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On March 17, in Makhachkala, residents of the Dakhadayevsky District of Dagestan held a rally stating falsification at the election of the head of the district and demanded a new early election.

Today, the Court of Appeal has dismissed the petition of the defence of the former presidential candidate Vardan Sedrakyan, who was arrested for two months, asking to change his freedom restriction measure, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has considered a motion to extend the detention in the form of arrest of Tofig Yagublu, a deputy chairman of the "Musavat" Party. Court granted the motion of the prosecutor's office and left the oppositionist behind bars for two months more.

The "Terek" Football Club (FC) can be fined and punished by match without spectators for publicly insulting the referee Michail Vilkov from Nizhny Novgorod during the match with the "Rubin" FC from Kazan.

During the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from March 11 to March 17, 2013, at least 22 persons fell victim. Of them, 21 people were killed and one was wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Hostage-taking using a toy pistol and fake bomb in Astrakhan; decision of ECtHR on of a Chechen's disappearance; Russian SC's uphold of verdict to Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, figurant in Politkovskaya's murder case; relegation of Dagestani "Anji" FC out of Europa League; tougher punishment of ex –policeman who knocked down woman in the Stavropol Territory; conviction of editor of "Khural" newspaper Avaz Zeinalov in Azerbaijan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 11-17, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On March 16, the central Krasnodar hosted an action called "Russian Jogging" against holding the rock festival "Cubana" on the Black Sea coast. The action was attended by about a hundred Russian nationalists, members of the Kuban Cossacks Army and Cossack detachments, as well as activists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).

As reported by the spokesman of the Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC), in the course of a special operation conducted by the power agents on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, seven militants were killed.

Today, in the Buinaksk District, policemen found a burned car with three human bodies inside.

Today, the Kirov District Court of Astrakhan has ruled to arrest Alexander Kuptsov accused of taking hostages at the Fishery College. The defendant believes that the court had no reason to arrest him.

According to Nikolai Parshin, the first secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), at a rally in Volgograd with a demand of resignation of the Governor of the Volgograd Region Sergey Bozhenov, there were detentions and provocations.

In Baku, on March 14, Gabil Veliev, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Gyundelik Baku", was attacked.

In Georgia, the drivers of fixed-route taxis have decided to refrain from striking for as long as the Parliament of Georgia accepts amendments to the new labour code, said Lavrenti Alaniya, the leader of the trade union of transport workers.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has demanded from the Russia's Government to answer – before July 4 – all the questions on the case of Akhmed Buzurtanov, said the lawyer Musa Pliev.

Mikhail Savva, Deputy Chairman of the Public Council under the Governor of Krasnodar Territory for Development of Civil Society Institutes and the director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre, has stated an incorrect behaviour of law enforcers during inspections of non-profit organizations (NPOs) of the Krasnodar Territory.

The Kashatag District of Nagorno-Karabakh has begun constructing apartment buildings and individual houses for the Armenian families who came from Syria. First apartments will be handed over to tenants already in mid-April, said the spokesman of the district administration.

In Yerevan, in Freedom Square, supporters of Raffi Ovannisyan, the leader of the faction "Heritage" have held a rally and announced collection of signatures in support of the ex-presidential candidate.

As decided by the government of South Ossetia, the electricity debts of the inhabitants of the township "Solnechny" in Tskhinvali will be imposed on the Mayoralty of the country's capital, as Vadim Gabaraev, the Acting Mayor of Tskhinvali told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the Khachmaz District Court of Azerbaijan has announced a verdict at the trial of a group of six persons accused of organizing public disorders (riots) in the city of Guba. Four defendants will be imprisoned, and two others were sentenced conditionally.

Residents of the Dagestani city of Izberbash reported that as a result of damaging the pipeline during excavation by builders, the gas supply was switched off.