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Fatima Tekaeva, mother of Rasul Kudaev accused of assault at Nalchik in October of 2005, witnessed for the defense in Prigorodny court of North Ossetia on the case of two women residents of Dagestan, Zalina Gabibulaeva and Zaira Akaeva, in whose car a home-made explosive device was found.

Today, a general jurisdiction court has ruled to arrest Vardan Sedrakyan, a former candidate for presidency, to two months of preliminary detention. He is suspected of organizing an attempt on another presidential candidate Paruir Airikyan.

The Azerbaijani lawyer and the head of the "Legal Enlightenment Society" Intigam Aliev has received the Homo Homini Premium for the year 2012, awarded by the Czech human rights organization "People in Need" for his special achievements in human rights activities.

Irada Djarullaeva has stated disappearance of her husband Bakhtavar Djarullaev, 27, a resident of Makhachkala. She cannot define her husband's whereabouts since March 4 and does not rule out that her husband could have been kidnapped.

Mohamed Khabilov, a resident of the city of Terek, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), jumped out of the window of the third level of the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) after receiving threats from law enforcers. He has told about it in his address to rights defenders. The local MIA denies his claims about threats.

On March 4, Magomed Biyarslanov, a medrese teacher, who was shot dead by unidentified persons on March 3 at his home, was buried in the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan.

The Constitutional Court (CC) has accepted the claim lodged by Andreas Gukasyan, a former presidential candidate in Armenia to nullify the presidential election. It will be considered on March 11 together with a similar suit lodged by Raffi Ovannisyan, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Oganes Papikyan, the press secretary of the CC.

Today is 60 years since the death of Joseph Stalin. Dissidents traditionally mark this day as a holiday; however, according to sociologists, most Russians believe that March 5 is the day of the end of "Great Terror".

One of the reasons of the collapse of the tunnel on March 3 in Sochi could be the dwelling house, built directly in the construction area without proper approvals, the builders assert.

The enhancement of the role of women in public life, economy, in elimination of discriminatory practices is hampered by traditional stereotypes and the passivity of women themselves. This was stated by the participants of the seminar held in Yerevan for businesswomen and youth of Armenia and Georgia.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, announced on March 4, continues in the territory of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. The local operational headquarters has urged local residents to remain calm and avoid panic and disorder.

Today, two solo pickets were held in Vladikavkaz against operation of the "Electrozink" Metallurgy Factory. The picketers were the sanitary doctor Atsamaz Khadikov and local resident Alan Alikov.

In Volgograd, the members of the public organization (in the process of creation) "Independent Inspection" made an inspection of motor roads with the aim to protect citizens' rights and combat corruption. The action was 30 persons strong.

Today, representatives of Raffi Ovannisyan, a former presidential candidate and the leader of the oppositional party "Heritage", have lodged a suit to the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia against the outcomes of the presidential election.

The advocates of the ex-minister of interior of Ingushetia Ruslan Meiriev and of the former head of the Nazran ROVD (District Interior Division) Ali Yandiev, accused of negligence, have appealed against the ruling of the Supreme Court of the republic to transfer the case to the Magas District Court.

In Azerbaijan, the journalist Faramaz Allakhverdiev, who was sentenced to 4.5 years of deprivation of freedom, plans to go on hunger strike since March 5. This was reported by his advocate Fariz Namazly.

After the today's meeting with Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has stated his intention to go on with the dialogue in the country and promised not to dissolve the parliament and the government. By the outcomes of the meeting, both leaders have held separate briefings, where they told about their vision as to solving the political crisis in the country.

Announcement of official outcomes of presidential elections in Armenia and non-recognition of them by the opponents of the winner Sargsyan; termination of protest action in Dagestan of Chechens-Akkies, who demanded to have their lands in the Novolak District back; inspection of Georgian producers of wine and mineral water by Russian experts; conviction in terror case in the Stavropol Territory; end of nomination of candidates for the post of Anapa Mayor – so far, ten pretenders, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of February 25-March 3, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Absalitdin Murzaev, the head of the Board of Elders of the Kumyk Nation, who was beaten on March 3 in Dagestan, was to make a report, on March 18, at the administration of the Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Russian Federation to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), on corruption in land issues in Northern Caucasus. The attack could have to do with the presentation of the report, Mr Murzaev has supposed.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has extended till July 7 the arrest of the ex-militiaman Sergey Khadjikurbanov, a figurant of the murder case of the journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, said the press service of the MCC.