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A detained woman from Vladikavkaz confessed to pouring paint over a banner in support of the Russian Armed Forces, the police reported.

The Supreme Court of Russia has recognized as legitimate the refusals to investigate complaints about torture filed by residents of the Kurchaloi District of Chechnya, who were convicted on the charge of terrorism, and that contradicts the position of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), emphasizes the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*.

An attempt to return Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Georgia by force will turn into a protracted conflict and cause irreparable damage to Georgians' interrelations with Ossetians and Abkhazians, the Georgian political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

The Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has held events in honour of the Revival Day of the Balkar people. Residents of the republic told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the deportation and life's difficulties in exile.

The three journalists who held solo pickets in Makhachkala in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev were forced to give written explanations to the police.

The residents of Stepanakert interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" fear that the gas supply has been resumed temporarily; and the Azerbaijani party will use the gas pipeline passing through its territory from Armenia for its own purposes. They also noted that the main thing for Nagorno-Karabakh people is not the gas supply restart, but the onset of peace.

The President of Russia has awarded Ramzan Kadyrov the rank of Lieutenant General, Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, announced on March 28.

Although the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, disclosed the whereabouts of Ruslan Geremeev, a figurant in the Boris Nemtsov murder case, human rights defenders rule out any chances of interrogating Geremeev.

In Kalmykia, two residents were fined 30,000 roubles each under the new law on discrediting the armed forces. The police also drew up protocols under the above law against four activists, including the editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Sovremennaya Kalmykia’ (Modern Kalmykia), who posted a video on YouTube several days before the new law went into effect.

Today, after having received a warning from the “Roskomnadzor” (the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media), the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta” has announced the suspension of its publication until the end of the special military operation in Ukraine. The warning is connected with a violation of the law on foreign agents, the “Roskomnadzor” explains.

During the week of March 21-27, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

At a protest action in Baku, activists have complained that the Ministry of Defence does not assign the status of veterans to combatants in Nagorno-Karabakh, and that fact deprives them of the right to benefits.

Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia has announced that the Azerbaijani troops are still present in the zone of responsibility of Russian peacekeepers. The Armenia’s MFA demanded decisive steps to withdraw the Azerbaijani troops and also announced the need to investigate the actions of the Russian peacekeeping contingent.

According to the joint investigation released today by the “Bellingcat”*, “The Insider”*, and BBC, special service officers involved in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny followed Boris Nemtsov for several months, and natives of Chechnya were convicted for his murder.

Echo in Southern Russia of the special military operation in Ukraine; aggravation of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 21-27, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Two servicemen, who received most severe wounds during the shelling from the Azerbaijan, have been sent to the capital of Armenia, Gegam Stepanyan, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsperson, has informed. The health condition of the remaining 12 wounded persons causes no doctors' concern, he specified.

On the average, residents of small towns and medium-sized towns in Chechnya received 23,900 roubles per month in 2021; the ratio of these wages to the cost of the minimum set of goods and services is 1.43. A similar picture is in Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, Dagestan and Karachay-Cherkessia.

The statement of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) about the removal of the units of the Azerbaijani Army from their positions in the village of Farrukh is not true, the Azerbaijani MoD has claimed.

It is impossible to punish a person for a private conversation, Denis Nadein, a lawyer, has commented the court judgement against a resident of Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory), who was fined for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces after his conflict with a man over a sticker with the letter "Z". The law has uncertainties, which are often used as loopholes by law enforcers, lawyers have noted.

Policemen have detained about 10 people after the protesters against rising fuel prices blocked a street in central Tbilisi.