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On March 24, in the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, a soldier of Interior Troops of the Russian MIA mistakenly shelled a car with his colleague - an OMON (special militia) fighter - inside. The latter was hospitalized with a minor injury.

In the city of Nazran (Ingushetia), the Internet provider - the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "ITT" - has restored access to the Internet medium "Caucasian Knot".

The money was sent via the Japanese office of the International Red Cross. Besides, the Georgian authorities are still ready to send drinking water and a rescue to Japan.

In Georgia, the police have detained several oppositional activists who were holding a protest action in defence of prisoners' rights. Merab Chikashvili, an oppositional leader, and Giya Burdzhanadze, a member of the National Assembly, are among the detainees.

Today at night, in the Imereti Lowland of Sochi, in the territory of the "Rossiya" State Farm, in the area of the "Bolshevik" recreation base, a 40-meter-long metal fence was erected across the beach, local ecologists report.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) and Heidi Hautala, chair of the subcommittee on human rights of the European Parliament, express their concern about the beating and detention in Ingushetia of Magomed Khazbiev, a civil activist, and his two brothers, who were arrested on March 23 in Nazran shortly after dispersal of a spontaneous protest action against violent disappearances. The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov instructed his power agents to provide him with all the necessary information about the oppositionist's detention.

Militia is searching for four men who committed powerful explosions in a food store in the settlement of Malaya Areshevka, Kizlyar district of Dagestan, on March, 24, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

A MV HANNIBAL II tanker among whose crew there was one citizen of Georgia captured by Somali pirates has been released.

On March, 24, experts on the Caucasus in Moscow discussed the historic past of the Сherkessians and their today's problems at a conference "The Сherkessian question": historic memory, historiographic discourse, political strategies".

Uses of the services of close corporation "ITT" internet provider in Nazran (Ingushetia) have been out of access to online-media "Caucasian Knot" since March, 16. The provider's technical support staff cannot explain the reason.

The actors of the Olympic construction in Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, have committed themselves to restore the basin ecosystem of the Mzymta River, where sports-and-tourism facilities and roads are built.

The Human Rights Ombudsman of Armenia Karen Andreasyan has treated the police's ban to install a tent for Raffi Ovannisyan, Chairman of the "Heritage", who continues his hunger strike in Freedom Square in Yerevan, as a human rights violation.

During the week on March 14-20, the low intensity armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 12 lives and injured at least 10 persons. These are the calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" made on the basis of its own sources and other open data outlets.

The Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev and his brother Berd, who were sentenced today to ten days of administrative arrest, were again taken instead of the Nazran IVS (temporary detention facility) to some other unknown place. This was reported by their sister Khadi Khazbieva.

The Moscow Court has issued a warrant in absentia to arrest Alexei Korshunov, 28, a Muscovite and the alleged killer of Eduard Chuvashov, a Moscow City Court judge, in April 2010. According to the investigation the reason of the murder was the judge's participation in judicial processes on extremist crimes.

Currently, policemen from the Sunzha ROVD (District Interior Division) from Ingushetia are searching the house of Zurab Tsechoev, an employee of the human rights organization "MASHR", located in the village of Troitskaya, Sunzha District. The "Caucasian Knot" was informed about it by Vakha Chapanov, head of the Ingush News Agency "Maximum".

On the video record from the place of abduction of the opposition leader Magomed Khazbiev, which was committed on March 23 from his father's house in Nazran, the kidnappers are visible - there were about twenty of them. They were armed men dressed in camouflage; some of them were in masks, but there were also people in ordinary police uniform with open faces.

On March 22, Magomed Gorchkhanov, a resident of the village of Plievo in Ingushetia, addressed his applications to the authorities of Ingushetia and human rights activists asking them to help in searching his kidnapped brother Ilez Gorchkhanov and protect his constitutional rights.

The Caucasus is not indifferent to the Japanese tragedy, however, while helping Japan, it calls on its countrymen to return home; in Armenia, "Zvartnots" Airport and "Armavia" Airline cannot agree on cooperation; fans wishing to watch the World Cup in Freestyle Wrestling in Dagestan were calmed down by truncheons; in central Yerevan oppositionist is on hunger strike in anticipation of changes in the country, - look these and other events in the review of the week of March 14-20, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today in the morning, fifteen ecological activists have blocked the construction works in the territory of Cape Vidny, Khosta District of Sochi, where they are currently laying the railway track and building a new tunnel. Both objects are elements of the Olympic construction programme.