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According to members of the Sochi Ecological Council, the sitting on the status of the ecology in the post-Olympic Sochi was fruitless – the officials who spoke at the sitting gave not a single substantive answer. Ecologists intend to voice the issue out again to the authorities at the next meeting scheduled for March 28, hoping to receive more specific answers.

The Moscow City Court has continued to consider the evidence presented by the defence of the defendants accused of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". The advocates have questioned two witnesses, the first of whom was Ilman Khasmagomadov transferred to the court.

The consideration of the case for the lawsuit filed by the Karabulak administration to evict families of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) "Promzhilbaza", has been postponed for indefinite period.

The women, who died under an avalanche at the ski resort "Roza Khutor" in Sochi, were skiing along the avalanche-prone route section, said Igor Oder, the head of the Southern Regional Centre of the Russia's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

Abdurashid Magomedov, the Interior Minister, has stated the son of the former head of the Tabasaran District of Dagestan was involved, according to investigators, in the terror act committed near the building of the ROVD (District Interior Division) in the village of Khuchni on September 23, 2013.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Ukraine has extradited to Russia Mukhammed Migaev, accused in attacking in 2005 villagers of Roshni-Chu of the Urus-Martan District of the Chechen Republic.

The Chechnya's Prosecutor's Office has cancelled the investigators' decision to suspend the criminal case about the kidnapping in February 2003 of two locals – brothers Aslan and Valid Djabrailov. Four years ago, the ECtHR fined Russia in response to the complaint lodged by Valid Djabrailov's relatives.

Officials from the Astrakhan administration continue accepting appeals from victims affected by the fire that occurred on March 25. At present, it is known that 14 families consisting of 43 persons lost their housing.

The 27th round of Geneva talks, which ended on March 26, resulted in agreement on humanitarian issues. This was reported by Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, Georgian Deputy Minister for Reintegration.

Law enforcers have detained Taisia Baskaeva, a lawyer of the Moscow Regional Bar, accused of 42 fraud episodes, said the press service of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). However, Dmitry Efremov, a lawyer, who is representing Baskaeva's interests, believes that the investigators' claims are groundless.

Andzor Akhokhov, who organized, in the KBR (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic), an action against Sochi Olympics, complains that his business is frequently inspected by employees of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). He believes that it has to do with his allegations about torture applied to him by policemen.

On investigator's decision, Gadji Djamaludinov, one of the figurants in the case of Said Amirov, who had been temporarily removed from his post of Makhachkala Mayor, has been released under recognizance not to leave, said one of the advocates in the case.

On March 25, the community of Ishkhanadzor, Kashatag District of Nagorno-Karabakh, awarded two Armenian families from Syria with the keys to their apartments.

On March 26, the administration of Grozny, the Chechen capital, began checking for the presence of residents in Grozny on their house and land ownership. Locals complain about extortion of money for making the necessary permits to own their real estate; however, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has treated this information as "rumours."

Suleiman Edigov, a resident of Chechnya, is on hunger at SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 of Grozny since March 14, the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" reports.

Georgia's law enforcement bodies will establish the reasons of death Shalva Tatukhashvili, a witness in the case of Data Akhalaya, the former head of a department of the MIA, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia has reported. Giorgi Tatukhashvili, the casualty's father and the former commander of the country's Internal Troops, suspects that his son was killed.

The press service of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), on March 25, in the course of a search within a criminal case, policemen found five firearms and ammunition in the house of a 50-year-old resident of the village of Serafimovskoe of the Arzgir District in the Stavropol Territory.

According to power agents, two of the four persons killed in Khasavyurt on March 24 were not direct participants of the "Babayurt" militant grouping, but actively helped its members.

The decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (RCtHR), which recognized Russian power agents responsible for kidnappings and probable deaths of eight residents of Chechnya, entered into force on March 25.

Residents of the Gumbet District, who reported about the forest fire, say that the power agents, who carried out a special operation against militants there, did not allow them to extinguish the fire. If it is not suppressed shortly, there is a danger that the wood can be burned down completely.