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The Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravichyus, author of the documentary "Barzakh" telling about disappearances and abductions in Chechnya, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about how his film was made.

On February 26, the Moscow Concert Hall "Izmailovskiy" hosted a traditional party of the first-year student, organized by the foundation for promotion of Karachay-Balkar youth named "Elbrusoid". One of the main topics raised by esteemed guests of the event in their addresses to former entrees was the behaviour of Caucasian youth in Moscow.

Under the order of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Republic will reconsider the criminal verdicts against a group of convicts serving their terms in the prison of "Chernokozovo", located in northern Chechnya. Mr Kadyrov made the decision after visiting the prison a few weeks ago.

During February 21-27, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 12 lives. At least 9 persons were injured during this period. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Tamara Magmadova, mother of Apti Magmadov and Aishat Magmadova, who are kept in the "Lefortovo" FSB's pre-trial prison, charged of recruiting Egle Kusaite, a citizen of Lithuania, to commit terror acts in Russia, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her children are exposed to physical and psychological pressure and left without medical care.

At the trial on the case "Kadyrov vs. Orlov", which continued on March 3 in the Khamovniki District Court of Moscow, the defendant's advocate Genry Reznik would not agree to announcement at the trial of the evidences of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov without the personal presence of the claimant.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has upheld a lawsuit of Amnat Khambulatova, a resident of Chechnya, whose son died in a militia station, and ruled that the Russian authorities should pay the monetary compensation of about 33,500 euros to her.

The international NGO named "Lions Clubs", which is regularly providing assistance to victims of the Beslan terror act, has sent another shipment to North Ossetia - three boxes of school supplies for Beslan children.

The leader of the organization named "Chornye Yastreby" (Black Hawks), which positions itself as an anti-Wahhabite one, has stated that militants in Kabardino-Balkaria are just hiding behind religious slogans and kill civilians. Moreover, he said that the members of his organization will act against militants by using the latter's methods.

The activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" detained in the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory, "are on a hunger strike against the militia and judicial arbitrariness for the second day in the detention facility of the Tuapse UVD (District Interior Department)," their colleagues report.

The sister of Magomed Gaziev, born in 1992, a resident of the village of Shamkhal-Station, Kirov District of Makhachkala, who was kidnapped on March 1 by unidentified persons, asks for help in searching her brother and to protect her family from harassment of law enforcers.

Rashid Nurgaliev, head of the Russian MIA, has overturned his order to decorate Sergey Kucheruk, former head of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Krasnodar Territory, who was sacked after the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory.

A picket is on at the building of the Regional Court in Vilnius with a demand of an open trial of Egle Kusaite, a citizen of Lithuania, accused of preparing terror act in Russia; all kinds of people came to take part in the action.

As reported by the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of South Ossetia, the republic has repeatedly submitted applications of its residents affected by the war in August 2008 to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Zamin Gadji, a journalist of opposition media of Azerbaijan, has become one of the six laureates of the 2011 Prize "Free Press of Eastern Europe" named after Gerd Bucerius and awarded by the German Foundation "Zeit-Stiftung" and the Norwegian Foundation "Free Speech".

Charges of terrorism have been presented to three residents of Ingushetia - the brother, sister and fellow villager of the suicide bomber at the "Domodedovo" Airport, who are believed to be accomplices.

The simultaneous attack on several power objects in Nalchik on February 25 reminded the attack on the city undertaken on October 13, 2005. But politicians and observers believe that any repetition of the events that took place six years ago is now impossible; they treat the new attack to be a demonstrative action. Besides, it is believed that militants could make this take the attack deliberately, in order to distract the attention of law enforcers from the places where the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was declared.

On February 28, the Chechen blogger "Timur Stigal" complained to the Twitter microblog of President Dmitry Medvedev on the bribes in the amount of 300,000 US dollars, allegedly extorted by the retinue of Vladislav Surkov for arranging a meeting with him.

Liberation of Georgian seamen by Somalia pirates is postponed by ten days, said Sergo Devadze, father of one of the sailors.

The problems of Muslims were discussed in the course of the working meeting within the cycle of the public debates "Peace to the Caucasus". The meeting with townspeople of the working group of the Public Chamber of Russia on development of social dialogue and civil society institutions in the Caucasus was held in the city of Kizlyar on February 27.