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The problem of journalists' safety in Azerbaijan is still valid, and it requires effective measures to protect the journalists. This was emphasized by participants of the "round table" entitled "Development and improvement of system for journalists' safety in Azerbaijan" held on March 2 in Baku.

Residents of the capital of Dagestan complain about pressure on voters on the eve of the election of Russian President. According to their story, the republic's authorities are trying to raise the voter turnout. The Ministry of Education and Sciences of Dagestan, which is accused of using their administrative resources, said that working to improve the voter turnout within the law.

Today, in the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, two women who agitated for the presidential candidate Sergey Mironov, the leader of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, were attacked by unidentified persons. Suspects were arrested and now checked by the police.

Murat Kunashev, a resident of the city of Nartkaly, Kabardino-Balkaria, was kidnapped by unidentified armed men, who questioned him about his acquaintance with militants and forced him by torture to sign some documents. Then they let him go.

On March, 1, two officials of the Administration of Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan were detained for suspicion of receiving a bribe to a sum of ten million rubles, the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs informed.

Head of Dagestan ordered the Ministry of Public Health of the republic to pay the total cost of treatment of Malik Ahmadov, a nineteen-years-old native of the settlement of Kurakh, Kurakh district of Dagestan, who became disabled saving his peer girl who was sinking in the Caspian sea and consider the question of rewarding him.

Rasul Abdulkarimov, resident of Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, was carried away in an unknown direction by armed and camouflaged people, his sister Asiyat Abdulkarimova reported. Officials of District Department of Interior Affairs of Khasavyurt district state that they have no such a detainee.

The international organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) has presented a study on the facts of mass violations of citizens' property rights in Baku. On February 29, the presentation of the document "I have been deprived of everything: forced resettlements in Baku, illegal expropriation and destruction of property" was held at the Baku Hotel "Diplomat".

On February 29, in Azerbaijan, the Nakhichevan Court for Grave Crimes began a trial on case against the political activist Zeinal Bagirzade.

Omar Sagidmagomedov, a member of the City Bar Association "Kavkaz", was murdered by power agents; however, the investigatory authorities are in no haste to investigate the criminal case instituted on the fact of the murder. This was reported by Sagidmagomedov's colleagues on February 29.

In the city of Budyonnovsk, an ex-policeman accused of abuse of power with serious consequences, will face justice.

The situation in the city of Guba in the north of Azerbaijan has normalized after release of all the people detained during spontaneous protest actions. In the course of the riots, Abderrashad Vagif-oglu, a reporter of the Internet TV "Objective TV", was wounded in his head by a stone.

Murad Yandiev, the accountant of the human rights organization "Mashr", whose disappearance was reported today by his colleagues, has been detained and is kept at the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Nazran.

Today in the morning, Abdurakhman Djakaev, a resident of the village of Mutsalaul, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, was taken away to some unknown place by armed men in camouflage. This was reported by his mother Patimat Djakaeva. The Khasavyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) said that they had no such a detainee.

Today, Rashidat Khalidova, a resident of the village of Chontaul, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, has reported disappearance of her husband Akav Khalidov, 28.

Ruslan Rakhaev, ex-Deputy Police Chief and former head of the criminal and investigation unit of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Cherkessk, who was searched on suspicion of beating an arrested man to death, was detained by law enforcers. This was reported by the MIA of Karachay-Cherkessia.

The number of participants of the protest action in the form of hunger strike in the city of Lermontov of the Stavropol Territory has already reached 38 persons. According to them, they do not intend to stop their protest action. Yuri Turygin, Prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory, established in the city a temporary reception of the Prosecutor's Office.

The police dispersed the participants of an action in front of the building of executive authority in Guba district of Azerbaijan. The number of detainees makes about 200. However, disturbances are going on. The protesters burned down the house of Rauf Khabibov, Head of executive authority, and demand release of those detained.

The woman owner of a house in the settlement of Gimry, Dagestan, exploded by unidentified people this morning is safe but the building got a considerable damage, the "Caucasian Knot" referring to local residents reports.

In the evening of February, 29, resident of the town of Karabulak Murad Yandiev, member of human rights center "MASHR", disappeared in Ingushetia, representatives of the organization report.