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Today, the police have stopped a protest action held in Baku by internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Hostel No. 5 of the Baku State University.

The protest action against arrests of activists of youth organizations, scheduled for April 12 in Baku, has been postponed indefinitely, said its organizer, the editor-in-chief of "Azadlyg" Ganimat Zakhid.

12 students of the North-Caucasian Federal University (NCFU), who took part in a mass brawl in Stavropol, have been expelled.

Grach Muradyan, the head of the village of Proshyan, the Kotaik Region of Armenia, was found dead. According to the police, he was killed because of his professional activities.

Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma Deputy from Chechnya, has sent a request to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika asking to check the information about payment of large sums of money to the armed underground by the head of the Ingush government, as it was stated on air of Channel One by the surrendered militant Ibragim Torzhkhoev. In Ingushetia, the situation was treated as a provocation on the eve of the presidential election in the republic.

Olga Nikolenko, Judge of the Moscow City Court (MCC), has decided to hear the criminal case about the fight at the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeisky" in Moscow with participation of a jury.

Azerbaijan has pulled up some military equipment and a special unit closer to certain sections of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, said Artsrun Ovannisyan, the press secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

A rise of the ground water in the eastern part of the Ingush city of Malgobek has caused flooding of the area inhabited by over a thousand families, said Akhmed Dodov, the head of the city administration.

The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russia's Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) will re-check the quality of the Georgian mineral water "Borjomi", the producers of which are going to resume their exports to the Russian market, said Gennady Onischenko, the head of the agency.

Today, in Baku, the police have arrested Zaur Gurbanly, a blogger and an activist of the movement "Nida". By decision of the Nasimi District Court the activist was arrested for three months.

Magomed Akhmedov, an investigator of the Kirov District of Makhachkala, was detained on suspicion of committing several contract murders, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Today, residents of the village of Nardaran in Azerbaijan have held a protest in demand of release of theologian Talekh Bagirzade and other believers, arrested for taking part in actions in defence of citizens' religious rights.

The demands of the workers of oil enterprise Bos Shelf producing oil drilling platforms in Azerbaijan who on March, 18, went on a strike demanding higher wages, benefit packages and solution of a number of other problems were granted in part.

On March, 1, 23 persons were delivered to the police department during a mass scuffle with the use of traumatic arms in Stavropol. Administrative protocols were drawn up concerning 17 of them, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in Stavropol region reports.

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov suggested to restrict exit from the territory of the country for the officials who have access to secret information.

After the match “Krasnodar” - “Anzhi” on March, 31, about 70 people assaulted seven fans of the Dagestani club. There are injured persons, one was hospitalized, leaders of “Anzhi” fans association “Dikaya Divizia” (“Wild Division”) report.

Residents of the settlement of Untsukul, Dagestan, submitted a multi-authored appeal to Ramazan Abdulatipov acting as President of Dagestan asking him to respond to a special operation in the settlement of Semender during which seven persons were killed, among them Magomedhabib Magomedaliev, Chairman of Untsukul district Assembly.

No less than eight persons got injured in an armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from March, 25, till March, 31, 2013. Four out of them perished and three were wounded. This is the total of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Three years after terror acts in Moscow metro; mass checks of NPOs in Russia, including in country's south; military exercises in the area of Russian Black Sea shore; another round of Geneva Debates, where the parties failed to agree on a joint statement on non-use of force; adoption amendments to Constitution of Georgia and the first application for running for the presidency; ASF hotbeds in North Ossetia, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 25-31, 2013, prepared by the "CaucasianKnot".

A joint documentary made by authors from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey "Memoirs Without Borders" dedicated to problems of the residents of Southern Caucasus, who had suffered from the Armenian Genocide and Karabakh conflict, was presented in Tbilisi.