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On March 16, a total of 31,367 civilians were evacuated through the humanitarian corridor from the city of Mariupol, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ukraine, more than 200 people were evacuated from the Donetsk Region.

The Chechen law enforcers sent to take part in the hostilities in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were recruited from private security units and patrol-and-post service; their preparedness for the mission is very low, Alexander Khodakovsky, the commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), has stated.

Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe due to the damage of the gas pipeline located in Azerbaijani territory; while border villages are shelled, activists of the National Democratic Pole (hereinafter – the Pole) stated at their action in Yerevan. They demanded that the US and France take action in relation to Azerbaijan.

Tamara Grodnikova, who went out to a solo picket in central Volgograd on March 16, was detained by the police. She went to the protest action with posters against the blocking of independent media and social media resources, as well as in support of Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor of the Russian Channel One.

Investigators have banned Saadat Djakhangir, a member of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), from leaving Azerbaijan for medical treatment abroad under the motive that she is a witness in a criminal case.

As an interim measure on the Ukraine's appeal in connection with the Russian military operation, the UN International Court of Justice has demanded from Russia to stop hostilities.

Forced migrants from Nagorno-Karabakh held an action in front of the building of the Armenian government. They demanded to resume negotiations with Azerbaijan on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.

There are reports about five soldiers from Dagestan killed during the special military operation in Ukraine. According to the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot”, in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the information about at least 30 killed natives of Dagestan has been officially confirmed.

Today, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has reported that State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov discussed with Chechen special forces fighters a plan to assault the “Azovstal” metallurgical plant in the city of Mariupol.

According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia, the information that the Azerbaijani armed forces advanced one kilometre into the Kapan municipality of the Syunik region does not correspond to real facts. Residents of the Nerkin Hand community complain that they had to stop driving cattle to pastures after Azerbaijani soldiers had been deployed in their new positions.

Like Ramzan Kadyrov, Adam Delimkhanov travelled to Ukraine to cheer up Chechen fighters and demonstrate his involvement in the special military operation, experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” explained.

The performance "Two in the Dark", staged by the young director, Alexandra Teinina, in Vladikavkaz, is quite unique, original and unexpected, and correlates with the events now underway in Ukraine, spectators have pointed out.

Dear readers! The "Caucasian Knot" has been working for you since 2001. We have always tried to write truthfully and honestly about what happens in the regions of Southern Russia, and in Northern and Southern Caucasus. But today the "Caucasian Knot" is blocked in the territory of the Russian Federation by the decision of the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office.

The residents of the Karabakh village of Khramort, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe that they will be able to live in peace only if Azerbaijani militaries are removed from the village.

Authorities should be tolerant of constructive criticism and conscientiously perform their functions, experts have stated in their comments on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the complaint of the "Caucasian Knot" in connection with the libel case initiated by the administration of the Volgograd Region.

For the third month now, the case of the death of Ilya Smolin, a resident of Yeysk, has not been investigated; and law enforcers are getting off with replies, Oleg Smolin, Ilya's father, has stated.

The international community is focused on the events in Ukraine and fails to pay enough attention to the looming humanitarian catastrophe in Nagorno-Karabakh, the NGOs have stated.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied, 12 years later, the complaint lodged by the "Caucasian Knot", having recognized violations in the case on the lawsuit of the administration of the Volgograd Region on libel.

Since the beginning of the fighting in Ukraine, it was reported about at least 102 killed residents of Southern Russia. These data are obtained due to the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” and based on the confirmed information. The death toll includes 66 natives of Northern Caucasus and 36 residents of the Southern Federal District. The most of the killed were natives of Dagestan: it was reported about at least 25 killed natives of the republic.

Trucks with humanitarian aid went from Dagestan to residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, who are now accommodated in Crimea.