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Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma Deputy from Chechnya, has sent a request to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika asking to check the information about payment of large sums of money to the armed underground by the head of the Ingush government, as it was stated on air of Channel One by the surrendered militant Ibragim Torzhkhoev. In Ingushetia, the situation was treated as a provocation on the eve of the presidential election in the republic.

Olga Nikolenko, Judge of the Moscow City Court (MCC), has decided to hear the criminal case about the fight at the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeisky" in Moscow with participation of a jury.

Azerbaijan has pulled up some military equipment and a special unit closer to certain sections of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, said Artsrun Ovannisyan, the press secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

A rise of the ground water in the eastern part of the Ingush city of Malgobek has caused flooding of the area inhabited by over a thousand families, said Akhmed Dodov, the head of the city administration.

The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russia's Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) will re-check the quality of the Georgian mineral water "Borjomi", the producers of which are going to resume their exports to the Russian market, said Gennady Onischenko, the head of the agency.

Today, in Baku, the police have arrested Zaur Gurbanly, a blogger and an activist of the movement "Nida". By decision of the Nasimi District Court the activist was arrested for three months.

Magomed Akhmedov, an investigator of the Kirov District of Makhachkala, was detained on suspicion of committing several contract murders, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Today, residents of the village of Nardaran in Azerbaijan have held a protest in demand of release of theologian Talekh Bagirzade and other believers, arrested for taking part in actions in defence of citizens' religious rights.

The demands of the workers of oil enterprise Bos Shelf producing oil drilling platforms in Azerbaijan who on March, 18, went on a strike demanding higher wages, benefit packages and solution of a number of other problems were granted in part.

On March, 1, 23 persons were delivered to the police department during a mass scuffle with the use of traumatic arms in Stavropol. Administrative protocols were drawn up concerning 17 of them, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in Stavropol region reports.

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov suggested to restrict exit from the territory of the country for the officials who have access to secret information.

After the match “Krasnodar” - “Anzhi” on March, 31, about 70 people assaulted seven fans of the Dagestani club. There are injured persons, one was hospitalized, leaders of “Anzhi” fans association “Dikaya Divizia” (“Wild Division”) report.

Residents of the settlement of Untsukul, Dagestan, submitted a multi-authored appeal to Ramazan Abdulatipov acting as President of Dagestan asking him to respond to a special operation in the settlement of Semender during which seven persons were killed, among them Magomedhabib Magomedaliev, Chairman of Untsukul district Assembly.

No less than eight persons got injured in an armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from March, 25, till March, 31, 2013. Four out of them perished and three were wounded. This is the total of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

A joint documentary made by authors from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey "Memoirs Without Borders" dedicated to problems of the residents of Southern Caucasus, who had suffered from the Armenian Genocide and Karabakh conflict, was presented in Tbilisi.

The Commission of the National Agency for Probation of Georgia has cancelled before term the punishment and removed conviction from four photojournalists, who had been sentenced on charges of spying for Russia, said Sozar Subari, the Minister for Correction, Probation and Legal Assistance.

In Baku, on March 30, Uzeir Mamedli and Rashadat Akhundov, the members of the board of the civil movement "Nida" (Shout), were detained. By decision of the Nasimi District Court, both activists were arrested for three months, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The military training ground in Vaziani near Tbilisi holds the exercises "Agile Spirit-2013"; they began on March 11 and will end on April 5. The active phase of the exercises was completed on March 29.

Today, the Khosta District of Sochi was affected by a landslide. A day earlier, on March 29, in the Lazarevskoe District in Sochi a landslide hit the township of Shkhafit. A four-apartment house in Adygeiskaya Street was under threat of destruction; its residents were evacuated.

A strong fire in a building that is under construction in central Baku in the evening on March 29 damaged two apartments in the adjacent three-storey house and two cars. According to the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Azerbaijan, there are no fire casualties.