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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.

The first stage of inspection of Georgia's wineries and mineral water factories by the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) is over; in total, 44 factories were inspected. According to Gennady Onischenko, the head of the above agency, there were some drawbacks revealed at the factories; however, they can be easily eliminated.

In Azerbaijan, a group in the Facebook "Stop soldiers' deaths!" is inviting people to a protest action associated with the death of Private Seimur Allakhverdiev.

A book about Makhachkala "There Was a City..." was published in Dagestan; it is a collection of memoirs of 83 residents of Makhachkala recorded by journalists Svetlana Anokhina and Polina Sanaeva and illustrated by photographs – views of the city and portraits of the authors and memoir heroes.

On February 28, the capital of Armenia hosted a mourning march and a prayer in memory of the ten persons who perished on March 2008, when the police dispersed a peaceful rally demanding to nullify the election totals.

The Tsentralny District Court of Sochi has considered the appeal lodged by Svetlana Kravchenko, a journalist of the "Caucasian Knot" against the verdict on the case of beating Vladimir Krivosheev, a guard of the Private Guarding Enterprise (known as "ChOP") "Region-3". The court has sent the case to reconsideration.

The emotions of the students' strike in Armenia are getting beyond borders, said Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Sciences, and called the organizers to admit that their action has failed.

The rapper Said Aliev, more broadly known as Dado, was arrested in Baku. His relatives believe that the young singer is persecuted for his video clip YPX, in which he criticises the practice of bribe-taking among road police.

The Itum-Kalin District of Chechnya has held a broad-scale presentation of the alpine ski resort "Veduchi" with participation of famous athletes from nine countries.

In January, the utility employees of the Chechen capital managed to collect 121 percent of all types of payments for housing and municipal services. Residents of Grozny report about raids aimed to disconnect the debtors from gas, electricity and water supplies.

A possible warfare launched against Iran will throw the development of Southern Caucasus back for many years; the tension is already telling on the attractiveness of economic projects. This was stated by the participants of the video bridge "Moscow – Astana – Yerevan" that was held on February 25 in Moscow in the presence of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Suren Gazaryan from Krasnodar, a member of the Coordination Board of the Russian opposition and an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", has been nominated for the Netizen Prize.

On February 28, Nogorno-Karabakh marked the anniversary of the tragedy in Sumgait. The eyewitnesses of those events believe that the pogroms should be adequately assessed by the world community, while Azerbaijan should compensate the material damage and moral harm suffered by the victims.

On February 28, a number of Abkhazian oppositional organizations held a protest rally in Sukhumi against increasing tariffs on power, during which they also moved a demand to dismiss the government.