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The hunger strike of six pensioners from the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, who demand revision of tariffs for housing services, was suspended. The regional authorities have set up a working group to check the rates on housing services in the city.

One of the residents of the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya, who was injured on March 10 while gathering ramson in the woods by militaries' shelling, died in hospital.

In the Untsukul District of Dagestan, after a special operation conducted there, the forest is still on fire, said Rasul Yakubov, the head of the village of Balakhani. Local residents fear that the fire might soon approach the settlements.

Today, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia dismissed the petition lodged by the representative of the ex-presidential candidate Raffi Ovannisyan to summon the incumbent Serzh Sargsyan to the session.

The Sunzha District Court has sentenced Usman Albakov, a resident of Ingushetia, accused of members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), to eighteen months' of conditional imprisonment.

Today, the capital of Azerbaijan has held a protest action demanding to stop prosecuting Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado". The action took place in front of the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, where Mamedov's trial continued today.

The prosecutor's office has appealed against the decision of the top managers of the Volgograd State University to take money from students for taking re-examination and repeated tests. The corresponding Rector's order violates students' rights, prosecutors have stated.

A regular direct bus service between Chechnya and Germany was opened from March 12, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the Ministry of Transports of the republic.

Residents of the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, have decided to resume their hunger strike with a demand to revise housing and municipal tariffs, since they were unhappy with the outcome of negotiations with the authorities and insist on presenting of a detailed calculation of the consumption standards on water and heating.

The special operation in a forest near the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan is over, according to local residents. They report that last night militaries left the area; however, the forest, ignited by shelling, is still on fire.

The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has topped the citation rating of bloggers-governors this February; the rating is based on the study conducted by the "Medialogy" Company. The top ten positions also include the heads of two more regions of Southern Russia – Alexander Tkachov, the governor of the Krasnodar Territory; and Alexander Zhilkin, the governor of the Astrakhan Region.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has been informed by South-Ossetian entrepreneurs that the import of foodstuffs to their country has been blocked again.

The Nasimi District Court of Baku has dismissed the petition asking to change the freedom restriction measure of Ilgar Mamedov, the head of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) for home arrest.

On March 11, the Krasnodar Territorial Court continued hearing the case on the murder in Sochi of pensioner Maevskaya. The session was attended by human rights defender Grigory Uchkurov, who was to represent the interests of Yuri Maevskiy, the stepson of the murdered woman.

Today, the Moscow Regional Court continued considering the case on the terror act committed at the "Domodedovo" Airport in January 2011. A witness, who is now serving his term in a colony in North Ossetia, was questioned through videoconferencing.

Cossacks of the Terek Cossack Army are invited to maintain order during the counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in a number of dwelling settlements of North Ossetia.

Law enforcers are conducting a major special operation in a forest near the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan, a local resident told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Out of the 52 Georgian wine producers that had applied for importing their products into Russia, only 19 have delivered the documents for examination; and only one company brought its wine samples, said Gennady Onischenko, the head of the "Rospotrebnadzor".

As reported by relatives and the doctor on duty of the Republic's Clinical Hospital (RCH) in Nalchik, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the health condition of Mukhamed Khabilov, who jumped on February 25 from a third floor window of the MIA building.

The four suspected militants killed today in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have been identified. According to the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of the Russian Federation, they were engaged in supplying members of the armed underground with arms and ammunition; and were involved in extorting money from businessmen. Eight suspected militants were also detained in the course of today's special operation.