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In Karachay-Cherkessia, public representatives of the Adyge-Khabl and the Khabez Municipal Districts and the Board of Elders of Circassian Nation (BECN) urged the authorities to terminate the powers of Vyacheslav Derev, the member of the Council of Federation. In case, if their demands are not satisfied, the representatives of the Circassian community intend to hold on March 30 a rally in the central square of the city of Cherkessk.

The investigatory agencies of the Novosibirsk Region do not deny the fact that Anzor Kunashev, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, who disappeared in the Novosibirsk Region, had been detained by regional power agents, and they promised to provide information on the issue only to the family member of the detainee.

This morning, in Azerbaijan, Tarana Gabibova, a resident of the town of Khachmaz, jumped from the fifth floor. According to her relatives, Tarana Gabibova committed suicide because of the fact that law enforcement agents did not investigate the murder of her mother Nadjima Babaeva, who was the owner of the major shopping centre "Arzu" in Khachmaz. The family members believe that the murder of Nadjima Babaeva was backed by the local authorities.

Islam Kurmanov, a student from the city of Nalchik of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), has appealed to human rights defenders with a complaint of torture and enforcement to testify about the crimes, which he had not committed.

On March, 27, the Court in Strasbourg brought judgments on the cases of ten-years standing concerning murders and kidnapping of residents of Chechnya and obliged Russia to pay compensations to a total sum of 220 thousand euros and 8500 euros legal costs.

On March, 27, opening of neurology and neurosurgery unit of Republican hospital No 2 and a new line of orthopedic and traumatology center equipped with techniques of the latest generation was held.

Evgeniy Bukrimov and Igor Astafiev – participants of the termless political hunger strike in Astrakhan – have health problems: they were rendered medical aid.

Today, the Georgian MPs have approved – in the third and final reading – amendments to several legislative acts, according to which the racial, language, religious, national or ethnic intolerance becomes an aggravating circumstance of a crime.

A group of 17 Circassians has arrived from Syria to Kabardino-Balkaria, as reported by Beslan Khagazheev (Khagazhei), a board member of the public organization "Peryt" engaged in assisting compatriots to come back and settle in their homeland.

The City Court of Cherkessk has acquitted Rasul Adjiev, 35, who was accused of murdering one of the activists of the youth movement "Adyge-Khase" Aslan Zhukov, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a source from the City Court.

The authorities of Ingushetia have offered to introduce mandatory testing for HIV-infection for all young people of the republic wishing to enter into marriage.

Aslan Cherkesov convicted for murder of Moscow football fan Yegor Sviridov was not found in colony No 17 of Krasnoyarsk region where he was convoyed from investigative isolation ward No 1 of Krasnoyarsk, his mother Sonya Cherkesova states.

As reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria, in Nalchik law enforcers have detained an accomplice of Alim Zankishiev, the leader of Kabardino-Balkarian militants who was killed today in a special operation.

The Tuapse District Court has sentenced the participants of the mass brawl in the territory of the resort complex "Don".

Central Election Committee of South Ossetia signed the final protocol of the results of the first round of re-run of presidential election according to which Leonid Tibilov was acknowledged leader.

Young Circassians who came to study in the institute of higher education of Adygea from Syria initiated Circassian folk games among the youth which had not been held in the republic till autumn, 2011. On March, 24, the third game passed off on Maikop. The number of the participants is growing. In the young people’s opinion, the games integrate the youth, let them get acquainted with one another and come to know their history.

In the cities of Pyatigorsk and Yessentuki, a pre-investigation into the fact of death of two patients of medical institutions after injections of lidocaine was started. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Stavropol Territory.

The city of Volgograd held public hearings on return of the direct election of Mayor. City residents, who participated in the event, voted unanimously for making appropriate changes to the city charter.

The Prosecutor's Office has confirmed an indictment in the case against Islam Khashagulgov, the resident of the Republic of Ingushetia, suspected of manufacturing an explosive device, triggered in 2010 at the market in Vladikavkaz. This was reported by the Russian General Prosecutor's Office.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the public organization in the repatriation of compatriots and their settlement in the land of their ancestors "Peryt" announced the raising of funds to organize assistance to repatriates from Syria. This was reported by Beslan Khagazheev, the member of the Board of the public organization.