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The folk healer, who was killed on March 10 in Dagestan, was an invalid, engaged in making amulets. A special operative plan was introduced in the republic with the aim to find the offender.

On March 10, in the south-west of Chechnya, in the foothill Achkhoi-Martan District, the shelling by militaries of the forest, two local residents, who were gathering wild leek, were wounded. They are now in grave condition.

A Baku court has arrested three activists of the Nida, who are accused of inciting violence and civil disobedience, possession of narcotics and explosives.

Murders of a federal judge, a teacher and a teacher and folk healer in Dagestan; announcement by the Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation of essential overrating of Olympic objects in Sochi; permit to 40 Georgian producers of mineral water, wine and cognac to enter the Russian market; granting political asylum in Finland to Polina Zherebtsova, author of the book about war in Chechnya; presentation of the study "What people think about Stalin in Russia and Transcaucasia", dated to 60years after deathof Joseph Stalin, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 4-10, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The school teacher of the Russian language in the village of Kurakh, Dagestan, was found dead in her house.

The entrance to the territory of the intended construction site of the Kudepsta Heat and Power Plant (HPP) of three KAMAZ trucks with building materials has caused massive protests of local residents who demand to stop any attempt to start building the hazadrous, in their opinion, object.

Kakhriman Shikhgasanov, who suffered from the flooding in Derbent, states that because of negligence of local officials he cannot get his due compensation.

According to the spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the republic, the basic version of the murder of a judge, committed in the evening on March 9 in Dagestan, has to do with his service activities.

Mukhamed Khabilov, a resident of the city of Terek, Kabardino-Balkaria, said that he jumped out of the window of the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) not because of his suicidal moods or fear of going to jail, but after policemen threatened to torture him.

On March 8, about 50 residents of Tunnelnaya Street in Sochi held a gathering with a demand to close the places of entertainment, working in close proximity to residential houses.

Residents of the village of Novosasitli, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, have no information on the fate of four of their fellow villagers, detained by power agents on March 7. The situation in the village is strained, as the head of the village told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the city of Nevinnomyssk hosted a picket of the unregistered nationalist party "Novaya Sila" (New Force) with a demand to withdraw the Stavropol Territory out of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and introduction of a special migration regime.

As of March 9, based on the law "On Amnesty", 8503 prisoners have left their jails, the Ministry of Corrections has reported.

The guardianship authorities of Novocherkassk are suspected that they had failed to take proper measures in the situation with the 8-year-old Amalia Novikova, who died of meningitis. According to investigators, the girl lived with her mother, who had been deprived of parental rights.

Almaz Kerimova, born in 1998, a resident of the township of Gyulyustan of the city of Gandzha, made an attempt of self-immolation. With third-degree burns she was taken to hospital.

The Parliament of Georgia has passed – by majority of votes – a resolution, under which the country will continue its way towards integration into the EU and NATO and will not have diplomatic relations with the countries that have recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Today, Tbilisi has hosted a march of feminists dated to the International Women's Day. The action was attended by about 40 persons.

Vladimir Bedukadze, the author of the video showing acts of torture applied to inmates of a Georgian prison, has announced a hunger strike demanding a fair trial of his case by the court, which runs from March 4 in the closed regime.

The defence of the ex-presidential candidate Vardan Sedrakyan, arrested on suspicion of an attempt during the election on another presidential candidate Paruir Airikyan, has filed a complaint to the Court of Appeal against his arrest.

This morning in Vladikavkaz, about 50 ambulance drivers gathered at the station and demanded a meeting with the leadership of the regional branch of the Medical Insurance Fund and the city health department. They said that they would not go to work because of wage payment delays. Representatives of the city administration came to meet the strikers and promised to solve the problem.