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The persons involved in explosions in Moscow metro in 2010 have been liquidated; and the investigation of the case is in deadlock, Andrei Soldatov, editor-in-chief of the website "Agentura.Ru", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Ruslan Kurbanov, a political scientist, agrees that over the past year no coherent picture of what happened at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations has been presented.

The fact that a large-scale special operation against militants, which was held on March 28, was being prepared in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, was a secret for local law enforcers. According to relatives of the brothers Ilez and Islam Yandiev, detained during the operation, power agents planted ammunition, when they searched their house. According to law enforcers, the arrested brothers were not only involved in the explosion at the "Domodedovo" Airport, but were also preparing a new terror act.

Strong winds in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) left hospitals, kindergartens and schools without roofs; in Ingushetia, opposition Khazbiev, sentenced to administrative arrest, was released after Evkurov's interference; in central Yerevan public set up a tent for Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, who is on hunger strike for the second week, - look these and other events in the review of the week of March 21-27, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Under the outcomes of the 2010 all-Russian census, about 90 long-livers (aged 100 and more) live in Kabardino-Balkaria, said Larissa Chelysheva, head of the census division of the "Kabbalkstat" (Department for Statistics of Kabardino-Balkaria).

A number of NGOs have held an action in Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi with a demand to release the opposition activists, who spoke in support of Georgian prisoners and were detained on March 25.

As stated by Olga Petkevich, a resident of the village of Leninskiy, Matveyev-Kurgan District of Rostov Region, the principal of the village school and agents of the local ROVD (District Interior Division) questioned her minor children at home, when there were no parents. In her opinion, the reason for interrogation could be in the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses, which she has started confessing recently. On the other hand, the inspector on minors' matters said that the check was organized, because the children often miss classes at school.

At the Moscow City Court, where the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova is considered, prosecutors have released the bugging record, made in the flat leased by the defendants shortly before their detention. They discussed their impressive arsenal - numerous pistols and submachine guns, and the course of investigation into the murders of Markelov and Baburova.

Today, after 16 days of hunger strike, Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the Armenian oppositional "Heritage" Party stopped his protest action. The politician said that now he intends to continue his struggle for realization of his demands by other methods.

Two brothers, Islam and Ilez Yandiev detained in Ingushetia, suspected of involvement in the act of terror in the Moscow airport "Domodedovo" are currently in Vladikavkaz.

None of the gunmen of Kabardino-Balkaria has yet expressed a desire to go to law enforcement agencies as self-reported criminals in response to a call of a group of residents of Baksan district to lay down arms of their own free will.

Ahmat Kagermanov representing the Kagermanovs clan in Moscow states that the incident which took place on February, 28, in Tverskaya street had no connection with the creative work of young Chechen writer Arslan Khasavov.

Baku hosted a forum in support of the freedom of the press. Representatives of the free press and the civil society of Azerbaijan demanded to find and punish the perpetrators of the attack on the observer of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper Seimur Khaziev.

Vakha Chapanov, head of the Information-Analytical Agency "Maximum", was summoned on 24 March to the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Mr Chapanov himself.

Hundreds of people are bringing flowers to the places of explosion at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury metro stations. A few minutes after the stations were opened the tables set up for the purpose were in fact covered with red carnations, lilies, roses and chrysanthemums. Now, people are just laying flowers on the granite floor.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended by two months the custody of Ahmed and Fatima Evloev, brother and sister of the suicide bomber, who exploded the "Domodedovo" Airport; they are suspected of complicity in commission of the terror act.

The process on the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova has heard excerpts from the records of tapping of the apartment of the accused Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis. According to the prosecution, this material, evidence against the defendants, while the defence believes that the evidence is insufficient.

The Prosecutor's Office is conducting a check in connection with the incident in a school of the city of Belorechensk, Krasnodar Territory, where a woman-teacher of physical culture died from tuberculosis (TB). The check should clear out why the fatally sick teacher had taught at school for 6 months.

According to a high-ranking source from power structures, no remains of Dokku Umarov, one of the leaders of North-Caucasian militants, were found so far among the militants liquidated in the operation of Russian secret services on March 28.

As announced by Vladislav Ryazantsev, coordinator of the Left-Wing Front, actions on the Day of Anger are scheduled on April 12 in Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog and Shakhty.

In the morning on March 28 employees of the Pravoberezhny ROVD (District Interior Division) of North Ossetia detained the resident of the republic who on March 25 reported to the on duty unit of the Beslan OVD that an explosion device had been planted in the building of the polyclinic.