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In the evening on March 7, in the village of Mingrelskaya, the Abinsk District of the Krasnodar Territory, an armed conflict burst out, resulting in the death of the village ataman Sergey Osminin, and another Cossack injured his leg, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Baku, on the eve of the protest action against the non-combat losses in the army scheduled for March 10, the members of the civil movement "Nida" Bakhtiyar Guliev, Mohammed Azizov and Shakhin Novruzov. This was reported stated by Uzeir Mamedli, a member of the board of the movement. In Gandzha, the police have detained Makhir Bairamly, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, said his wife Gyulbeniz Ulutyurk.

The two Chechen hafiz schools (of experts who know the Koran by heart) made the first release of graduates. The hafiz schools in Tsentaroy and Gudermes were finished by 61 young residents of Chechnya.

Leonid Lakerbaya, Prime Minister of Abkhazia, said he would not accept the opposition's demand for his resignation. In his turn, Raul Khajimba, the chairman of the oppositional "Forum of National Unity of Abkhazia" has stated that the country needs reforms.

In South Ossetia, refugees from Georgia – families of fire victims and families with many children, who moved in 2012 to new apartments of the neighbourhood "Solnechny", may be left without electric power because of their rising debts for electricity.

Today, the population of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) commemorates victims of political repressions against the Balkar people.

The journalist Faramaz Allakhverdiev, sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, has gone on hunger strike and sewed up his mouth. His protest is against rejection of his petition to hold repeated hearings on his case.

The governmental building now housing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia is being sold to Eduardo Ernekyan, an Argentine businessman of Armenian origin. According to his programme, the building will house a five-star hotel.

Absalitdin Murzaev, the head of the Board of Elders of the Kumyk People, who was beaten on March 3 in Dagestan, is sure that crime can be solved quickly only given the want of local authorities.

Today, activists of the NGO "National Front" have held a protest action in Tbilisi near the Turkish Embassy against Islamization of Adzharia. The action was about 50 persons strong.

As reported today by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the prosecution of Inal Berov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who was suspected of robbery, was stopped on February 28.

As reported by Akhmed Khaibulaev, a deputy of the rural council, the militaries and law enforcers, who had blocked the village of Novosasitli, the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, blew up two houses, arrested six persons and left the village.

The biathletes, who take part in the Eighth Round of the Biathlon World Cup that has started today in Sochi, complain about organization and the procedure of customs clearance.

The authorities of Adygea have suggested the Syrian citizens – Circassians and Adygs – who arrived in Adygea after their country had plunged into warfare, to settle in rural areas of the republic.

Since today's morning, the Lenin District of Grozny is raided by workers of gas and utilities services who try to collect debts from consumers, as residents of the Chechen capital report. After making checks, debtors are cut off from gas supply lines.

The heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Azerbaijan Colonel-General Ramil Usubov and Kyamaleddin Geidarov have filed lawsuits against Ganimat Zakhidov, the editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper "Azadlyg". They need to bring the journalists to justice in the order of private accusation for libel.

On March 6, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, where the case of Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado", is considered, heard the evidence of Elman Guliev, the main prosecution's witness. The session was closed for public; therefore, the defendant is still refusing to evidence in protest against it.

Residents of the village of Chegem-2 in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) state their readiness to block the bypass section of the Highway "Kavkaz", if the authorities fail to solve the problem of leaving the village.

On March 6, at the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, at the trial of Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", the journalist and his advocates made their closing remarks.

The Finance Ministry of Ingushetia has initiated a state order to the sum of 2,630,000 roubles under the item of "Rendering services related to designer Zaira Gatagazheva's participation in the Volvo Fashion Week in Moscow.