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Participants of the picket held in front of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) building for the Krasnodar Territory have been detained. The claimed aim of the action, which was organized by local activists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), was in the demand that the police should respect human rights.

Today, the Khamovniki District Court of Moscow tried to continue the litigation "Ramzan Kadyrov versus Oleg Orlov". However, after Andrei Krasnenkov, legal representative of the head of Chechnya, failed to appear in the courtroom, the trial was postponed till April 18.

Sergey Chizh, a former law enforcement officer of Stavropol, was found guilty of abuse of office and sentenced to three years of conditional imprisonment.

The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has announced a search of two women-residents of the Kizlyar District on suspicion of involvement in terror activities; according to some sources, they could have left for Moscow, the MIA has reported today.

The Caucasian independent magazine "Dosh" held a social poll in Ingushetia, asking the population about their attitude to the former and current heads of the republic. The question was worded as follows: "Who do you trust more: Ruslan Aushev, Murat Zyazikov or Yunus-Bek Evkurov?"

The regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) showed the greatest increase in population in the period from 2002 to 2010. As indicated in the preliminary results of Census-2010, published by the "Rosstat" (Russian Federal State Statistic Service), the number of residents here has increased up to 9.49 million, or by 6.3 percent under the overall decline of the population of the Russian Federation within this period by 1.6 percent (by 2.2 million).

The preliminary investigation of the case of oppositionist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, who was arrested on March 4 in the city of Gandzha, is over. Although the investigation has accused the young man of evasion from military service, his lawyers and human rights activists believe that Bakhtiyar is persecuted for political reasons. The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) refused to open a criminal investigation into his beating by the police.

The Nobel Prize Laureate, novelist Orhan Pamuk, who raised the issue of Armenians' genocide in his speeches, was found guilty of insulting the Turkish nation and will have to pay a serious fine.

According to preliminary estimates, 17 persons have been killed in an air attack on the militants' base in Ingushetia. As reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), after the operation power agents accused two detainees of preparing the terror act at the "Domodedovo" Airport.

The People's Party of Armenia is striving to become an alternative oppositional political force, its chairman Tigran Karapetyan said today at a rally. The party leader again accused the Armenian authorities of their anti-people policy, which has led to mass migration.

The authorities of Chechnya spread a statement denying having purchased Premium class cars for a recently formed sub-unit "Riot squad special battalion "Grozny". The fact of this purchase became public thanks to Rustem Adagamov (drugoi), one of the most well-known Russian bloggers, who posted photos of the cars in his LiveJournal.

A contract duty serviceman of Interior troops of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the Russian Federation was killed tonight in his house in Kizlyar, Dagestan.

Three participants of an oppositional action in defense of the detainees' rights in the capital of Georgia have been sentenced by the court to an administrative arrest, four others will have to pay a fine to a sum of 400 lari (about 230 dollars).

A video was filmed in Dagestan showing a surgeon operating a woman under the general anaesthesia, who is dancing, laughing and quitting the room in the course of surgery.

The civil activist Magomed Khazbiev, who was arrested after dispersal of the protest action against violent disappearances in Nazran, is now back at large, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Major- General Ovannes Tamamyan, ex-head of the Chief Department of the Criminal Search of the Police of Armenia, is accused of abuse of power duties. The officer is under threat of imprisonment for the term of 2-6 years. On March 24, the Court of Yerevan ruled to arrest him for tow months.

In the central districts of Astrakhan, the ground water is flooding the yards and houses of local residents; the reason is in worn-out engineering utilities, absence of the storm water drainage system and location of ground water close to the surface.

As a result of an accident at the water main Edis-Tskhinvali, which was caused by a mudflow, the capital of South Ossetia remained without water.

In Vladikavkaz, a charge was presented to Soslan Abaev, 30, detained on suspicion of murdering Khetag Kozaev, World Youth Champion in boxing. Abaev rejects his guilt and refuses to evidence.

Today at night, Seimur Khaziev, 29, an observer of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom) and a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was kidnapped and beaten. Currently, he is back at large.