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Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes has announced the conviction to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural" Avaz Zeinalov. Azerbaijani human rights activists have already called Zeinalov a political prisoner.

More than two thousand Cossacks from the Don, Terek, Kuban and the Urals have signed a petition to the authorities to recognize them as a nation.

During a charity concert of Yuri Bashmet in Tbilisi on March 11, several dozens of young people held a protest action, demanding the arrest the musician for his visiting Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

In Azerbaijan, parents of the arrested activists of the civil movement "Nida" (Shout) Bakhtiyar Guliev, Shakhin Novruzlu and Mamed Aziziov refused from the services of independent lawyers, suggested by the leaders of the movement. The leaders of the movement are concerned about possible pressure on the detainees and believe that the criminal case against them was fabricated.

Three out of four figurants in the murder case of Fral Shebzukhov, an advisor of the former head of Karachay-Cherkessia, convicted by the Supreme Court of the republic to various terms of imprisonment, have appealed against their verdict.

The investigation of a criminal case against four senior officials of the Krymsk District, accused of negligence that entailed deaths during the flood in July 2012, is over. The case has been sent to the prosecutor's office for approval of the indictment.

Residents of the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, who run a hunger strike in disagreement with the growth of utility rates, have stopped their protest action for the time of negotiations with regional authorities.

After Renat Temrezov was shot dead by a policeman, the village of Chapaevskoe, Karachay-Cherkessia, hosted a protest action that was attended by about 400 people, the villagers report. After the funeral, a meeting took place of local residents with the district administration; and there no "spontaneous" sentiments in the village, according to Marat Botashev, the head of the rural settlement.

Five citizens of Azerbaijan have been subjected to administrative arrest, and 16 others were fined for taking part in a non-sanctioned protest against non-combat losses in the army. The rulings were passed today by the Sabail and Nasimi District Courts of Baku.

Today, at the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia, which hears the case on non-recognition of the results of the presidential election, a former candidate Andreas Gukasyan has demanded to remove the representatives of the incumbent president and to involve the president himself in the process.

As reported by the MoD of Azerbaijan, Ali Abilov, its soldier was killed in the Karabakh conflict zone.

Raffi Ovannisyan, a former presidential candidate of Armenia and the leader of the oppositional "Heritage" Party, who holds a hunger strike in Freedom Square in Yerevan to protest against the rigged election, called the young people who had joined him to stop their action.

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.