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The Human Rights Ombudsman of Armenia Karen Andreasyan has treated the police's ban to install a tent for Raffi Ovannisyan, Chairman of the "Heritage", who continues his hunger strike in Freedom Square in Yerevan, as a human rights violation.

During the week on March 14-20, the low intensity armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 12 lives and injured at least 10 persons. These are the calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" made on the basis of its own sources and other open data outlets.

The Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev and his brother Berd, who were sentenced today to ten days of administrative arrest, were again taken instead of the Nazran IVS (temporary detention facility) to some other unknown place. This was reported by their sister Khadi Khazbieva.

The Moscow Court has issued a warrant in absentia to arrest Alexei Korshunov, 28, a Muscovite and the alleged killer of Eduard Chuvashov, a Moscow City Court judge, in April 2010. According to the investigation the reason of the murder was the judge's participation in judicial processes on extremist crimes.

Currently, policemen from the Sunzha ROVD (District Interior Division) from Ingushetia are searching the house of Zurab Tsechoev, an employee of the human rights organization "MASHR", located in the village of Troitskaya, Sunzha District. The "Caucasian Knot" was informed about it by Vakha Chapanov, head of the Ingush News Agency "Maximum".

On the video record from the place of abduction of the opposition leader Magomed Khazbiev, which was committed on March 23 from his father's house in Nazran, the kidnappers are visible - there were about twenty of them. They were armed men dressed in camouflage; some of them were in masks, but there were also people in ordinary police uniform with open faces.

On March 22, Magomed Gorchkhanov, a resident of the village of Plievo in Ingushetia, addressed his applications to the authorities of Ingushetia and human rights activists asking them to help in searching his kidnapped brother Ilez Gorchkhanov and protect his constitutional rights.

Today in the morning, fifteen ecological activists have blocked the construction works in the territory of Cape Vidny, Khosta District of Sochi, where they are currently laying the railway track and building a new tunnel. Both objects are elements of the Olympic construction programme.

The defence and relatives of Gitinmagomed Gadjimagomedov, a Dagestani journalist, kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) as a murder suspect, state that he is tortured and pressed towards pleading guilty; they also fear for his life.

On March 22, the political parties named "People's Forum", "Union of Traditionalists" and "Women's Party" decided to unite in Georgia and named their bloc as the "National Forum". According to Girguli Maghradze, leader of the "Women's Party", this name has already become a sort of a political brand.

The criminal investigation into the execution by militiamen in 2006 of pregnant Sapiyat Magomedova is deliberately protracted by the Investigatory Department of Dagestan. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Mamatkhan Baisultanov, father-in-law of the casualty and a resident of Khasavyurt.

Local residents state that blocks of flats built in 2008 in the 20-th section of Oktyabrsky district of Grozny have become outworn and are literally tumbling down in front of their very eyes.

Taiwanese company Yulon and "Derways" factory located in Cherkessk (Karachaevo-Cherkessia) are negotiating on assemblage of Luxgen cars on the base of "Derways" factory.

This morning the settlement of Gubden, Karabudakhkent district, was totally blocked by law enforcement officers, entry and departure from the settlement are under complete ban. A reporter of “Caucasian Knot” received this news from Gaji Khalilibragimov, resident of Stavropol, who is in the blocked settlement at the moment.

Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin submitted his annual report on the state of affairs in the sphere of human rights and freedoms to State Duma in which he subjected the methods of struggle against participants of paramilitary groups in Northern Caucasus to criticism.

Activists of the Azerbaijani oppositional forces support the actions of the international armed force aimed to enforce the Resolution of the UN Security Council on protection of the civilian population of Libya against attacks of the troops loyal to the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.

88 percent of children in Chechnya have no opportunity to attend kindergartens and nurseries due to acute shortage of such institutions.

Pyatimat Khashagulgova, the wife of Issa Khashagulgov, a suspect of committing a terror act in Vladikavkaz, kept in the Lefortovo SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Moscow and charged of illegal arms possession and participation in illegal armed formations (IAFs), complaints that she is not allowed to see her husband for six months already.

Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the oppositional "Heritage" Party, who went on hunger strike a week ago in Armenia, is going to continue his protest action, aimed at promoting the freedom principles as long as his health permits. He has stated it today at a press conference organized under the open sky in Freedom Square in Yerevan.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, after introduction of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the Elbrus District region of the republic, tourism facilities in the Elbrus area are idling, namely, more than 30 private hotels and ministerial recreation bases and ski resorts. The losses of entrepreneurs are already in hundreds of millions roubles.