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The police had actually kidnapped the theologian Talekh Bagirzade, while the charges of drug possession are absurd, Mirgasym Aliev, a relative of Bagirzade, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Seven servicemen were wounded by two explosions triggered in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia; some of them will be sent by a special flight to Moscow for treatment.

Today, the Soviet District Court of Astrakhan has ruled to stop the criminal case about the explosion in a nine-storey apartment building in February 2012, the collapse of which killed 11 persons, said Elena Yaroslavtseva, the spokesperson of the Astrakhan Regional Court.

The imprisonment term for Zalina Gabibulaeva and Zaira Akaeva, residents of Dagestan, sentenced today to two years in colony, will be counted from the day of their detention.

Today, the Lenin District Court of Rostov-on-Don has arrested in absentia two suspects of murdering Alexander Terekhov, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Today, the Sabunchi District Court of Baku has arrested the theologian Talekh Bagirzade, accused of drug possession, for two months. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Mirgasym Aliev, a relative of Bagirzade.

Today, the police have stopped a protest action held in Baku by internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Hostel No. 5 of the Baku State University.

The protest action against arrests of activists of youth organizations, scheduled for April 12 in Baku, has been postponed indefinitely, said its organizer, the editor-in-chief of "Azadlyg" Ganimat Zakhid.

12 students of the North-Caucasian Federal University (NCFU), who took part in a mass brawl in Stavropol, have been expelled.

Grach Muradyan, the head of the village of Proshyan, the Kotaik Region of Armenia, was found dead. According to the police, he was killed because of his professional activities.

Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma Deputy from Chechnya, has sent a request to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika asking to check the information about payment of large sums of money to the armed underground by the head of the Ingush government, as it was stated on air of Channel One by the surrendered militant Ibragim Torzhkhoev. In Ingushetia, the situation was treated as a provocation on the eve of the presidential election in the republic.

Olga Nikolenko, Judge of the Moscow City Court (MCC), has decided to hear the criminal case about the fight at the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeisky" in Moscow with participation of a jury.

Azerbaijan has pulled up some military equipment and a special unit closer to certain sections of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, said Artsrun Ovannisyan, the press secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

A rise of the ground water in the eastern part of the Ingush city of Malgobek has caused flooding of the area inhabited by over a thousand families, said Akhmed Dodov, the head of the city administration.

The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russia's Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) will re-check the quality of the Georgian mineral water "Borjomi", the producers of which are going to resume their exports to the Russian market, said Gennady Onischenko, the head of the agency.

Today, in Baku, the police have arrested Zaur Gurbanly, a blogger and an activist of the movement "Nida". By decision of the Nasimi District Court the activist was arrested for three months.

Magomed Akhmedov, an investigator of the Kirov District of Makhachkala, was detained on suspicion of committing several contract murders, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Today, residents of the village of Nardaran in Azerbaijan have held a protest in demand of release of theologian Talekh Bagirzade and other believers, arrested for taking part in actions in defence of citizens' religious rights.

The demands of the workers of oil enterprise Bos Shelf producing oil drilling platforms in Azerbaijan who on March, 18, went on a strike demanding higher wages, benefit packages and solution of a number of other problems were granted in part.

On March, 1, 23 persons were delivered to the police department during a mass scuffle with the use of traumatic arms in Stavropol. Administrative protocols were drawn up concerning 17 of them, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in Stavropol region reports.