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The reduction by 50% of the cost of houses built around the Olympic Park will attract buyers to the auction. This was reported by Anatoly Pakhomov, Mayor of Sochi.

Ramzan Kadyrov will be appointed the acting head of the Chechen Republic until the end of the term of office and will receive from Vladimir Putin the permission to take part in the direct election of the Chechen leader, the "RBC" reported on March 2 with reference to at once three sources close to the Kremlin and the Chechen authorities.

The Court of Vienna has released on bail in the amount of 100,000 euros Aslan Gagiev, a native of North Ossetia, suspected in Russia of organizing a series of resonant murders.

During his visit to Azerbaijan, Pedro Agramunt, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has announced the need for execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the cases of sentenced activists Ilgar Mamedov and Tofiq Yagublu.

During the preparation of Volgograd to the FIFA World Cup, the city plans to build a number of key transport routes, including a road through the city along the Volga River, and to repair the road to the airport. Some sections of "guest routes" inside the city have already been repaired. The repair works were completed in the past year; however, according to NGO activists and motorists, new potholes have already appeared on the repaired roads.

According to local residents, arrests in the Azerbaijani village of Nardaran near Baku were undertaken after religious graffiti appeared in the village. In total, 32 persons were detained. The police refute the information about arrests.

The Prosecutor's Office finds the guilt of the Ukrainian pilots Nadezhda Savchenko of involvement in the murder of two VGTRK (All-Russian TV and Radio Company) employees near Lugansk and illegal border crossing proved. The state prosecutor has demanded 23 years of imprisonment for her.

In Makhachkala, nine persons were taken to the police on suspicion of involvement in the "Hizb ut-Tahrir", recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization, law enforcement sources have reported today.

Today, residents of four villages of the Derbent District told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the influence of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime on their everyday life. In three villages, no power agents at all were noticed; and near the village of Aglobi, they are inspecting cars, but do not enter the village.

According to local residents, during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the village of Avadan in Southern Dagestan, an assumed militant and members of some "religious family" were detained. During the operation, gunfire was heard.

A mother of a soldier from Krasnoyarsk has appealed to the Military Prosecutor's Office of the Southern Military District and to a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of her region with a complaint. The woman has stated that her son is subjected to systematic beatings in the Krasnodar military unit. Deputy Yuri Shvytkin has promised to check the fact of humiliation.

Margarita Markelova, who was found guilty of organizing the rally of pensioners in Sochi, filed a complaint against the verdict. Igor Gorbuntsov, a city resident, whose statements became the basis for the evidence against Margarita Markelova in the case materials, stated that he had not told the police anything about the woman.

Truck drivers from the Volgograd Region have left the parking lot in the area of Teply Stan in Moscow, where they took part in the strike against the "Platon" system.

Law enforcers have started a counter-terrorist operation (CTO) in the territory of the Derbent District. This was reported by an official from the operational headquarters for Dagestan.

In the Buynaksk District, an advocate was allowed to visit detained Magomed Akhmeddibirov only three days later. This was reported by the Public Oversight Commission (POC) for Dagestan.

In Rostov-on-Don, the police have detained a man suspected of trying to rob a bank office using a fake improvised explosive device (IED).

On March 1, Yalchin Imanov, an advocate of journalist Khadija Ismayilova, sent an official letter to Aziz Seidov, Prosecutor of Baku, in connection with the fact of the instalment of a hidden surveillance camera in the Khadija Ismayilova's apartment and the use of video records to blackmail the journalist.

Since February 28, three children of a native of Chechnya, deported from Switzerland to Russia, cannot leave the transit area of Domodedovo Airport, rights defenders have stated today.

Today, activists of six Armenian political forces have held a rally in Yerevan in memory of the casualties of riots on March 1-2, 2008. The participants have called on the EU and the European Parliament to apply sanctions against the Armenian authorities to ensure that those responsible for the events of March 1-2, 2008, are duly punished.

Today, a court in Moscow has fined Sergey Mitrokhin, the former leader of the "Yabloko" Party, finding him guilty of violating the rules of holding mass events.