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During the week of March 7-13, 2016, six persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, two persons were killed, and four others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that Abu Umar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili), a native of Georgia, one of the leaders of the terrorist grouping "Islamic State" (IS), has been in a state of clinical death for several days already.

Mikhail Kasyanov, Chairman of the "PARNAS" Party, has received from the FSB a response to his request to launch an investigation concerning the post on Ramzan Kadyrov's page on Instagram. The opposition politician treated the above post as a death threat. According to the response received from the FSB, the post does not contain evidence of any illegal actions.

Ukrainian physicians were not able to visit Nadezhda Savchenko, accused of involvement in the murder of two journalists not far from Lugansk, and they returned to Ukraine. This was reported by advocate Nikolai Polozov.

The men, killed on March 11 in a shootout with law enforcers during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) near the Dagestani village of Orota, have been preliminary identified as Magomed Gadjimagomedov and Sabir Rashidov. This was reported by the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

When journalists and rights defenders were attacked in Ingushetia, the criminals robbed them and seized from them 1000 euros and 250 US dollars. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

The Chechen authorities try to establish feudal control over the society by adopting a principle of collective responsibility under the guise of "spiritual and moral certification". This opinion was expressed by rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The legal regime of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Khunzakh District was cancelled today at 8:30 p.m. Moscow time.

The two persons, killed in a special operation in the Khunzakh District of Dagestan, had been involved in attacks on law enforcers and in murders in 2014 of civilians and the Imam of the mosque of the village of Gotsatl, said the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Investigators in Ingushetia have added to the case of beating up journalists and rights defenders in the Sunzha District the article about a group armed attack in order to steal property.

The car blown up near the mosque in Nasyr-Kort belonged to a native of Dagestan, but in recent time it was used by proxy by another person, said a law enforcement source from Ingushetia.

Vitaly Zubenko, an advocate of Elizaveta Alieva, has filed a complaint against the investigators' refusal to inform about the progress of the inquiry into the case initiated after the disappearance of her sister Marem in Ingushetia.

Election of the Mufti of North Ossetia is scheduled for March 16. During the 6 years that the republic's Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) is headed Khadjimurat Gatsalov, the Muftiate failed to establish due relationships with power agents, said the Mufti.

Residents of the neighbourhood Maly Akhun have complained to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about the construction within specially protected area of recreational purpose.

At the court session on the case of Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh in Chechnya, which the journalists attacked in Ingushetia were going to cover, Alexander Cherkasov, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", was questioned.

Prior to attempt on Imam Khamzat Chumakov, some stranger, unknown to his supporters, twice tried to provoke him. On the day of the attempt, he called Chumakov and mosque-goers to go to the place where later a car was exploded.

An attack on journalists and human rights defenders on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya has hurt the reputations of the leaders of both republics and the Russian special services, involved in the region. This opinion was expressed by political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Two members of the armed underground have been killed during the special operation carried out in the Khunzakh District, and law enforcers are searching for their accomplices. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

According to human rights defenders and public figures, an attempt on Khamzat Chumakov has been committed amid the statements of criticism voiced against him by Ramzan Kadyrov; the attempt was prepared in advance and was not connected with his condemnation of attacks on journalists in Ingushetia.

Today, journalists from Sweden and Norway, hospitalized after the attack in Ingushetia, have been discharged from the hospital for outpatient treatment.