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The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has topped the citation rating of bloggers-governors this February; the rating is based on the study conducted by the "Medialogy" Company. The top ten positions also include the heads of two more regions of Southern Russia – Alexander Tkachov, the governor of the Krasnodar Territory; and Alexander Zhilkin, the governor of the Astrakhan Region.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has been informed by South-Ossetian entrepreneurs that the import of foodstuffs to their country has been blocked again.

The Nasimi District Court of Baku has dismissed the petition asking to change the freedom restriction measure of Ilgar Mamedov, the head of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) for home arrest.

On March 11, the Krasnodar Territorial Court continued hearing the case on the murder in Sochi of pensioner Maevskaya. The session was attended by human rights defender Grigory Uchkurov, who was to represent the interests of Yuri Maevskiy, the stepson of the murdered woman.

Today, the Moscow Regional Court continued considering the case on the terror act committed at the "Domodedovo" Airport in January 2011. A witness, who is now serving his term in a colony in North Ossetia, was questioned through videoconferencing.

Cossacks of the Terek Cossack Army are invited to maintain order during the counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in a number of dwelling settlements of North Ossetia.

Law enforcers are conducting a major special operation in a forest near the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan, a local resident told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Out of the 52 Georgian wine producers that had applied for importing their products into Russia, only 19 have delivered the documents for examination; and only one company brought its wine samples, said Gennady Onischenko, the head of the "Rospotrebnadzor".

As reported by relatives and the doctor on duty of the Republic's Clinical Hospital (RCH) in Nalchik, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the health condition of Mukhamed Khabilov, who jumped on February 25 from a third floor window of the MIA building.

The four suspected militants killed today in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have been identified. According to the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of the Russian Federation, they were engaged in supplying members of the armed underground with arms and ammunition; and were involved in extorting money from businessmen. Eight suspected militants were also detained in the course of today's special operation.

Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes has announced the conviction to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural" Avaz Zeinalov. Azerbaijani human rights activists have already called Zeinalov a political prisoner.

More than two thousand Cossacks from the Don, Terek, Kuban and the Urals have signed a petition to the authorities to recognize them as a nation.

During a charity concert of Yuri Bashmet in Tbilisi on March 11, several dozens of young people held a protest action, demanding the arrest the musician for his visiting Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

In Azerbaijan, parents of the arrested activists of the civil movement "Nida" (Shout) Bakhtiyar Guliev, Shakhin Novruzlu and Mamed Aziziov refused from the services of independent lawyers, suggested by the leaders of the movement. The leaders of the movement are concerned about possible pressure on the detainees and believe that the criminal case against them was fabricated.

Three out of four figurants in the murder case of Fral Shebzukhov, an advisor of the former head of Karachay-Cherkessia, convicted by the Supreme Court of the republic to various terms of imprisonment, have appealed against their verdict.

The investigation of a criminal case against four senior officials of the Krymsk District, accused of negligence that entailed deaths during the flood in July 2012, is over. The case has been sent to the prosecutor's office for approval of the indictment.

Residents of the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, who run a hunger strike in disagreement with the growth of utility rates, have stopped their protest action for the time of negotiations with regional authorities.

After Renat Temrezov was shot dead by a policeman, the village of Chapaevskoe, Karachay-Cherkessia, hosted a protest action that was attended by about 400 people, the villagers report. After the funeral, a meeting took place of local residents with the district administration; and there no "spontaneous" sentiments in the village, according to Marat Botashev, the head of the rural settlement.

Five citizens of Azerbaijan have been subjected to administrative arrest, and 16 others were fined for taking part in a non-sanctioned protest against non-combat losses in the army. The rulings were passed today by the Sabail and Nasimi District Courts of Baku.

Today, at the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia, which hears the case on non-recognition of the results of the presidential election, a former candidate Andreas Gukasyan has demanded to remove the representatives of the incumbent president and to involve the president himself in the process.