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To settle all the outstanding problems, Armenia and Azerbaijan should hold talks, Zbigniew Rau the Chairman of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), has suggested.

Timur Magomedomarov, a native of the Tlyaratinsky District, has perished in Ukraine. Since the start of the special operation, it has become officially known about the death of at least 65 military servicemen from Dagestan.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, failed to comment on the awarding of the rank of lieutenant general to him, but called the TV presenter, Ivan Urgant, "a great patriot."

David Gobedjishvili, who volunteered for Ukraine and died there, has been buried at home in Tkibuli.

Believers in Northern Caucasus have welcomed the holy month of Ramadan with collective prayers; in the regions, various cultural and charity events are timed to the holy month of fasting.

The authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh have explained the cut off of gas supply to Nagorno-Karabakh by a failure of the gas pipeline in Armenia. Residents of Stepanakert have said about the significantly increased costs of heating their apartments and houses with electricity during gas cuts.

The initiative of mirror withdrawal of troops threatens the security of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh and is a hidden demarcation of border sections, Armenian analysts have stated.

In Krasnodar, law enforcers have detained Alexander Aposhnyansky, an activist, who had earlier taken part in the action against the special operation in Ukraine, and drew up a protocol against him on non-payment of certain earlier fines for violating traffic rules.

Residents of Askeran, and then of other dwelling settlements of Nagorno-Karabakh, are without gas today.

During the past 24 hours, over 14,500 refugees from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) crossed the Russian border in the Rostov Region, border guards have informed.

The Gelendjik City Court has fined a 30-year-old local resident by 40,000 roubles, finding her guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

Moscow can use Anatoly Bibilov's proposal to include South Ossetia into Russia as a tool to put pressure on Georgia, the Georgian analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

The complaint of the third President of Georgia, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on his medical care and treatment in custody has been excluded from the list of cases that are under consideration, Beka Dzamashvili, a Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia has informed. Saakashvili said that he himself asked to suspend the consideration of the complaint.

On April 1, Shakhbaz Guliev, who spent six years in prison in Nagorno-Karabakh, intended to hold a protest action outside the Azerbaijani presidential administration. He planned to demand a pension, disability category and assistance in employment. Policemen detained him, but took him from the police station to the Centre for receiving complaints from citizens of Azerbaijan.

The school managers have fired Elena Baibekova, a teacher from Astrakhan, who spent five days under arrest after her pacifist picket; she was fired for absenteeism. Baibekova intends to seek reinstatement at work.

The holy month of Ramadan will start in Dagestan, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia on April 2, the Muftiates have announced.

Refugees from Ukraine are accommodated in hotels in Georgia and do not experience any problems with housing, but they are worried about material difficulties and uncertainty about the timing of their return to their homeland.

A court arrested for two months a minor resident of the village of Kaluga in the Krasnodar Territory. According to the investigators’ version, the minor suspect was a member of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi youth radical community “M.K.U.” and prepared to commit murder.

A film about residents of Dagestani villages that fell into the flood zone of the Irganai hydroelectric power plant was included in the programme of the “Artdocfest” documentary film festival, but its screening was cancelled because of an attack on Vitaly Mansky, an organizer of the film festival, and the disruption of the “Artdocfest”, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reported.

Georgia supports the international sanctions against Russia imposed because of the special operation in Ukraine. Because of this, Georgia is forced to suffer financial losses, Salome Zurabishvili, the President of Georgia, has stated.