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On April 1, in Volgograd, protest action against bad roads, entitled "Fools and Roads", will gather 200 vehicles. The protest action is coordinated with the authorities. This was reported by Armen Oganesyan, Chairman of the interregional public organization "Movement of Motorists".

In Yerevan, a new initiative, which opposes construction in the Mashtots Park, was formed. A group of public figures expressed their support to the activists, who demand to dismantle trade stalls transferred from Abovyan Street to the park.

Lawyers of the family members of Hrant Dink, the editor of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper "Agos", appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office in Istanbul, demanding to initiate a new investigation to clarify the unexplored details.

At least 14 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in the period of March 19-25: 9 persons were killed and 5 wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", based on own materials and information from other public sources.

Information about the detention on March 24 in the suburbs of Makhachkala of the persons suspected of possessing weapons does not represent the real facts. This was stated by activists of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" and the public organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

The second round of presidential election in South Ossetia; new voting on the parliamentary election in Abkhazia; attempt at an imam and bringing a big group of power-wielding structures to Dagestan; Alexander Tkachev’s reassignment Governor of Krasnodar region; nomination of candidates for the election of the Parliament of Armenia. Come to know about all these from a survey of the most significant events from March, 19, till March, 25, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

According to the preliminary outcomes of the repeated elections held on March 24, 2012, in 20 constituencies, three nominees of oppositional forces – the Hero of Abkhazia Aslan Kobakhiya, the head of the organization named "Akhyatsa" Akhra Bzhaniya, and the surgeon Apollon Gurguliya – were elected as new MPs.

As reported by the General Prosecutor's Office of South Ossetia, the leader of the opposition and the former presidential candidate Alla Djioeva is now free of any suspicions of an attempted illegal seizure of power – now she is just a witness in the litigation.

Today, in the cities of Kaspiisk and Izberbash, 130 families received keys to their flats in the energy-efficient apartment blocks, for the first time built in Northern Caucasus within the framework of the federal programme aimed to resettle people from shabby housing.

The man, killed during an armed skirmish with policemen in Dagestan, has been identified as Stanislav Shisinov. According to Russia's NAC (National Antiterrorist Committee), he was a member of the "southern" terrorist grouping.

In Astrakhan today, after an action in support of the participants of the political hunger strike, which demands abolition of the election of the city Mayor, two hunger-strikers – Yaroslav Savin and Oleg Anikin – were hospitalized.

Today, Gadji Isadibirov, a suspect of involvement in the armed underground, who had been blocked in an apartment in a high-rise building in Makhachkala, has surrendered after negotiations under the personal guarantees of the head of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov.

On March 23-24, Lyudmila Shestak, a member of the Sochi City Assembly from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), held solo pickets at the city Mayoralty. According to her story, her protest was caused by the "negligent" attitude of Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov to the green plantings of the resort city.

Residents of several villages of the mountainous Khuloy District of Adzharia have suffered from landslides caused by melting of huge masses of snow.

On March 23, the personal reception of local citizens by Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and his deputy Boris Karnaukhov, was over only in early morning today. In total 62 persons were listened to; and about fifty more left their written complaints and petitions addressed to the ICRF bosses.

The Office has made a presentation to the head of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "Gorvodocanal" based on complaints of residents of the Staropromyslovsky District of Grozny on absence of water. The grounds for the prosecutor's check were found in the materials published by the "Caucasian Knot".

Residents of the shabby house No. 7a Azatamartikneri Street demand that the authorities either repair the building or demolish it and resettle its residents.

The head of the Department for the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) has denied the information that Aslan Cherkesov, convicted for murdering Yegor Sviridov, a football fan of the Moscow "Spartak" FC, was beaten in the SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) cell.

In the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, power agents have shot dead three suspected militants, involved, according to the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) in murdering policemen on the day of the recent presidential election.

Yesterday, on March 22, Abubakar Tsechoev was kidnapped in Ingushetia, his brother Ibragim Tsechoev reports. According to his story, at about 9 in the evening, armed men took Abubakar away from his workplace at the head pumping station (HPS) of the local "Vodokanal" (water supply and sewage utility).