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Upon a decision of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, every young person aged from 14 to 35 years shall pass the "spiritual-moral certification", having reported on his/her religion and tribal (clannish) belonging, said the Chechen Parliament.

The "Caucasian Knot" continues filming various realities of the Caucasus in the "slow-action" mode and invites readers to share their ideas.

A soldier David Terteryan was killed in the conflict zone "in unclear circumstances", said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

A preliminary session of the court in Baku, which is considering the appeal complaint lodged by journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov against his verdict, was held today behind closed doors. The court has rejected all the petitions, including the one demanding to release the journalist from custody.

In the village of Nyutyug, Suleiman-Stalsky District of Dagestan, near which an armed clash occurred on February 17, explosions were heard, said a local resident. According to his story, on the same day power agents conducted passport checks. Today, the village lives its normal life.

Inna Blenaova, a resident of Nalchik, who is accused of helping a militant, has lodged its application to the Commission for Adaptation of Former Militants. The members of the Commission have considered the application, and decided to ask the court to appoint a punishment, not related to deprivation of her liberty.

Suppression of the Salafi communities in the northern and central regions of Dagestan has contributed to concentration of radical Salafis in the southern part of Dagestan, and the recent armed incidents in the region are explained by the above fact. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, the Moscow District Military Court has sentenced Abdula Magomedaliev and Rizvan Agashirinov to 20 and 16 years of imprisonment, respectively. The defendants were found guilty of plotting a terror act in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, purchasing weapons in Dagestan, and a number of other crimes.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has visited the Republic's Bureau of Forensic-Medical Examination after receiving a message that there were retentions from employees' salaries there, but the staff and bosses of the bureau refuted this information. Employees have condemned their colleague for complaining to Kadyrov, the Chechen television reports.

Yesterday, the Azerbaijani armed forces shelled the Karabakh positions more than 700 times from small-arms weapon, as well as five times from 82-millimetre mortar launchers. This has been reported today by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The documentary film "Ceasefire", created by Hungarian filmmaker Erik Bognar, which is devoted to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, has been first shown in the Azerbaijani language.

Defenders of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, sentenced to death sentence for organizing the terror act during the marathon in Boston, have filed papers to withdraw from the trial. New advocates are offered to defend the convict.

Sharon Tennyson, Director General of the Civil Initiatives Centre, and her interpreter Theodore McIntyre were fined for breaking the entry rules to Russia. In the local Rotary Club they conducted a conference on resumption of the programme of the Civil Initiatives Centre in Russia, having specified a tourist trip as the aim of their visit, said the spokesperson of the Tsentralny District Court of Volgograd.

In Suleiman-Stalsky District, an armed clash broke out between power agents and two militants, who were shot dead in the shootout, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

Human rights activists have demanded to free citizens of Ukraine Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh. Investigators have no proofs that during the first Chechen war Karpyuk and Klyh were in Chechnya, rights defenders assert.

Residents of the three districts of Dagestan, which are under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, say that they have no problems related thereto. According to their stories, schools and kindergartens in the villages of the Tabasaran, Suleiman-Stalsky and Khiv Districts work as usual.

The condition of the woman, who suffered from the explosion at the GIBDD (traffic police) checkpoint in the Derbent District of Dagestan, is stably grave, said Rumina Demirova, Chief Physician of the Central City Hospital (CCH) of Derbent. According to her story, the patient is in coma and connected to an artificial respiration unit.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced in three districts of Dagestan, where power agents are searching for members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), said the spokesman of the republic's operative headquarters.

The exercises of the Southern Military District (SMD) have political context and are intended to master various scenarios of the air warfare and defence for the Black Sea Fleet, said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The families of casualties and victims of the explosion at the Djemikent traffic police checkpoint in the Derbent District of Dagestan will receive financial aid from the government, depending on the gravity of injuries, the press service of the republic's government has reported.