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Attacks on natives from Caucasus and Central Asia in the cities of Russia become more violent. It was stated by the participants of the press conference "Xenophobic Moods in Russian Youth Take Form of Epidemic", held today, on the All-European Day against Racism, at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow.

An hour before his own murder, Chairman of the State Television and Radio Company "Dagestan" Gaji Abashilov spoke about the journalist of Channel One Ilyas Shurpaev who was killed in Moscow.

In Yerevan, an action in memory of those who perished in the collision between peaceful demonstrators and power agents of Armenia that took place on March 1. Several thousands took part in protest against the violence that was used on that day.

The body of journalist Ilyas Shurpaev was found today in an apartment located in the Veshie Vody Street in Moscow. The neighbours saw a smoke coming out of the flat and called firemen who found the body inside.

The aim of the power agents of Ingushetia who shot dead Rustam Mutsolgov on March 12 in Troitskaya village was to liquidate and not to capture the young man.

Today, the Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia held a hearing on charges against the North-Ossetian NGO "Voice of Beslan" of extremism. The Court has ruled to examine the information materials of the "Voice of Beslan".

On March 19, the Krasnodar Territorial Court ruled to leave four ex-fighters of Sochi OMON (Special Militia) behind bars. The fighters are accused of mass beating of tourists in children's camp "Druzhba" (Friendship).

The KGB (Committee for State Security) of South Ossetia denies the information disseminated by Russian and Georgian mass media that its officials had searched representatives of the OSCE and United Nations when the latter tried to survey the reserved garbage dump located in the southern suburb of Tskhinvali within the project on environment protection and confiscated a photo and video cameras from them together with filmed materials, but then returned everything back.

At the preliminary hearing at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case about the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, the officials of the Investigatory Committee have refused to initiate a criminal case on the fact of using tortures against the defendants.

The community of Gyumri, the second-largest city of Armenia, as well as people from other cities and villages of the country, are raising money to pay the penalty awarded to the Gyumri-based GALA TV Company by the Administrative Court.

The European Court for Human Rights has found the guilt of the authorities of Russia of violent disappearance of two brothers Azievs in 2000 in Chechnya.

The hunger strike held by the opposition will continue till the parliamentary elections in Georgia. Georgiy Gachechiladze, leader of the Party "Greens to Georgia" told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On March 19, the Military Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia continued the hearing of the case of soldier Darkhan Seitmagambetov who knocked a woman down to death in November 2007 when he was driving his ATC-80 (Armoured Troop Carrier).

At the preliminary hearing of the criminal case initiated in relation to the attack on the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, the defendants and their advocates expressed doubts of the objectivity of the jury.

The website of the Ren-TV Channel has placed a reaction to the request of Ingush MPs to stop broadcasting of the Channel in the territory of the Republic.

In the Stavropol Territory, a criminal case has been initiated against a teacher of secondary school No. 2 of the village of Aleksandrovskoye under the article on driving to suicide of a 9th form pupil.

Sources from the Election Office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan assert that 12 activists of Armenian opposition have been exposed to tortures at the penitentiary establishments of Yerevan.

In Krasnodar, a sergeant suspected of beating soldier Alexander Ivanov, was placed on March 18 into the temporary insulation facility.

Today, representatives of the OSCE Mission and engineers from the United Nations Mission have arrived to Tskhinvali for preparation to implementation of one of the projects. According to the news item of the Georgian TV Company "Rustavi-2", the work of the members of international organizations was disrupted by the KGB of South Ossetia.

The Nalchik City Court has rejected the complaint of advocate Larissa Dorogova claiming to recognize illegitimate the actions of the employees of the Nalchik SIZO in Kabardino-Balkaria who refused to let her in to her client Zaur Tokhov for rendering legal assistance to him.