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Refusal of Armenian performers' participation in the international song contest "Eurovision-2012", which will be held in Baku in May, will result in the impossibility for voting for participants. Yerevan has explained the reasons for the boycott of the song contest by the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

The father of Tamta Liparteliani, the student from Georgia perished in the terror act committed at the youth camp in Norway, will attend the trial against Anders Breivik accused of commitment of terror act and massacre of 77 persons.

For several weeks, there is no water supply in two villages of the Staropromyslovsky District of the Chechen capital. According to local residents, the city authorities and the community services of the city, show complete indifference to the problem.

At the European Championships in freestyle wrestling, held in the Serbian capital Belgrade, three athletes from Dagestan have already top places, including two gold medals.

On March, 7, a six-years-old boy taken to resuscitation unit two weeks before emerged out of a coma. According to the investigators, he was beaten up by a teacher of a family group.

One more person injured in an explosion in “Bellagio” café left hospital in Volgograd. So, 16 injured persons are still staying in hospitals of Moscow, Volgograd and Cologne (Germany).

Unidentified people in Azerbaijan threaten a well-known journalist Khadija Ismailova, correspondent of Azerbaijani service of “Radio Freedom”. This was reported by Ismailova herself. She associates the threats with her journalist’s activities.

Today, in Azerbaijan, the Absheron District Court concluded the trial against Ramin Bairamov, the editor-in-chief of the website Islamazeri.az. The Court found him guilty of illegal purchase and possession of weapons and drugs and sentenced him to 1.5 years of imprisonment.

During the press conference "Enough to crackdown Caucasus" held in Moscow, human rights defenders from different regions of Northern Caucasus have discussed the problems of election fraud, continuing kidnappings of people, and the situation with natives of the Caucasus serving their sentences in prisons in Russia.

Today, the Vilnius Regional Court, which considers the case against Egle Kusaite, accused of terrorism, announced the testimony of the Russian citizen Hasan Arsigiraev. According to the witness for the prosecution, Egle Kusaite wished to become a member of jihad, the holy war.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the Minister of Health, who until present was in a forced "vacation" for about two months after the scandal at the Nalchik Children's Hospital, has been finally dismissed from her position.

Azerbaijan and Georgia will submit a joint application to host the European Football Championship in 2020. This was announced by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in his today's speech to the Azerbaijani MPs. In the summer of 2014, the UEFA will make a decision to choose the countries for conducting the Championship.

Armenia refused to participate in the song contest "Eurovision-2012", which will be held in Baku in May. Today, the Armenian Public Television has officially informed the European Broadcasting Union of its decision. This is declared by the statement published on the official website of the song contest.

The identity of a suicide bomber, who blew herself up at the checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Karabudakhkent, was identified.

In Chechnya, workers of the organization "Spetsstroi" receive no wages since last October, although the managers have repeatedly promised to resolve the problem, the workers of the organization state. The managers explain wage arrears by absence of funds at the organization's accounts.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence to Leon Krivobokov, the resident of the city of Volgodonsk, who was sentenced by the Rostov Regional Court to 8.5 years of imprisonment at a high security colony for grenade explosion in a trading tent on the beach in the summer of 2010.

Ruslan Evkurov, a distant relative of the Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov, accused of committing fraud against the residents of the village of Dolakovo, began to gradually repay his debts to his creditors. However, he emphasizes that at present he cannot fully repay the money to deceived villagers.

According to Paata Zakareishvili, the conflict specialist, the representative of the oppositional Republican Party of Georgia, Vladimir Putin's victory in the election will result for Georgia in an attempt to return the country to the sphere of Russia's influence; however, it is impossible under present conditions.

The first session of Stavropol regional court where the case of Victor Dvorakovsky accused of preparation of an act of terror will be considered on the merits was appointed on March, 19, Press secretary of the court Violetta Bondareva informed.

A man wounded at the moment of an assault at a district police officer in the town of Kaspiysk, Dagestan, died in hospital.