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On Friday, March 28, in Yerevan, opponents of the mandatory accumulative pension system held an action blindfolded near the building of the Constitutional Court.

The court in Ingushetia has found Yunadi Shakhtamirov, a Chechen resident, guilty of an attempted murder of Ruslan Dakhkilgov, the head of the "Rosselkhoznadzor" (Russian Federal Agriculture Supervising Agency) for Ingushetia, and murder of his driver, says the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In today's world, the appearance of a Muslim may not always correspond to those trends of Islam that he/she professes; while close control over appearance of parishioners is a specific practice for Northern Caucasus – this is the comment of Islam scientists on the new instruction of the Kadi of Grozny, who obliged Chechen Imams to present weekly report on the appearance of their parishioners.

The positions of the countries of Southern Caucasus on the legitimacy of the Crimea's accession to Russia after the March 16 referendum were different. During the voting at the session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Azerbaijan and Georgia supported the territorial integrity of Ukraine, while Armenia voted against the resolution on recognizing the Crimean referendum illegal.

The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has put the woman, a native of North Ossetia, who was earlier searched in Sochi as a potential suicide bomber, on the wanted list. She is suspected of committing a number of terrorist crimes, the local MIA reports. Her orientation data was spread on the Internet since the summer of 2013.

Alikhan Kubuzov, a resident of the village of Dolakovo in the Republic of Ingushetia, was kidnapped on Friday morning by unidentified armed men, his wife Satsita Arselgova has reported.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has accused Aslan Ansokov, Director General of the LLC "AnKar", of embezzling 10 million roubles, transferred to him under the contract by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Instead of shipping potatoes to the MoD, the businessman spent the money on personal needs.

In the Azerbaijan-European Union (EU) relations, the year 2013 was somewhat decisive, which is confirmed by the agreements on visa facilitation and mobile partnership, and the progress in other areas of cooperation. However, in the field of democracy, Azerbaijan's progress was insignificant, says the annual EU report, prepared under the European Neighbourhood Policy.

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.