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On March 10, the former investigator Rufat Safarov, who is serving his sentence on the bribe-taking case, told at the meeting with his mother that he had been again placed into the dungeon (punishment cell) on March 6-9.

Prior to considering the lawsuit lodged by the Dagestani lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova with a demand to compensate the harm caused to her by illegal criminal prosecution, the prosecutor's office notified the court that the decision to stop Magomedova's case was cancelled.

The persons killed during the today's special operation in Azerbaijan have been identified as Azer Guseinov and Ali Islamov; weapons and explosives were found on them, the State Security Service (SSS) has announced.

Notifications about the above actions have been submitted to the Department for Interaction with Civil Society Institutes of Kabardino-Balkaria and the Mayoralty of Cherkessk, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the fine of 300,000 roubles imposed on the International Historical-Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society "Memorial" for its refusing to get registered as a "foreign agent".

Rauf Mirkadyrov, who had applied to the government of Switzerland for political asylum, was granted the status of political refugee, the journalist himself has stated.

The leadership of the Investigating Department (ID) for Ingushetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) announced the cancellation of the investigator's decision to suspend the investigation into the attack on the joint group of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture" (CPT) in March 2016, the Presidential Council for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) has reported today.

Azerbaijan has officially announced leaving the global standard "Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative" after the EITI Board pronounced the decision to suspend the membership of Azerbaijan. According to experts, the decision to leave the EITI will negatively affect the investment attractiveness of Azerbaijan.

On March 9, five young children from a family of a resident of the Urus-Martan District, including four brothers and a sister, were returned from Germany to Chechnya. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by an official from the Urus-Martan District administration.

In the Sverdlovsk Region, the court has found a former Dagestani policeman guilty of killing two businessmen and four homeless people and sentenced him to 13 years of imprisonment.

Six staff members of the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE) of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) are arrested in the case on the death of Magomed Daliev during interrogation and on torture of his wife. This was reported by Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

Svetlana Baranova, a former judge of the magistrate precinct No. 120 for the Kizlyar District, accused of an attempted fraud, was sentenced to two years of conditional imprisonment. The magistrate judge pleaded not guilty and announced her intention to appeal against the verdict.

Today, in Moscow, the "Garage" Museum is to open the first triennial exposition of the Russian contemporary art. The exposition will include paintings created by 68 artists from all over Russia, including from North Ossetia, Dagestan, Chechnya, and Krasnodar.

On March 9, the Moscow District Military Court held a session on the case of Khasan Zakaev, accused of helping to commit a terror act at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in 2002.

Nikolai Nesterenko, the Deputy Ataman of Anapa, has warned his advocates that he could be poisoned at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS), where he is held as accused of fraud.

The searches in the house of the well-known Ingush religious figure Isa Tsechoev were held as part of the passport check in the village of Ali-Yurt, Nazran District, as the head of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov explained today at a meeting with activists of public and youth organizations in Magas.

Alexei Mandrigelya, an activist from Krasnodar, accused of publicly demonstrating Nazi symbols by placing in a social network a photo collage depicting Vladimir Putin against the swastika, was sentenced to ten days of arrest.

Today, the initiative group of Eduard Kokoity has appealed to the Supreme Court (SC) with a complaint about the refusal to register Kokoity as a presidential candidate, a source from the Kokoity's electoral office told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In January, the website “Mashable.com” published, in the article "Peoples of the Russian Empire", some photos from the stock of the library of the US Congress, including a portrait of an "Afro-Abkhazian" – a man in a beshmet and a fur hat with a naked dagger, having Negroid facial features. According to the article, these photos are from the collection of the American writer and traveller George Kennan, made in the 1870-1880s.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized transfer of convicts to penal colonies located far away from their home as violation of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Among others, family members of Ali Khadjiev, sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment, who is serving his sentence at the Blagoveschensk penal colony of the Amur Region, have also filed a complaint to the ECtHR.