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The Donetsk City Court of the Rostov Region has sentenced Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years of imprisonment in a common-security penal colony and a fine of 30,000 roubles.

While reading out the verdict, the judge has pronounced that Nadezhda Savchenko is guilty under all paragraphs of the indictment and is to be isolated from the society.

More than 15 political and public organizations have proposed five amendments to the Electoral Code of Armenia to prevent falsification at the elections and referenda.

Last night, in Dagestan, an explosion occurred in the vicinity of the village of Mutsalaul of the Khasavyurt District. As a result, a man was killed. The police believe that he was a militant, blown up by his own bomb, reports a source from the law enforcement bodies.

According to advocate Mark Feighin, the appeals for help to release Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko have been sent to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders.

Vaan Shirkhanyan, the former Armenian Deputy Minister of Defence, suspected of involvement in an armed criminal grouping, has been transferred from the hospital to the penitentiary institution "Yerevan-Kentron". This was reported by the advocate.

On March 21, Bako Saakyan, President of Nagorno-Karabakh, signed a decree to establish a commission on constitutional reforms. The major political forces of Nagorno-Karabakh have supported the step.

In Sochi, in the course of the trial, the defence of Sergey Fetisov, accused in the case of fraud with land of the Adler Cossack Association, has noted to violations of the terms of the preliminary investigation into the case. The advocate has filed a motion to withdraw the relevant procedural documents from the case materials; however, the court has dismissed the motion.

The court session room and video conference rooms have failed to accommodate all journalists, diplomats, and activists, who came to the Donetsk City Court to listen to the pronouncement of the verdict against Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko.

Nazim Gadjiev, the leader of the Lezgin movement "Sadval", could be murdered for the purpose of a political provocation. This opinion was expressed by Amirkhan Babaev, the deputy chairman of the movement. Shamil Khadulaev, a member of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, who cooperated with Nazim Gadjiev, notes that for the second year in a row, activists of the movement are killed during the celebration of Nowruz holiday.

The Prosecutor's Office has started to check the information about the ill-treatment of inmates of the children's boarding school for mentally retarded children "Zabota" (Care) in Makhachkala.

Family members of the residents of the Volgograd Region killed in the plane crash at the Rostov airport will receive 2 million roubles from the reserve fund of the Volgograd Region. Maria Karpenko, a daughter of the deceased Volgograd residents, reports that the authorities provide the family members with all the necessary assistance.

A report about a bomb has not cancelled the charity concert "Raise a Bus", organized to raise funds for driver Bashir Pliev, who suffered in an attack on a group of human rights defenders and journalists which occurred on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya. The concert was held at another place.

During the week from March 14 to March 20, 2016, no casualties and victims were registered in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The repair works at a former Shiite mosque of Vladikavkaz are being carried out without any sanctioned project, and they violate the architectural appearance of the building, the architects report. According to officials from the authorities, the temporary roof is arranged to prevent the destruction of the building.

Ramzan Kadyrov's offer to pay the fine instead of footballer Tarasov is a link in the chain of attempts to gain political weight by exploiting patriotic feelings, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Alexander Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), has handed over the inquiry into the crash of Boeing 737-800 to the department for investigating particularly important cases; the investigators in charge have confiscated the flight documentation.

Residents of Azerbaijan are celebrating Novruz Bayram, the holiday of spring and awakening of nature, the history of which has more than three thousand years, with traditional feasts and tablefuls.

The information about kidnapping of a young man, committed in early February in the Leninsky District of Grozny, was not confirmed, said the spokesman of the Investigating Department (ID) for Chechnya of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The case of Nina Dubovaya, upon the consideration of which the District Court ruled to return the land plot belonging to her, has been transferred to the Presidium of the Territorial Court. The fact that it has been claimed for the Territorial Court, is no reason for non-issuance of an execution writ within the statutory period of time, believes the advocate Mikhail Okhrimenko.