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Today, the case dealing with the attack on Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, has received a new development after Akhilgov had addressed the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Nazran with an application asking to attract oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev as an accused person of the recent attack on him.

Rizvan Elbiev, a native of Chechnya, is exposed to mockeries at Corrective Colony No. 4, located in Vyazniki, Vladimir Region. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by his sister - Saikhat Elmurzaeva, who lives in Ingushetia.

According to the information of the General Consulate of the Russian Federation in the city of Brno and the Czech authorities, the issue of the stay of six Russian tourists in the country will be positively resolved within a couple of hours. Murat Temirov, official spokesman of the Pyatigorsk Linguistic University told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On March 2, in Abkhazia, at a meeting in Gali, the working group on prevention of and reaction to incidents in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflicts zone, no agreement was reached on any point. This was reported by Levan Tevzaya, who represents the government of the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic in exile, recognized by Tbilisi. Delegates from Abkhazia, Russia, Georgia UN and EU took part in the meeting.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has established numerous facts of deliberate overpricing of medicinal goods by medical establishments and drugstores of the republic. Nine officials are brought to administrative responsibility.

On March 1-14, the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre in Moscow holds a photo exhibition by Yuri Ivaschenko entitled "The Eradicated", presenting a series of documentary photos about two nationalities living in the south of Russia - Yazidis and Batumi Kurds-Kurmanches.

In Sochi, by Olympiad-2014, every interested person can learn English free of charge. This was announced at today's press conference by Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov.

Today, President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov has signed the Decree "On Structure of Executive Power of the Republic Dagestan", which transforms a number of ministries and liquidated some bodies of the republic's executive power.

Citizen of Georgia Demur Gogokhiya, who served his term in the Dranda Prison in Abkhazia, died from sharp kidney insufficiency, not from beatings. This was stated today to journalists in Sukhumi by Guram Shoua, chief physician of the Agudzeri Hospital, who made his comments on the information from the Georgian party about Gogokhiya's violent death.

In Dagestan, on March 1, the day of passing a verdict by the republic's Supreme Court on the murder case of Magomedhabib Umakhanov - nephew of the Mayor of Khasavyurt Saigidpasha Umakhanov - the jury was disbanded, because jurymen had contacts with advocates.

Magomed Shamilov, chairman of the independent trade union of law-enforcement bodies and prosecutors, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the head of the militia of public safety of the Sovietskiy ROVD of Makhachkala had fined him for an administrative offence.

Today, the Baku Appeal Court, chaired by Gail Mamedov, continued considering the complaint lodged by bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade.

The family of the assassinated owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" Magomed Evloev is unhappy with the decision of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia and drafts complaints to the SC of Russia and the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR).

The administration of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Dorstroyholding" has obliged all the workers engaged in construction of the Gimri Tunnel, without any exception, to undergo x-ray examination. The necessary medical equipment was brought to the construction site specifically for this purpose.

In the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar Territory, employees of the ICPO made a search in the flat of Sergey Gubar - Alexei Dymovskiy's advocate.

In Novorossisk, the person who attacked human rights activist Vadim Karastelyov was detained not by local militiamen but by employees of the Federal Drug Control Service (known as "Gosnarkokontrol"), while the attacker was receiving instructions by a mobile phone. This was reported by Vadim's son - Alexei Karastelyov - to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

After the end of the active phase of the special operation conducted in Ekazhevo village, relatives of those murdered there insist that it was an extrajudicial execution.

March 3 was the 320th day after cancellation in the Chechen Republic of the longstanding counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime. From that moment on, the casualty rate as a result of the armed opposition of the underground against power agencies in Chechnya has reached 292 persons, in fact twice the figure of the same period prior to the CTO cancellation, when 154 persons were lost.

The preliminary hearing on the claim lodged by dismissed Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy against the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of the Krasnodar Territory, due to take place today at the Pervomaiskiy District Court of Krasnodar, was cancelled, as Judge Svetlana Mordovina has announced.

The authorities of the Chechen Republic have officially announced that the rumours about introduction of taxation of domestic animals and poultry have nothing to do with reality. The efforts of local administrations who make house-by-house visits and register livestock and poultry are explained only by the intention of the authorities to have a "clear idea about the population of privately owned animals."