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On March 31, Azerbaijan marked the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis. The country paid tribute to the victims of the events occurred in the spring of 1918. According to the Baku authorities, in 1918, the armed forces of the "Dashnaktsutyun" Nationalist Party, supported by leaders of the Baku Soviet, committed mass killings and pogroms of civilians. The total number of victims was more than 30,000 people. On March 26, 1998, Geidar Aliev, the then Azerbaijani President, issued a decree to declare March 31 the Day of Azerbaijanis' Genocide.

The Moscow Regional Court has scheduled for April 8 the consideration of the verdict announced by the jury in the case against the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN). Advocates of the defendants have said that they were generally satisfied with the verdict.

Shakhban Gasanov, who has been killed in Khasavyurt, was wounded during a shootout with policemen that occurred on March 25. This was reported by a source from the Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Division).

Sochi residents complain about the poor condition and misuse of the cottage settlement built in 2011 for Olympic resettlers. The Sochi lawyer Rafael Khachaturov believes that the situation in Sochi should be examined by a public commission.

Shakhban Gasanov, who had sworn to the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization, was killed during the storming of a house in Khasavyurt, said the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The number of Russia's residents, who express trust in the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, has increased by 22% as compared with 2006, said the "Levada-Centre".

An activist Darya Polyudova, accused of inciting extremism, has applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against her illegal prosecution, in her opinion, and long detention in custody in Krasnodar.

The natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia, who are exposed to acts of violence in Russian prisons, often fall victim to aggression of participants of Chechen Wars. This was announced today in Moscow by the Committee "Civil Assistance" during presentation of its report on the outcomes of the project.

As stated by the "Committee against Torture", the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has done nothing in effect to check the complaints of the figurants in the Nemtsov's murder case about law enforcers' unlawful physical assault on them.

Today, the Kirsanov District Court of the Tambov Region has started the consideration of the motion on conditional early relief (CER) of Evgeny Vitishko, a Krasnodar ecologist. According to an official from the penal colony, the ecologist committed eight violations, seven disciplinary sanctions were imposed against him, and thus, the penal colony stands against his earlier release.

All the children of Boris Nemtsov officially asked investigators to recognize them victims in the case of the murder of the politician. In this regard, the investigators questioned Ekaterina Odintsova, a former common-law wife of Boris Nemtsov, and his son Anton.

The defence of the persons sentenced in the case of the murder of journalist Abdulmalik Akhmedilov has announced the intention to challenge the verdict in the nearest future.

The population of Russia expresses a surge of optimism in relation to the situation in Northern Caucasus and a reduction of negative expectations. This was proved by the data of the recent survey led by the Levada Centre. The sociologists believe that the Russians' attitude is affected by the absence of lack of critical articles about the situation in the region, and, besides, the Russian residents treat the incoming information less important than the information about the events in Ukraine.

On March 30, at the court hearing held in Boston, the US Attorney's office completed the presentation of evidence in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of organizing a terror act during the marathon in Boston in 2013. From the prosecution party, the court questioned the persons affected by the terror act, relatives of victims, law enforcers, physicians, and other experts.

Activists Timur Kuashev and Ruslan Magomeragimov died under mysterious circumstances; and their relatives stated marks from injection needle on their bodies, note Albert Esedov, the leader of the movement "Sadval", and Orhan Jemal, a journalist of the Forbes magazine.

The investigating authorities of Dagestan have detained a woman from Izberbash, suspected of trying to sell his 5-year-old daughter.

The convoy service of the Lenin District Court of Makhachkala would not let reporters to the open session, where sentences to the figurants of the murder case of journalist Abdulmalik Akhmedilov were announced, said a representative of the victims.

During the week of March 23-29, 2015, at least 2 persons fell victim to 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.

Contrary to the earlier disseminated information, Zaur Dadaev, the main person, accused of killing Boris Nemtsov, looks like the gunman, described by the witness Evgeny, the RBC reported on March 27 with reference to the protocol of questioning the eyewitness of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, who was previously treated by media as "a new witness"

The Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova has been put on the list of nine arrested media professionals, whose names will be engraved on bracelets within the campaign "Press without Handcuffs", organized by the journalist Dana Priest and American students.