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The main problems of the "Volga-Akhtuba Floodplain" Park include the lack of clearly defined borders of villages, dacha and horticultural societies, the unorganized flow of tourists and the need to develop tourist attraction. This was announced by participants of the roundtable in Volgograd.

In Sukhumi, the car of Batal Aiba, a candidate for the MP, caught fire. A staff member of his electoral office said that it was arson.

Arsen Gasanov, who was detained by Makhachkala power agents during his Friday namaz (prayer), demands to remove him from the so-called “prophylactic registry”, treating law enforcers’ actions as lawlessness. Today, his advocate has refuted the assertions of the lawyer of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) that the order on the rules of putting people on prophylactic registry is a secret document.

Anatoly Bibilov said that the presidential candidates of South Ossetia "should not sling mud at each other." Anatoly Bibilov does not interfere in the conflict of Leonid Tibilov and Eduard Kokoity. This opinion was voiced by local journalists Alan Parastaev and Zhanna Tarkhanova.

In Yerevan, a march of city residents on protest after the death of activist Arthur Sargsyan has finished with appeals to punish the heads of departments that contributed to his long stay in custody.

During the action held by 20 tenants of the house in Imam Shamil Avenue, protestors voiced a demand against merchants to remove a shopping pavilion. Entrepreneurs claim that the pavilion has been built legally.

By the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), Leyla Arkelova, a mother of many children from Cherkessk, has been granted the right to rehabilitation. The SC has found that the actions of Arkelova, accused of slander, contained no crime elements.

After the search of the apartment of Kirill Bobro, the leader of the Stavropol branch of the "Youth Yabloko" Party, law enforcers took him away to some unknown destination. Since then, his whereabouts is unknown. This has been announced by an advocate.

The court of appeal upheld the verdict against Alexei Mandrigelya, a Krasnodar activist, who was sentenced to 10 days of arrest for a publication in a social network. This was announced by his advocate.

According to the printout of telephone conversations of Zaur Dadaev, on the day of buying the car in Moscow, which, according to investigators, was used by defendants, he was in Grozny, a Dadaev's advocate has stated at the today’s session.

The servicemen of the battalion of military police, who have been carrying out their combat mission in Syria since December 2016, will return to Chechnya in the coming days, said the spokesman of the Military Commandant's Office of the republic. Militaries’ relatives have confirmed this information.

In Baku, forced migrants demand from the Azerbaijani authorities to solve their housing problems. The authorities admit that 340,000 settlers, who reside in the country, need improvement of their living conditions, and once again have promised to speed up the process.

In Rostov-on-Don, during an interrogation at the trial, Abdurakhman Usmanov, a native of Dagestan, accused of aiding and abetting militants in Syria, claimed that he had signed the protocol with his confession dated with a back date as a result of torture and threats.

The court session on contesting the fine for the absence of the “foreign agent” label in press releases of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) was postponed until March 29 because of the summoning of additional witnesses, said Andrei Rudomakha, the coordinator of the “EcoWatch”.

The participants of the today's meeting of farmers with Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), have learned that the shareholders from the Caucasian region, who had testified in favour of the activists Nikolai Borodin and Elena Petrova, are being brought en masse to investigators, who force them to refuse from their testimonies.

Houses for participants of the resettlement programme in Derbent should be built by local companies, without the Moscow's LLC “Granit”, said the tenants of the emergency houses. Officials assured them that they trust “Granit”, while subcontractors have warned that until they see specific sum of payment for their work in their contracts, they would not start the construction.

Young people in Chechnya are interested in the ideology of the "Islamic State" (IS) because of their families’ plight, discontent with the authorities’ lawlessness and injection of religious dogmas, experts have stated.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced in the territories of the Nazran and Sunzha Districts of Ingushetia, said the operative headquarters of the region.

The total number of passports, issued for establishing the kinship with the persons, who disappeared during the military campaigns in Chechnya, when the remains are discovered, has exceeded 500. The last batch of passports was issued on March 14.

The settlement of the conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh is impossible without the participation of civil society, the participants of the international conference "Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Origins, Peacemaking and Role of Civil Society", held in Baku on March 14, are sure.