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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.

The medical unit of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, is being treated, has no conditions for providing Pogorov with the medical treatment he needs, his relatives have stated.

Anatoly Bibilov, the president of South Ossetia, has used the topic of the republic's accession to Russia in order to increase his ratings at the presidential election, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

On the Genocide Day, Baku hosted a solemn ceremony of laying flowers at the obelisk of martyrs erected in memory of the victims of the March events of 1918.

Levan Machabeli, a former Georgian military, entered the Tskhinvali District aiming to commit a provocation against Russian militaries, the Committee for State Security (known as KGB) of South Ossetia has informed.

A total of 1967 residents of Dagestan are on the wanted list as members of international terrorist organizations, Abdurashid Magomedov, the head of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has announced at the session of the People's Assembly (Parliament).

By criticizing the position of the Russian delegation at talks with Ukraine, Kadyrov is trying to curry favour with Putin, at the same time claiming to increase his importance, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

Shakhin Gadjiev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, was sentenced to six years of imprisonment on the charge of drug trafficking. His party colleagues consider the sentence politically motivated.

A court in Elista again imposed a fine on Aducha Erdneev, an activist of the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people, for discrediting the Russian army. No evidence of discrediting was submitted in court, and the decision will be challenged, says Aducha Erdneev.

South Ossetia may become part of Russia as a separate subject and then unite with North Ossetia. This has been proposed today by Anatoly Bibilov, President of South Ossetia. The referendum on joining Russia will not have legal force, emphasizes Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani.

In Yerevan, participants of a protest action held in front of the UN office called on the international community to pay attention to the threat to the security of residents of Nagorno-Karabakh.