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21 international human rights and journalistic organizations have issued a joint statement, in which they welcomed the act of pardoning in Azerbaijan and release of 15 political prisoners. They called for the release of all political prisoners.

A rally under the motto "Against bad roads, gold-worth gasoline and insurance" was held today in Volgograd. According to motorists, the condition of city roads continues deteriorating, which is why drivers are suffering losses by constantly changing the damaged parts of their vehicles.

The documents on allocation of monetary compensations to the families of those residents of the Rostov Region, who died in the aircraft crash, will be signed today, said the regional governor Vasily Golubev, while visiting the venue of the accident.

Apart from pilots' errors and adverse weather conditions, the crash of the passenger Boeing 737-800 NG of the "FlyDubai" airline, which made a flight from Dubai to Rostov-on-Don, could be a technical failure, believes the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

For a week already, the Adler-based boarding house "Neptune", inhabited by forced migrants, has no electricity supply, because the Sochi Mayoralty has failed to pay its debts to resource organizations. Residents reported about their situation to the prosecutor's office; and the Mayor promised to restore the electricity supply next week.

At the Rostov-on-Don airport, "black boxes" are found at the place of the crash of a passenger Boeing. After their decryption, it will be possible to reveal the causes of the accident. This was reported by an official from the Ministry of Transport.

South Ossetia held memorial ceremonies in memory of 12 Ossetians killed in the village of Eredvi in March 1991.

In Volgograd, after the protests of city residents, whose cottages in the Dzerzhinsk District of Volgograd are to be demolished by the court's decision, the city authorities have agreed to sign an amicable agreement with the tenants of the cottages.

Last night, a Boeing-737 of the "FlyDubai" airlines on route from Dubai to Rostov-on-Don, has crashed down while landing at the destination airport. After the fall, an explosion and fire occurred aboard. The fire was extinguished.

On March 17, participants of the meeting of the Circassian organizations of Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria voiced a proposal to create a unified interregional organization to be engaged in the protection and development of culture of the Circassian people.

A fire was the cause of the explosion at the filling station (known as AZS), located in Tumanyan Street, near the railway station in Kizlyar.

Today, at the first sermon pronounced by Imam Khamzat Chumakov at the Nasyr-Kort mosque there were much more believers than usual, Musa Barkinkhoev, the chairman of the Union of Young Writers of Ingushetia, who visited the sermon, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to his assessment, there were about seven thousand people at the mosque at the usual attendance of five thousand.

An action in Grozny, dated to the anniversary of annexation of the Crimea by Russia, was held today under reinforced security measures and, according to the Mayoralty, brought together ten thousand people. The interviewed participants said that they had been obliged to be present at this action.

Today, the Nalchik City Court has issued a conditional sentence to Elvira Khakhundokova, accused of aiding the militant leader Yuri Bitsuev. She was released in the courtroom, said Zaur Shomakhov, her advocate.

The extraordinary congress of Muslims of Ingushetia, which is scheduled for March 29, will consider the resignation of Mufti Isa Khamkhoev, said Ulan Evloev, Chairman of the Board of Clans under the republic's administration, adding that the congress of Muslim is convened by the Council of Alims of the Muftiate.

Representatives of the USA, the European Union (EU) and international organizations have positively treated the decree of President of Azerbaijan to pardon and release a group of political prisoners. At the same time, they deem it necessary to release all the remaining activists.

Ivan Shmalyuk, who stood against the demolition of cottages in the Dzerzhinsk District of Volgograd, complained to the police about his detention near the building of the regional administration and his beating.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found a violation of the rights of Azerbaijani rights defender Rasul Jafarov. On March 17, the ECtHR pronounced the decision to recognize the arrest of the rights defender as illegal and obliged the government of Azerbaijan to pay him compensation in the amount exceeding 32,000 euros.

The Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) has demanded to carry out a thorough investigation into the attack in Grozny on Igor Kalyapin, a member of the HRC, and to punish the guilty persons. The actions of the persons who attacked Igor Kalyapin contradict the mentality and customs of the Chechen people, locals claim.

The decree on pardoning issued by the President of Azerbaijan has not solved the problem of political prisoners in the country. Despite the release of a number of activists and journalists, 90 percent of political prisoners stay in prisons, rights defenders report.