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Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has partially satisfied the complaint of the defence, which asked to release the oppositional leader Asif Yusifli, and reduced his prison term from six to five years.

Nafigulla Ashirov, Co-Chair of the Council of Muftis of Russia and Supreme Mufti of the Asian part of Russia, is sceptical about the idea of “educating Muslims in the way shown in the ‘Stop Haram’ programme."

Today, the Moscow Sakharov Centre has started a press conference entitled "White Spots" and dedicated to the Dubrovka terror act. At the opening of the event, the lawyer Karinna Moskalenko said that the press conference would discuss primarily the fates of those who suffered from actions of power agents, who assaulted the theatrical centre.

The Prime Minister of Dagestan has ordered to allocate funds to tenants of the apartments, destroyed in May 2016 during a counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in Derbent.

In Derbent, law enforcers evacuated to a safety place the car, in which they found explosives and a Kalashnikov submachine gun. This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture", has also appealed to the chief of the Department for Grozny of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) with a request to start disciplinary proceedings against the policemen who refused to initiate a criminal case on the fact of an attack on him in the Chechen capital.

When commenting on the results of the trip to Dagestan, Ella Pamfilova, the chair of the Central Election Commission (CEC), has placed full responsibility for the elections in the regions on the leaders of the subjects of the Russian Federation.

Igor Stenin, the leader of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", has arrived to a common-security penal colony in the Astrakhan Region. The complaint against the verdict has been filed to the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation, reported advocate Tatiana Ivanushkina.

In Krasnodar, the court has sentenced human rights defender Vladislav Nikitenko to six years of imprisonment and to a heavy fine. Vladislav Nikitenko was found guilty of defamation of a prosecutor, contempt of court, obstruction of justice, and assaulting a policeman.

On March 1, a kennel for stray dogs organized by the Mayor's Office was opened in the village of Semender of the Kirov District of Makhachkala, and the opening ceremony was attended by members of animal rights organizations of Makhachkala. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent who came to the opening ceremony.

The pilot release of the programme "Stop Haram" (Haram means banned Islam behaviour), posted today on the "Alif-TV" Channel on the YouTube, criticizes drinking alcohol and smoking in public places. The description of the video entitled "Stop Haram! I’m ready to die for Islam!" states that Islam Ismailov, the author of the project, "tries to convey to townspeople that drinking alcohol and smoking in public places is not just illegal, but also immoral."

Nver Babadjanyan, a soldier of the Defence Army, has died as a result of the gunfire delivered from the Azerbaijani side, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

A commemoration march of those killed during street riots on March 1-2, 2008, in Yerevan, was held today in Yerevan by supporters of the "Elk" electoral bloc.

The Kremlin is getting ready for 2018 presidential election; therefore, they have taken the course of pseudo-liberalization and stopped prosecuting some activists, experts said in their comments on the liberation from house arrest of Makhmud Velitov, the Imam of the Moscow "Yardyam" Mosque.

On February 28, the city of Cherkessk, the capital of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) hosted a picket with a demand to release Kemal Atnasirov, a resident of Novaya Djeguta. According to the organizers, the picket was over 60 strong

With the support of Russia, Azerbaijan hampers the negotiation process. This opinion was voiced by political analyst Ruben Megrabyan, an expert of the Centre for Political and International Studies, in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Without any explanations, a court marshal did not execute the court's decision to evict the Dyakov family with many children from an apartment, earlier provided to them from the manoeuvrable fund. In their turn, members of public organizations and residents of Sochi demanded from the Prosecutor's Office to protect the right of the Dyakov family members to housing.

Dagestani leader Ramazan Abdulatipov has addressed residents of the republic with a request to "stop killing defenceless animals" and "stop escalating the situation." Meanwhile, during three days, the petition for resignation of the Mayor of Makhachkala and the leader of Dagestan, who, according to the petition's initiators, support the shooting of dogs in Dagestan, collected more than 3500 signatures.

Since the start of hostilities in Syria, 99 criminal cases were instituted against residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). This was reported by Igor Romashkin, the head of the KBR’s Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The mass arrests of government critics, civil and religious activists, taking place after the appointment of Mekhriban Alieva as Vice-President, "are intended to intimidate the society and prevent protests against the above decision." This opinion was voiced by Oktai Gyulalyev, the head of the Public Alliance "Azerbaijan without political prisoners".