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Residents of the village of Novosasitli, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, have no information on the fate of four of their fellow villagers, detained by power agents on March 7. The situation in the village is strained, as the head of the village told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the city of Nevinnomyssk hosted a picket of the unregistered nationalist party "Novaya Sila" (New Force) with a demand to withdraw the Stavropol Territory out of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and introduction of a special migration regime.

As of March 9, based on the law "On Amnesty", 8503 prisoners have left their jails, the Ministry of Corrections has reported.

The guardianship authorities of Novocherkassk are suspected that they had failed to take proper measures in the situation with the 8-year-old Amalia Novikova, who died of meningitis. According to investigators, the girl lived with her mother, who had been deprived of parental rights.

Almaz Kerimova, born in 1998, a resident of the township of Gyulyustan of the city of Gandzha, made an attempt of self-immolation. With third-degree burns she was taken to hospital.

The Parliament of Georgia has passed – by majority of votes – a resolution, under which the country will continue its way towards integration into the EU and NATO and will not have diplomatic relations with the countries that have recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Today, Tbilisi has hosted a march of feminists dated to the International Women's Day. The action was attended by about 40 persons.

Vladimir Bedukadze, the author of the video showing acts of torture applied to inmates of a Georgian prison, has announced a hunger strike demanding a fair trial of his case by the court, which runs from March 4 in the closed regime.

The defence of the ex-presidential candidate Vardan Sedrakyan, arrested on suspicion of an attempt during the election on another presidential candidate Paruir Airikyan, has filed a complaint to the Court of Appeal against his arrest.

This morning in Vladikavkaz, about 50 ambulance drivers gathered at the station and demanded a meeting with the leadership of the regional branch of the Medical Insurance Fund and the city health department. They said that they would not go to work because of wage payment delays. Representatives of the city administration came to meet the strikers and promised to solve the problem.

In the evening on March 7, in the village of Mingrelskaya, the Abinsk District of the Krasnodar Territory, an armed conflict burst out, resulting in the death of the village ataman Sergey Osminin, and another Cossack injured his leg, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Baku, on the eve of the protest action against the non-combat losses in the army scheduled for March 10, the members of the civil movement "Nida" Bakhtiyar Guliev, Mohammed Azizov and Shakhin Novruzov. This was reported stated by Uzeir Mamedli, a member of the board of the movement. In Gandzha, the police have detained Makhir Bairamly, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, said his wife Gyulbeniz Ulutyurk.

The two Chechen hafiz schools (of experts who know the Koran by heart) made the first release of graduates. The hafiz schools in Tsentaroy and Gudermes were finished by 61 young residents of Chechnya.

Leonid Lakerbaya, Prime Minister of Abkhazia, said he would not accept the opposition's demand for his resignation. In his turn, Raul Khajimba, the chairman of the oppositional "Forum of National Unity of Abkhazia" has stated that the country needs reforms.

In South Ossetia, refugees from Georgia – families of fire victims and families with many children, who moved in 2012 to new apartments of the neighbourhood "Solnechny", may be left without electric power because of their rising debts for electricity.

Today, the population of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) commemorates victims of political repressions against the Balkar people.

The journalist Faramaz Allakhverdiev, sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, has gone on hunger strike and sewed up his mouth. His protest is against rejection of his petition to hold repeated hearings on his case.

The governmental building now housing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia is being sold to Eduardo Ernekyan, an Argentine businessman of Armenian origin. According to his programme, the building will house a five-star hotel.

Absalitdin Murzaev, the head of the Board of Elders of the Kumyk People, who was beaten on March 3 in Dagestan, is sure that crime can be solved quickly only given the want of local authorities.

Today, activists of the NGO "National Front" have held a protest action in Tbilisi near the Turkish Embassy against Islamization of Adzharia. The action was about 50 persons strong.