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Power agents have begun searching for members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) and their helpers in the Botlikh and Khunzakh Districts of Dagestan, said the spokesman of the republic's operative headquarters.

The journalists, who suffered in the attack on the minivan of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG), were on their way to Grozny to collect facts about kidnappings and torture in the republic. In particular, they were interested in the circumstances of the deaths of the two natives of Chechnya, deported from Norway, said the sources of the "Caucasian Knot".

The minivan of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Ingushetia was followed from Karabulak, in the outskirt of which the JMG office is located, said the driver of the minivan. According to his story, after the forced stop, he was the first to take the attackers' blow, when he refused to open the door of his minivan.

Abu Umar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili), a native of Georgia and one of the leaders of the terrorist grouping "Islamic State" (IS), was placed in hospital with serious wounds after US airstrikes, said the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.

On March 10, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), held a preliminary session on the lawsuit of the Department for the KChR of Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on liquidation of the republic's movement "Adyge-Khase – Circassian Parliament".

Despite the fact that the attack on journalists and members of the "Committee against Torture" (CAT) was committed in Ingushetia, it should be associated with the authorities of the neighbouring Chechnya, said the rights defenders, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala has dismissed the complaint of the advocate Tumas Misakyan, who asked to recognize as illegal the suspension of the investigation into the murder of the journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev and recognize illegal the investigator's inaction.

Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), has treated the attacks on journalists and rights defenders in Ingushetia as a demonstration of permissiveness and action of intimidation.

The actions of the attackers on a minivan with journalists on the Ingush-Chechen border should be qualified as an attempt to interfere with their activities, said the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They expressed their confidence that in the process of the inquiry the initial articles will be re-qualified to graver ones.

Russian law enforcement bodies have reacted to the news of Turkish media that Kristina Tikhonova, a native of Dagestan, allegedly involved in the organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia, intended to commit a terror act in Istanbul.

The Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko has announced, after meeting her advocate in the SIZO (pre-trial prison), that she would start drinking water, but she would continue her hunger strike. Earlier, conflicting information was received on Savchenko's dry hunger strike.

Two Dagestani freelance journalists, a young woman being one of them, told the "Caucasian Knot" that they were beaten up today at the opening ceremony of a sports ground in Makhachkala by a senior republic's official.

The Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) has addressed Yuri Chaika and Alexander Bastrykin, the heads of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), accordingly, with a request to personally control the inquiry into the attacks on rights defenders and journalists in Ingushetia.

The Russian authorities must ensure the attraction to liability of those involved in the pogrom of the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) and the attack on journalists and rights defenders in Ingushetia, said Johann Beer, the head of the "Reporters without Borders" (RWB). The past similar incidents are still unpunished, he said.

They plan to build a monument, in the village of Uchkeken of the Malokarachay District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), to the Karachay hundred, which made a part of the Caucasian Cavalry Division during the First World War. The monument is expected to be opened before the end of the year.

The statements of Yusup Djaparov that he does not understand the case files, translated into the Tsudakh dialect, cannot be considered reasonable, linguists said. Experts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have stated that Djaparov should not have difficulties in understanding the texts, since the differences of the above two dialects of the Dargin language are minimal.

On the eve of the Novruz Bayram holiday, the Azerbaijani Pardons Commission under the President of the country has reviewed about 400 applications. Positive decisions have been made in over 300 of them, and will be submitted to the President.

The attacks on the members of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) and its office in Ingushetia were preceded by the pogrom of the JMG office in Grozny on June 3, 2015, and a fire therein on December 13, 2014. Nils Mujzhnieks, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe, has condemned the attack on rights defenders and journalists.

Members of the Kurdish community in Armenia have called on the international community to stop contacts with Turkey. According to their story, the Turkish government is supplying the militants of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), which is banned in Russia, with weapons, and also uses the army to intimidate Kurds.

Members of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under Ramzan Kadyrov could not meet the journalists and rights defenders, who suffered in the attack near the Chechen-Ingush border. At the hospital, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) were talking to the victims at that moment, said Kheda Saratova, a Chechen rights defender.