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The city of Volgograd held public hearings on return of the direct election of Mayor. City residents, who participated in the event, voted unanimously for making appropriate changes to the city charter.

The Prosecutor's Office has confirmed an indictment in the case against Islam Khashagulgov, the resident of the Republic of Ingushetia, suspected of manufacturing an explosive device, triggered in 2010 at the market in Vladikavkaz. This was reported by the Russian General Prosecutor's Office.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the public organization in the repatriation of compatriots and their settlement in the land of their ancestors "Peryt" announced the raising of funds to organize assistance to repatriates from Syria. This was reported by Beslan Khagazheev, the member of the Board of the public organization.

Status of health of Ilaishat Alieva, a woman-resident of the village of Tukita of the Akhvakh District of Dagestan, whose all four children perished in fire on March 17, remains extremely grave.

On April 1, in Volgograd, protest action against bad roads, entitled "Fools and Roads", will gather 200 vehicles. The protest action is coordinated with the authorities. This was reported by Armen Oganesyan, Chairman of the interregional public organization "Movement of Motorists".

In Yerevan, a new initiative, which opposes construction in the Mashtots Park, was formed. A group of public figures expressed their support to the activists, who demand to dismantle trade stalls transferred from Abovyan Street to the park.

Lawyers of the family members of Hrant Dink, the editor of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper "Agos", appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office in Istanbul, demanding to initiate a new investigation to clarify the unexplored details.

At least 14 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in the period of March 19-25: 9 persons were killed and 5 wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", based on own materials and information from other public sources.

Information about the detention on March 24 in the suburbs of Makhachkala of the persons suspected of possessing weapons does not represent the real facts. This was stated by activists of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" and the public organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

According to the preliminary outcomes of the repeated elections held on March 24, 2012, in 20 constituencies, three nominees of oppositional forces – the Hero of Abkhazia Aslan Kobakhiya, the head of the organization named "Akhyatsa" Akhra Bzhaniya, and the surgeon Apollon Gurguliya – were elected as new MPs.

As reported by the General Prosecutor's Office of South Ossetia, the leader of the opposition and the former presidential candidate Alla Djioeva is now free of any suspicions of an attempted illegal seizure of power – now she is just a witness in the litigation.

Today, in the cities of Kaspiisk and Izberbash, 130 families received keys to their flats in the energy-efficient apartment blocks, for the first time built in Northern Caucasus within the framework of the federal programme aimed to resettle people from shabby housing.

The man, killed during an armed skirmish with policemen in Dagestan, has been identified as Stanislav Shisinov. According to Russia's NAC (National Antiterrorist Committee), he was a member of the "southern" terrorist grouping.

In Astrakhan today, after an action in support of the participants of the political hunger strike, which demands abolition of the election of the city Mayor, two hunger-strikers – Yaroslav Savin and Oleg Anikin – were hospitalized.

Today, Gadji Isadibirov, a suspect of involvement in the armed underground, who had been blocked in an apartment in a high-rise building in Makhachkala, has surrendered after negotiations under the personal guarantees of the head of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov.

On March 23-24, Lyudmila Shestak, a member of the Sochi City Assembly from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), held solo pickets at the city Mayoralty. According to her story, her protest was caused by the "negligent" attitude of Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov to the green plantings of the resort city.

Residents of several villages of the mountainous Khuloy District of Adzharia have suffered from landslides caused by melting of huge masses of snow.

On March 23, the personal reception of local citizens by Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and his deputy Boris Karnaukhov, was over only in early morning today. In total 62 persons were listened to; and about fifty more left their written complaints and petitions addressed to the ICRF bosses.

The Office has made a presentation to the head of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "Gorvodocanal" based on complaints of residents of the Staropromyslovsky District of Grozny on absence of water. The grounds for the prosecutor's check were found in the materials published by the "Caucasian Knot".

Residents of the shabby house No. 7a Azatamartikneri Street demand that the authorities either repair the building or demolish it and resettle its residents.