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In 2019, human rights violations and persecutions of activists continued in Russia and Azerbaijan, says the report of the international organization "Freedom House" released on March 4. Human rights defenders ranked Georgia and Armenia as partly free countries.

Ramzan Kadyrov has criticized those residents of Chechnya, who are dissatisfied with the fact that he appoints his close relatives to high republic's posts. He has labelled the opponents of such a cadre policy as "goats" and "shaitans".

Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the murdered shepherd brothers, has resumed his actions in Makhachkala demanding to investigate his sons' assassination.

On March 4, the special operation, conducted in the village of Alkun, Sunzha District, during which a suspected militant was killed, was the first armed incident in Ingushetia in 2020 and the fourth one in the past 12 months. Law enforcers are searching for casualty's possible accomplices.

Over the week after the attack on Tumso Abdurakhmanov, Chingiz Akhmadov, the head of the pro-governmental "Chechnya Today" News Agency, placed four posts on the Instagram, in which he ridiculed the blogger's version of the assassination attempt. Some social network users have condemned Tumso's opponents for their persistent attempts to expose the blogger as a liar.

Departure of residents of South Ossetia to Georgian hospitals is permitted, but upon their return, people will be subjected to quarantine for two weeks because of the coronavirus, the chief sanitary inspector of South Ossetia announces.

A person who fell victim to a special operation in the village of Alkun in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia was presumably a native of Dagestan.

The acting President of Abkhazia has demanded from the Russian Ambassador to submit the information on the basis of which the Russian media reported about poisoning of Aslan Bzhaniya. If no information is submitted, and the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation does not institute a case on poisoning, that will be regarded as an unfriendly act, the authorities of Abkhazia announce.

Islam prohibits drinking alcoholic beverages only for Muslims, without limiting people who profess other religions, note Islamic experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". During anti-alcohol raids, Chechen law enforcers do not ask buyers of alcoholic beverages about their confession, local residents note.

On March 3, the journalists, Izida Chania and Olga Djonua, were attacked during a protest action held outside the government building of Abkhazia. The Union of Journalists of Abkhazia (UJA) has called on law enforcement bodies to start an inquiry into the incident.

The Swedish Prosecutor's Office (PO) suspects Ruslan Mamaev, a Russian citizen, of attempting to kill the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, the "Vayfond" Association reported on March 3. The attacker's photos have been posted on the Facebook in Ruslan Mamaev's page, the blogger has confirmed.

The residents of Azerbaijan placed under coronavirus quarantine report dirty bedding and absence of heating and water in hospitals.

If the hospitalization of Aslan Bzhaniya, a presidential candidate in Abkhazia, prevents him from taking part in the election, this will entail a full-scale political crisis with unpredictable consequences, the Abkhazian journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Mikail Kurbanov, the father of the Kurbanov brothers from the Kayakent District of Dagestan, has stated to the court that investigators refused to initiate a case on his applications about his sons' kidnapping.

The refusal of the Chechen branch of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to register an application about a possible crime and check Kadyrov's threats against authors of negative materials and comments is illegal, human rights defenders believe.

After the creation of an opposition coalition against election frauds, Elman Guliev and Elshad Israfil, candidates for MPs from the "Musavat" Party, decided to stop their hunger strike.

At an action held in front of the Abkhazian Cabinet of Ministers, about 400 people demanded the resignation of the government and the acting President of Abkhazia. The protestors insist that the presidential election should be rescheduled.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan dismissed the cassation appeal filed by Fuad Akhmedli, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), about a refusal in the conditional early relief (CER) for him.

The health state of Elman Guliev and Elshad Israfil is getting worse, but they refuse to stop their hunger strike.

Djambulat Umarov, Chechen Minister for National Policy, is not competent enough to judge the danger of the spread of coronavirus in Northern Caucasus, users of Instagram note. Some local residents negatively perceive the Djambulat Umarov's appeal to tourists with a call to visit Chechnya.