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The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, announced on March 4, continues in the territory of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. The local operational headquarters has urged local residents to remain calm and avoid panic and disorder.

Today, two solo pickets were held in Vladikavkaz against operation of the "Electrozink" Metallurgy Factory. The picketers were the sanitary doctor Atsamaz Khadikov and local resident Alan Alikov.

In Volgograd, the members of the public organization (in the process of creation) "Independent Inspection" made an inspection of motor roads with the aim to protect citizens' rights and combat corruption. The action was 30 persons strong.

Today, representatives of Raffi Ovannisyan, a former presidential candidate and the leader of the oppositional party "Heritage", have lodged a suit to the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia against the outcomes of the presidential election.

The advocates of the ex-minister of interior of Ingushetia Ruslan Meiriev and of the former head of the Nazran ROVD (District Interior Division) Ali Yandiev, accused of negligence, have appealed against the ruling of the Supreme Court of the republic to transfer the case to the Magas District Court.

In Azerbaijan, the journalist Faramaz Allakhverdiev, who was sentenced to 4.5 years of deprivation of freedom, plans to go on hunger strike since March 5. This was reported by his advocate Fariz Namazly.

After the today's meeting with Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has stated his intention to go on with the dialogue in the country and promised not to dissolve the parliament and the government. By the outcomes of the meeting, both leaders have held separate briefings, where they told about their vision as to solving the political crisis in the country.

Absalitdin Murzaev, the head of the Board of Elders of the Kumyk Nation, who was beaten on March 3 in Dagestan, was to make a report, on March 18, at the administration of the Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Russian Federation to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), on corruption in land issues in Northern Caucasus. The attack could have to do with the presentation of the report, Mr Murzaev has supposed.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has extended till July 7 the arrest of the ex-militiaman Sergey Khadjikurbanov, a figurant of the murder case of the journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, said the press service of the MCC.

Today at night, Islam Shakhtamarov, one of the suspects of the armed attack on Ruslan Dakhkilgov, the head of the department of the Rosselkhoznadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Agricultural Supervision) for Ingushetia, died at the Central Republic's Hospital of Nazran.

During the week from February 25 to March 3, 2013, at least nine persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus: one of them died and eight were wounded. These are the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On March 3, over fifty activists of the Makarenko dwelling district in Sochi 3 held a rally of citizens, where they collected signatures against construction of a "Magnit" network store and authorities' commanding the territory of dwelling districts through disregarding public opinion.

In Azerbaijan, the demand of the parents of the Private Seimur Allakhverdiev, who perished while at his military service, to hold a repeated forensic examination was not satisfied.

The "Social March" in Rostov-on-Don with a demand to decrease the utility tariffs was 20 persons strong.

Today, the non-registered nationalistic political party "Novaya Sila" (New Force) has held a picket opposite the building of the administration of the city of Nevinnomyssk with a demand that the Stavropol Territory leaves the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). The police gave detained one of the picketers.

Armen Nazaryan, a winner of the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000, has announced a hunger strike in protest against the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not to recommend wrestling into the programme of the Olympiad-2020.

Today, Baku hosted actions in memory of journalist Elmar Guseinov who was assassinated eight years ago.

President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili can dissolve the parliament in April 2013; however, this is not within his interests, Gela Vasadze, the editor-in-chief of the Agency "Black Sea Press", believes. In his turn, Irakly Menagarishvili, the head of the Centre of Strategic Studies, asserts that dissolution of the parliament by Saakashvili can be quite well expected.

An extension to the trade gallery has collapsed in central Sochi. The construction turned into garbage covering the whole territory, which had earlier been a greenery zone and a park, townspeople assert.

Officer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan came to Moscow to tell about the problems of their ministry. A group of officers is seeking an appointment with the Russia's Interior Minister and asks to hold a broad-scale audit of the MIA, City and District Interior Divisions of Dagestan.