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Vardan Sedrakyan, ex-candidate for presidency of Armenia arrested for suspicion of organizing an attempt at candidate for presidency Paruir Airikyan during the election, refuses to evidence and is going to appeal against the charge brought against him in court, his attorney Alexander Sirunyan declared.

According to the report of the Russia's Audit Chamber, presented today by its head Sergey Stepashin to the Council of Federation, the estimated cost of the objects for the Winter Olympiad in Sochi was unreasonably exceeded by 15.5 billion roubles.

Today, Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, hosted the third within last 20 days action in defence of Hilal Mamedov, the arrested editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado". The action was dated to the court session on Mamedov's case at the Baku Court for Grave Crimes.

Absalitdin Murzaev, the head of the Board of Elders of the Kumyk People and a member of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, who was beaten by unidentified persons in Dagestan and now is taking his treatment at the neurosurgical ward of the Republic's Clinical Hospital, had not given his consent to any protest action – this was his comment on the action held near the hospital on March 4.

Residents of the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, have held a non-sanctioned action with a demand to hurry with solving the murder of the medrese director Magomed Biyarslanov, who was shot dead in his own house.

Today, dozens of heavy-duty trucks with foodstuffs have been let from Russia to South Ossetia; they started accumulating from the day before at the Russian border. According to Murat Tskhovrebov, Chairman of the Customs Committee of South Ossetia, entrepreneurs face problems at the customs because of the absence of a duty-free trade agreement with Russia.

In total, 37 producers of alcoholic beverages from Georgia and four mineral water bottlers were allowed to submit documents for registration in Russia, the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russia's Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has reported today about the outcomes of the voyage of Russian specialists to Georgia.

The new version of the CD “Stalin’s execution lists” prepared by “Memorial International” includes the names of 43500 convicts, 33 thousand out of them have biography resumes. The CD was presented at a press conference held in Moscow on March, 5.

Fatima Tekaeva, mother of Rasul Kudaev accused of assault at Nalchik in October of 2005, witnessed for the defense in Prigorodny court of North Ossetia on the case of two women residents of Dagestan, Zalina Gabibulaeva and Zaira Akaeva, in whose car a home-made explosive device was found.

Today, a general jurisdiction court has ruled to arrest Vardan Sedrakyan, a former candidate for presidency, to two months of preliminary detention. He is suspected of organizing an attempt on another presidential candidate Paruir Airikyan.

The Azerbaijani lawyer and the head of the "Legal Enlightenment Society" Intigam Aliev has received the Homo Homini Premium for the year 2012, awarded by the Czech human rights organization "People in Need" for his special achievements in human rights activities.

Irada Djarullaeva has stated disappearance of her husband Bakhtavar Djarullaev, 27, a resident of Makhachkala. She cannot define her husband's whereabouts since March 4 and does not rule out that her husband could have been kidnapped.

Mohamed Khabilov, a resident of the city of Terek, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), jumped out of the window of the third level of the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) after receiving threats from law enforcers. He has told about it in his address to rights defenders. The local MIA denies his claims about threats.

On March 4, Magomed Biyarslanov, a medrese teacher, who was shot dead by unidentified persons on March 3 at his home, was buried in the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan.

The Constitutional Court (CC) has accepted the claim lodged by Andreas Gukasyan, a former presidential candidate in Armenia to nullify the presidential election. It will be considered on March 11 together with a similar suit lodged by Raffi Ovannisyan, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Oganes Papikyan, the press secretary of the CC.

Today is 60 years since the death of Joseph Stalin. Dissidents traditionally mark this day as a holiday; however, according to sociologists, most Russians believe that March 5 is the day of the end of "Great Terror".

One of the reasons of the collapse of the tunnel on March 3 in Sochi could be the dwelling house, built directly in the construction area without proper approvals, the builders assert.

The enhancement of the role of women in public life, economy, in elimination of discriminatory practices is hampered by traditional stereotypes and the passivity of women themselves. This was stated by the participants of the seminar held in Yerevan for businesswomen and youth of Armenia and Georgia.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, announced on March 4, continues in the territory of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. The local operational headquarters has urged local residents to remain calm and avoid panic and disorder.

Today, two solo pickets were held in Vladikavkaz against operation of the "Electrozink" Metallurgy Factory. The picketers were the sanitary doctor Atsamaz Khadikov and local resident Alan Alikov.