacking in 2005 residents of the village of Roshni-Chu of the Urus-Martan District.

The explosion of a bus in 2007, en route from Pyatigorsk to Vladikavkaz, was committed by a former resident of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, said a local law enforcement source.

Oleg Shalyapin, the head of the armed grouping, was pre-identified among the six persons killed in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan. The special operation continues, said the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Abdullah Getagazov, a native of Ingushetia, is accused of committing a robbery in the city of Khimki. His advocate states that he revealed at least 16 violations in the investigation of the case. One of them, as he says, was a wrong qualification of the incident, in the course of which, according to Getagazov, he tried to get some debt on behalf of his friends.

On the results of the repeated inquiry, investigators of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have presented charges of abuse of office and intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm to Ruslan Rakhaev, a former deputy police chief of the city of Cherkessk.

By the outcomes of the work of the commission of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), hospital staff and officials of the military commissariat in the Transbaikal Territory will be punished in connection with involvement in conscription of Valery Permyakov, who is accused of a mass murder in Gyumri.

A group of forced migrants from the eastern regions of Ukraine have come to Stavropol from Rostov-on-Don. In just the recent two weeks, the region has accommodated 140 refugees.

In Dagestan, nine militants were killed during a special operation held in the Kizilyurt District, and one special agent also perished. This was reported by a source in the Ministry Internal Affair (MIA). One more power agent was wounded.

The Goychay District Court of Azerbaijan has announced the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of arrest for three months against rights defender Talekh Khasmamedov accused of disorderly conduct.