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On March 27, the Russia's Supreme Court upheld the verdict on the case dealing with preparation to blow up the high-speed passenger train "Sapsan", undertaken in the summer of 2011, dismissing the cassation complaint lodged by the four convicts sentenced to prison terms from 15 to 18 years.

Today, Judge Alexei Kupriyanov from the Krasnodar Territorial Court has requested the criminal case from the magistrate court of Sochi opened against the journalist Svetlana Kravchenko by the guard Vladimir Krivosheev who complained that he was beaten by her.

Rashidbek Shamsudinov, a resident of the suburb of Khasavyurt named Olympijsky, disappeared at night on March 26. His relatives fear that he had been kidnapped, Rashidbek's father-in-law Alibulat Khakimov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Amirkhan Aldamov, who went missing in December 2012, was found dead in the Gumbet District of Dagestan. The casualty is a brother Magomedali Amirkhanov, detained on suspicion of committing the terror act on August 28, 2012, which killed Sheikh Saeed(Said)Chirkey.

The court granted the motion of the defence in the lawsuit against the newspaper "Zhokhovurd" and lifted the arrest on the property of the correspondent of the edition Sona Grigoryan, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Today, by the ruling of the Baku Court of Appeal, Mamed Azizov, an activist of the civil movement "Nida", was left under arrest. His defence had petitioned in favour of his home arrest.

The Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has signed the amendments to the Constitution, which partly restrict the president's powers, said David Usupashvili, Chairman (Speaker) of the Parliament.

A picket with the demand of nationwide mayor’s election was held near the building of the city Duma in Volgograd.

The court dismissed a motion entered by the attorneys of Yusup Temerkhanov accused of ex-colonel Yuri Budanov’s murder to exclude some evidence from the materials of the criminal case.

In the morning of March, 26, unidentified people burst into “Parus” dormitory in Rostov-on-Don where about 100 persons lived and pulverized teargas. Eyewitnesses reported that several tenants were severely beaten up, a child was taken to resuscitation unit and two pregnant women to the emergency room.

Lera Alkhasova, ex-employee of the Ministry of Social Development and Labour, suspected of swindle with submitting Chernobyl cleanup veterans’ lawsuits was taken into custody in Kabardino-Balkaria.

A charge of illegal storage of drugs was brought against Dashgyn Melikov, youth activist of National Front of Azerbaijan party (NFAP), detained on March, 25. On March, 26, Sumgait city court selected a two-months term of arrest for him as preventive punishment, member of NFAP Elchin Gasanov reported.

Sunzha district court granted the claims of the tenants of a house pulled down in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevkaya, Ingushetia, acknowledging the actions of the administration of the settlement and the region unlawful.

The number of inhabitants of the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) "Promzhilbaza", whose eviction is demanded by the administration of the city of Karabulak, has been reduced from 46 to 41 persons, as five of them have been extended their status of internally displaced persons (IDPs). This was announced today at the session of the City Court.

In the morning of March, 25, workers of two building companies in Gabala held an action of protest against violation of their labour rights by the employer emphasizing their low wages.

In the course of today's session in Yerevan of the court that considers the case on the fight in the "Harsnaqar" Restaurant, the court has refused to grant the petition of defendants' advocates who demanded to question their clients in private (in the closed mode).

A book “Georgia Salvaged” devoted to the situation in Georgian prisons on the eve of the parliamentary election of 2012 was presented in Tbilisi. Its author is Roman Finn, writer, scientist, founder and Director of Canadian Institute for studies of the Soviet Union (Russia) and the countries of Eastern Europe (1981-2005).

On March 25, the pensioner David Geladze was washed away by a storm wave in the village of Kvariati, Adzharia; his fate is unknown, and he is being searched.

Trial on the case of terrorist act in “Domodedovo” airport in January of 2011 was continued in Moscow regional court today. Public prosecutor’s office interrogated the two defendants’ mother.

Dashgyn Melikov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) was detained in Sumgait on suspicion of making counterfeit money, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Abulfaz Gurbanly, the head of the youth committee of the above party.