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Tenants of the residential building have claimed that because of the court's decision on the demolition of the building in No. 70 in Izmailskaya Street, they will be deprived of their only housing and will be left in the street. Meanwhile, all the tenants have the documents on registration of their property rights.

A resident of North Ossetia has filed a complaint to the police of Kabardino-Balkaria. The man has claimed that his son was kidnapped by unidentified persons, who demanded a ransom. However, the message appeared to by false, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

During the week of February 22-28, 2016, one person was killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Today, in Stepanakert, officials from the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh, soldiers and local residents have laid flowers at the monument to victims of the Sumgait pogroms in memory of the events of 1988.

The Russian Congress of Peoples of the Caucasus (known as RKNK) has proposed to bring to criminal and administrative liability those persons who justify acts of repression against the peoples of Russia and hinders their rehabilitation.

Members of the movement "People's Control of Sochi" have inspected a number of objects, concerning which they received complaints from local residents. The materials of the recorded violations will be brought to the Prosecutor's Office, the activists report.

On February 27, the "Civil Society Platform" addressed Azerbaijani people and the authorities of the country with the appeal. It is dated to the 20th anniversary of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan and the forthcoming visit to Baku of top-ranking members of the European Commission.

On February 27, in Moscow, according to the organization "White Counter", more than 24,000 people came to a rally-march in memory of Boris Nemtsov. The police have reported that the rally was attended by 7500 people.

43 persons – members of the "RPR-PARNAS" and "Yabloko" Parties, and civil activists – have gathered today in Lenin Square in Volgograd to hold a picket "Year after murder of Boris Nemtsov". They demanded a fair inquiry into his assassination.

The commemoration action of Boris Nemtsov, held in his hometown, was supervised by law enforcers and officials from the Mayoralty. The action ended without incident.

The rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov gathered three thousand people in Saint Petersburg, said the organizers. At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported two thousand participants.

Members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) have filed a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office that they were not allowed twice into the SIZO (pre-trial prison) to visit Mukhammad Magomedov, an activist of the public organization "Union of the Just".

Today, a rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Rostov-on-Don gathered about a hundred participants. The action sparked interest in townspeople, who photographed the demonstrators and stopped to listen to their speeches.

The slogan "Kadyrov is Russia's disgrace" was announced at the Moscow commemoration rally of Boris Nemtsov. The participants expressed their dissatisfaction with investigators' failure to question the head of Chechnya in the case of Nemtsov's murder.

The Chechen officer Ruslan Mukhudinov, accused of organizing the murder of Boris Nemtsov, has been declared wanted by the Interpol, said an advocate of the family of Boris Nemtsov. The defender of Mukhudinov has not confirmed this information, saying he did not know about the request sent to the Interpol.

Problems of the Krasnodar-based "Sedin" Factory can be solved only through nationalization, said Alexei Kuznetsov, Deputy Chief Designer of the enterprise. Workers intend to put forward this demand to the Russian President's plenipotentiary office for the Southern Federal District (SFD).

The political pressure on judges and selectivity of justice have particularly manifested themselves in Georgia at the trial of Gigi Ugulava, while the issue of the freedom of expression was raised in the course of legal battles around the "Rustavi 2" TV Channel, says the report of the Amnesty International (AI).

In 2015, Armenian authorities repeatedly resorted to violent dispersal of peaceful rallies; and organizers of such actions were detained and criminally prosecuted on dubious charges. This is stated in the annual report of the Amnesty International (AI).

During 2015, in Northern Caucasus, serious violations of human rights still occurred, and human rights defenders, who reported on events in the region, faced harassment. This was reported by the international organization "Amnesty International" (AI) in its report released on February 24.

Policemen detained a resident of Makhachkala, on whose land plot they discovered a hiding with ammunition and items for detonation.