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Today, the oppositional politician Boris Nemtsov was buried in Moscow. The participants in the funeral service, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, criticized the investigators' version about involvement in his murder of Chechen militants or supporters of radical Islam.

The Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has rejected the appeal of the Armenian MP Zarui Postanjyan to extradite the Russian regular soldier Valery Permyakov, accused of massacring the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, to the Armenian party.

In Makhachkala, on March 2, unidentified kidnappers pushed Artyom Alkhasov, a son of Gadjikurban Alkhasov, an editor of the State TV and Radio Company (STRC) "Dagestan", into a car and took away to some unknown place. According to the father, Artyom's whereabouts is still unknown.

The court in Krasnodar has replaced the conditional imprisonment imposed on Professor Mikhail Savva, who is now on the federal wanted list, by three years in a colony-settlement for violating the regime of serving his conditional punishment.

There are mass detentions in the settlement of Semender, in the Kirov District of Makhachkala, said an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), citing local residents.

Four out of seven casualties of the counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, have been pre-identified. Among them, there are the persons wanted for the murder of Colonel Salimgereev. Four other suspected militants managed to escape.

The father of Ibragim Todashev, a native of Chechnya, who was killed by an FBI agent during his questioning about the terror act during the Boston Marathon, said that he was preparing a lawsuit against the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the amount of 30 million US dollars in connection with his son's murder.

The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has instructed the republic's Security Council to check the complaints of female-students of the medical college in Nazran, who complained that some teachers forbid them to wear hijabs.

The mother of Anatoly Boltykhov, the organizer of the failed "Vesna" (Spring) March in Volgograd, was threatened by law enforcers, said Anatoly, adding that he was also afraid of possible provocations.

Artyom Alkhasov, a resident of Makhachkala, was kidnapped in the evening on March 2 in the centre of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, his relatives report. The police have confirmed that they received an application about the kidnapping.

Two residents of the village of Elin-Yurt (Gvardeiskoe) were detained in Chechnya after the explosion at the dam of the Chernorechensk Reservoir. The whereabouts of the detainees is unknown, said a local resident.

On March 1, four parents of many children went in Volgograd on the so-called rotating hunger strike, demanding solution of their housing problems.

The investigator, who earlier was in charge of the inquiry into the 2009 murder of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, has been appointed to head the group of investigators to run the inquiry into the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov.

Digging a pit for new apartment blocks has begun today near No. 59 inGamidov Avenue in Makhachkala. Local residents tried to block the process, but they were hustled off by policemen.

This morning, an armed attack on policemen has been committed in the Babayurt District of Dagestan. The attacker was killed by return fire.

At the conference of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), which was held on March 1 inKrasnodar, the members of the organization declared the campaign against the development of the SochiNational Park and the Caucasian Reserve, which had been awarded a special status, to be their priority for the next six months.

Participants of a picket held in Astrakhan as a part of the all-Russian campaign "Vesna" (Spring), have paid tribute to Boris Nemtsov. They have also expressed their hope that his death will cause the oppositionists to stick together, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

During the week from February 23 to March 1, 2015, at least 23 people fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 17 people were killed and six others wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Relatives of Djabu Magomedov, a resident of the Kizilyurt District, cannot get official information about his whereabouts since February 26. According to a source in the Kizilyurt GOVD (City Interior Department), Djabu Magomedov is suspected of aiding and abetting members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), and he is in Makhachkala.

Today, in Moscow, the mourning procession in memory of murdered politician Boris Nemtsov has gathered 50,000-70,000 people, organizers of the action report. One of the key attributes in the hands of participants of the action was represented by the Russian flag. In this particular case, it symbolized the people of Russia and not the President, said Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the Committee "Civil Assistance".