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Today the picketers on duty who were blocking the traffic of large-size techniques in the territory of a children’s center in Constitution street of Sochi round the clock underwent an assault from unidentified persons.

Lawyer of entrepreneur Khachatur Sukiasyan, the representative of the Armenian National Congress (NAC), appealed to the Administrative Court a complaint against the decision of the election commission of the district No. 10, which refused to register Khachatur Sukiasyan as a candidate for MP.

Evgeny Ischenko, ex-Mayor of Volgograd, decided to challenge the verdict of guilty pronounced against him in 2007 and intends to prove his innocence. His lawyer Alexei Rozhnov has already filed a supervisory appeal to the Presidium of the Volgograd Regional Court.

The status of the "Caucasian Games" will be changed to make them international. This was announced by Yuri Oleinikov, Deputy Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), at the meeting of the organizing committee of the cultural and sports festival, which was held on March 29 in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region has filed to the court a complaint demanding to eliminate overcrowding at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1.

Today Muscovites and guests of the city are bringing flowers to the scene of the acts of terror in the Moscow metro which happened two years ago.

The tour operators explain decrease of the traditional stream of Iranian tourists coming to celebrate Novruz in Armenia by inflation in Iran, high prices in Armenia and rivalry of Georgia.

Rashid Temrezov, the leader of Karachay-Cherkessia, signed the decree to establish the Commission to assist in adapting to civilian life those persons, who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities in the territory of the republic.

On March 27, in the Masalli District, located in the south of Azerbaijan, in 250 km from Baku, a group of local residents went on a hunger strike to express their dissatisfaction with the activity of the local administration.

The District Election Commission (DEC) No. 10 refused to register Khachatur Sukiasyan, an entrepreneur, a representative of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), as a candidate for MP.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, public representatives of the Adyge-Khabl and the Khabez Municipal Districts and the Board of Elders of Circassian Nation (BECN) urged the authorities to terminate the powers of Vyacheslav Derev, the member of the Council of Federation. In case, if their demands are not satisfied, the representatives of the Circassian community intend to hold on March 30 a rally in the central square of the city of Cherkessk.

The investigatory agencies of the Novosibirsk Region do not deny the fact that Anzor Kunashev, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, who disappeared in the Novosibirsk Region, had been detained by regional power agents, and they promised to provide information on the issue only to the family member of the detainee.

This morning, in Azerbaijan, Tarana Gabibova, a resident of the town of Khachmaz, jumped from the fifth floor. According to her relatives, Tarana Gabibova committed suicide because of the fact that law enforcement agents did not investigate the murder of her mother Nadjima Babaeva, who was the owner of the major shopping centre "Arzu" in Khachmaz. The family members believe that the murder of Nadjima Babaeva was backed by the local authorities.

Islam Kurmanov, a student from the city of Nalchik of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), has appealed to human rights defenders with a complaint of torture and enforcement to testify about the crimes, which he had not committed.

On March, 27, the Court in Strasbourg brought judgments on the cases of ten-years standing concerning murders and kidnapping of residents of Chechnya and obliged Russia to pay compensations to a total sum of 220 thousand euros and 8500 euros legal costs.

On March, 27, opening of neurology and neurosurgery unit of Republican hospital No 2 and a new line of orthopedic and traumatology center equipped with techniques of the latest generation was held.

Evgeniy Bukrimov and Igor Astafiev – participants of the termless political hunger strike in Astrakhan – have health problems: they were rendered medical aid.

Today, the Georgian MPs have approved – in the third and final reading – amendments to several legislative acts, according to which the racial, language, religious, national or ethnic intolerance becomes an aggravating circumstance of a crime.

A group of 17 Circassians has arrived from Syria to Kabardino-Balkaria, as reported by Beslan Khagazheev (Khagazhei), a board member of the public organization "Peryt" engaged in assisting compatriots to come back and settle in their homeland.

The City Court of Cherkessk has acquitted Rasul Adjiev, 35, who was accused of murdering one of the activists of the youth movement "Adyge-Khase" Aslan Zhukov, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a source from the City Court.