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Today, the Prime Minister of Georgia has promised to suspend the construction of a Namakhvan hydroelectric power plant (HPP) for 9-12 months in order to thoroughly check its impact on the environment. Foreign experts are to be engaged in the examination of the HPP project.

Today, oppositionists have held a protest action in Yerevan. The opposition considers unacceptable the statement voiced by the secretary for the Security Council of Armenia, who did not rule out the revision of relations with Turkey.

Campaign to smear a policeman who spoke about extrajudicial executions in Chechnya; abolition of martial law in Armenia; arrest of Maikop Mayor, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 22-28, 2021, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Athletes Magomedrasul Khasbulaev, Magomed Bibulatov, and Arthur Beterbiev, members of the Chechen team, received keys to Mercedes cars from the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, the leader of Chechnya reported.

After the autumn war, 15 houses stay completely destroyed in the Krasny Bazar community. New 150 private houses are planned to be built.

Elchin Mamed, an Azerbaijani human rights defender, convicted of theft, has complained about his leg pains and difficulties in walking, his colleagues have informed.

After the opposition rally in Yerevan, law enforcers detained brothers of Ishkhan Sagatelyan, the coordinator of the "Movement to Save Motherland", the oppositionist himself has informed.

During the week of March 22-28, 2021, during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no information about the casualties or wounded persons was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

During the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, about 11,000 Armenian participants were wounded, 885 of them have received the disability status; and about 1500 others are under rehabilitation after their wounds, Armenian military doctors have counted.

The oppositional "Movement to Save Motherland" will seek the actual resignation of Nikol Pashinyan from the post of Prime Minister, participants of the rally held in central Yerevan have stated.

At night on March 27, several dozen supporters of Nika Meliya held a disobedience action in Rustavi demanding freedom for him and other political prisoners.

The widow of Manvel Grigoryan, the former chairman of the "Yerkrapa" Union of Volunteers, who accused of embezzlement together with her husband, has announced the creation of a new union, the "Fifth Brigade".

The Russian Ethnographic Museum is holding an exhibition of unique Kaitag embroidery of 18-19th centuries, which has gained worldwide fame due to its resemblance to avant-garde movements in painting. In Soviet times, the tradition of this embroidery was interrupted and was revived in the Kaitag District of Dagestan only at the end of the 20th century; now hundreds of local females are skilled in this craft.

The amendments to the legislation of Armenia, which provide for a threefold increase in the amount of compensations for libel and insult, are threatening the freedom of the media and speech in the country, the international human rights organization Freedom House has stated.

Today, in Tbilisi, activists of the "Movement for Georgia" have held a rally near the building of the "Georgian Dream" Party, demanding to cancel the results of the parliamentary elections. After clashes with law enforcers, five protesters were taken to the police.

The opposition, which demanded the resignation of Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has treated the early parliamentary elections in the country as a compromise that would allow Armenia to get out of political crisis, political analysts believe.

Accompanied by peacemakers, the residents of the village of Noragyukh in Nagorno-Karabakh received humanitarian aid in the form of basic necessities; and the local outpatient clinic received equipment for providing emergency medical care, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Dagestani publics have posted a video with apologies of two young men who were driving in a car with open doors and loud music along the Moscow Ring Highway (known as MKAD). Instagram users were outraged by law enforcers' harsh actions during detention of the young men and treated their public apologies as unnecessary.

Brothers Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, arrested on suspicion of supporting a Chechen militant from Aslan Byutukaev's grouping, have no complaints about health problems and look satisfactory, their advocates have informed.

The three law enforcers, whom the mother of Islam Barzukaev, a resident of Derbent, accused of terrorism, considers involved in torturing her son, have filed a lawsuit against the mother, Elena Barzukaeva. They demand from her to declare the information spread by her about their involvement in torturing her son as false, apologize and compensate their moral harm.