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After hours of questioning, journalists of the Ukrainian "1+1" TV Channel Natalka Pisnya, a correspondent of the news service (TSN), and Sergey Kiselyov, a cameraman, were deported from Abkhazia. This was reported by Sergey Popov, the head of the TSN.

In the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt, two residents of Chechnya have been detained, who are suspected of plotting the attempt on Saigidpasha Umakhanov, City Mayor. This was reported by the "Izvestia" with reference to anonymous source in the law enforcement agencies.

On March 12, at the session of the Moscow City Court, prosecutors finish presenting evidence against the defendants accused in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the initiative group has sent an open appeal to Yuri Kokov, the leader of the republic, asking to organize education and training for children in pre-school educational institutions and primary schools in their native languages.

Last year, 173 out of 408 solved terror crimes were ascribed to assassinated militants, said Yuri Chaika, the Russian General Public Prosecutor, who emphasized that in total, in 2013, Northern Caucasus saw 579 terror crimes, including nine terror acts.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has upheld the fine of 10,000 roubles imposed on the 75-year-old Lydia Lepsveridze for her picket held near Putin's residence.

In Prague, the closing ceremony of one of the major documentary film festivals on human rights "One World" took place. Russia was presented by a documentary about a Chechen guy "Zelim's Confessions".

A road train with 80 tons of humanitarian aid, collected in Dagestan for residents of the Crimea, has arrived to the peninsula, said the press service of the Ministry for National Policy of Dagestan.

In order to make the ski resort "Roza Khutor" in Sochi an all-season public tourist centre, it is necessary to further invest about 4.5 billion roubles, said Vladimir Potanin, the head of the "Interros" Company.

Movsar Kuntalov, the administration head of the Achkhoy-Martan village of the Chechen Republic is suspected of illegal transfer of agricultural land into the category of residential land with subsequent delivery of the land to individuals, the republic's prosecutor's office reports.

A rally under the motto "Return power to people!" held on March 10 in the village of Khuchni, Tabasaran District of Dagestan, was attended by about 200 people, who demanded to change local power and open criminal cases on embezzlement of funds of the district budget.

After their return to Baku, Gyulyaga Aslanly, the deputy head of the "Musavat" Party, Arif Gadjily, the head of the party's office, and Emil Salamoglu, a correspondent of the newspaper "Eni Musavat", who had been detained on March 10 in Makhachkala by Russian policemen, have declared the illegality of their detention.

The NATO is grouping its troops around Ukraine to support the invasion of the Ukrainian Army into the Crimea after the referendum scheduled for March 16, said Konstantin Sivkov, the vice-president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems.

Sooner or later, the people's revolutionary movement in Azerbaijan will get organized and repeat the events in Ukraine, since the authorities behave violently with people, supporters of the Azerbaijani opposition assert. In his turn, Rasim Musabekov, an Azerbaijani MP, is sure that there are no prerequisites for a sort of Ukrainian Maidan in Baku.

In Makhachkala airport "Uytash" power agents have detained five natives of the village of Novosasitli, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who had spent more than two months in Egypt, said Rasul Maazov, a relative of one of the detainees. Today, he has turned to the HRC "Memorial" with an application about their detention.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has seen similarities with the armed conflict in Chechnya in the messages arriving from the Crimea about detentions and disappearances of journalists, activists, and Ukrainian militaries.

In Yerevan, on Tuesday, a rally-march was held in support of the arrested Retired Colonel Volodya Avetisyan and other political prisoners. The event was joined by supporters of Shant Arutyunyan, who was arrested along with 13 protesters on November 5, 2013.

On Tuesday, Gyulyaga Aslanly, the deputy head of the "Musavat" Party, Arif Gadjily, the head of the party's office, and Emil Salamoglu, a correspondent of the newspaper "Eni Musavat", who had been detained on March 10 in Makhachkala by Russian policemen and convoyed under police surveillance to Azerbaijan, returned to Baku.

In Armenia, relatives of the 77-year-old Mamikon Khodjoyan have allowed rights defenders to file a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against Azerbaijani authorities. It is planned that the complaint will be lodged by the Armenian NGO "Against Legal Lawlessness".

Under the pretext of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which was introduced in the Untsukul District of Dagestan on March 8, searches were conducted by power agents in the village of Kharachi. Locals associate the introduction of the regime with the protest actions held in the area of the Irganai reservoir.