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Advocate of Gadjimurad Omarov, the head of the Dagestani branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, who was beaten in Makhachkala, has filed a complaint to the Makhachkala District Court about the inaction of law enforcers.

The body of Shamil Magomedov, a resident of Buynaksk, detained on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms, has traces of application of violence, said his advocate Selim Magomedov.

The "Caucasian Knot" has taken the 14th place among Russia’s "Top 30 Most Cited Internet Resources" , which was compiled by the research company "Medialogy" at the end of February, which is two positions higher than in January.

The buildings of the ancient mill and the hotel "Volna" have been unreasonably destroyed in Derbent at the background of preparing the city to celebrate its 2000th anniversary, said Professor Murtazali Gadjiev and journalist Svetlana Anokhina.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) believes that the recent act of clemency has failed to solve the problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan; therefore, the AI urged the country's top authorities to release all "prisoners of conscience".

Today, Lusine Sahakyan, Erem Sarkisyan and Ervand Varosyan, the advocates of the successors of the Avetisyan family, assassinated in Gyumri, have presented the results of the examinations, carried out within the inquiry into the case.

The Georgian authorities and the opposition have agreed in the negative assessment of the treaty signed by Russia and South Ossetia. At the same time, the opposition has once again accused the Georgian authorities of weakness.

Olga Eschenko, a mother of four children and a participant of the rotating hunger strike of parents with many children, is holding her "shift" today, standing on her knees on the steps of the administration of the Volgograd Region.

None of MPs of the Chechen Parliament has published his/her tax declaration for 2013. This was reported by the Centre of Anti-Corruption Research and Initiatives "Transparency International-Russia". In addition to Chechnya, the "Transparency International" (TI) found no declarations of a number of members of regional parliaments of 44 subjects of the Russian Federation.

Experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" were critical of the possible existence of "firing list" of Ramzan Kadyrov's enemies.

In Dagestan, the court has sentenced a 16-year-old resident of the village of Vitsyatli of the Tsuntin District to two years of conditional imprisonment. The teenager was found guilty of posting on the Internet texts of extremist content and arms trafficking.

Azerbaijan starts celebrating the holiday of Novruz Bayram, which symbolizes the coming of spring and the awakening of nature. Nine days, starting from March 20 till March 28, are announced as days off on the occasion of the holiday.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev accused of committing a terror act during the Boston Marathon Race will soon be brought to trial also for the murder of a police officer. According to the jury's decision, there are sufficient reasons for that.

Today, up to 20 Armenian servicemen have been killed and wounded on the Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan has reported.

Today, in the morning, in the settlement of Separatorny in Makhachkala, an armed attack was undertaken on a policeman, who was in a car. He was wounded, but also managed to wound one of the attackers by response fire. Then, the attackers disappeared.

The rally, held in Grozny on March 18 in support of Russia's incorporation of the Crimea, gathered more than 10,000 people, the city administration has reported. In their turn, residents of Grozny complained about their participation in the rally under compulsion.

The Krasnodar activist Sergey Titarenko, accused of extremism, is a political prisoner and should be released from criminal prosecution, says the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Aishat Dalgatova, a resident of Makhachkala, and her one-year-old baby, whose disappearance was reported earlier, have been found; however, their relatives would not disclose the circumstances of their return.

The material by Nikolai Sergeev and Grigory Tumanov, published by the "Kommersant", asserts that operative agents are fulfilling the order of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to find Ruslan Geremeev, a former officer of the battalion "Sever" (North) of the Interior Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), for questioning as a witness in Boris Nemtsov murder case.

A resident of the Chechen capital is suspected of killing his daughter. According to investigators, he strangled the young woman, when he suspected her of immoral behaviour.