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At its closed meeting on March 24, the court of general jurisdiction of the administrative districts of Kentron and Nork-Marash decided to arrest Major-General Ovannes Tamamyan, former head of the Chief Department for Criminal Investigation of the Police of the Republic of Armenia, for the term of two months on charges of abuse of office.

The employee of the human rights organization "MASHR" Zurab Tsechoev is convinced that the pretext for the search of his house in the village of Troitskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, was in his participation in the protest rally in Nazran dedicated to the disappearance of Ilez Gorchkhanov.

The impartial investigation into the Beslan terror act; an urgent examination of children and the law on the status of victims of terror acts - these were the main topics discussed at the meeting of the victims of the Beslan terror act with Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Today in Yerevan, at the initiative of a number of public organizations, a tent was set up for Raffi Ovannisyan, Chairman of the "Heritage" Party, who continues his hunger strike. The policemen who stood nearby did not interfere.

On March 24, in the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, a soldier of Interior Troops of the Russian MIA mistakenly shelled a car with his colleague - an OMON (special militia) fighter - inside. The latter was hospitalized with a minor injury.

In the city of Nazran (Ingushetia), the Internet provider - the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "ITT" - has restored access to the Internet medium "Caucasian Knot".

The money was sent via the Japanese office of the International Red Cross. Besides, the Georgian authorities are still ready to send drinking water and a rescue to Japan.

In Georgia, the police have detained several oppositional activists who were holding a protest action in defence of prisoners' rights. Merab Chikashvili, an oppositional leader, and Giya Burdzhanadze, a member of the National Assembly, are among the detainees.

Today at night, in the Imereti Lowland of Sochi, in the territory of the "Rossiya" State Farm, in the area of the "Bolshevik" recreation base, a 40-meter-long metal fence was erected across the beach, local ecologists report.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) and Heidi Hautala, chair of the subcommittee on human rights of the European Parliament, express their concern about the beating and detention in Ingushetia of Magomed Khazbiev, a civil activist, and his two brothers, who were arrested on March 23 in Nazran shortly after dispersal of a spontaneous protest action against violent disappearances. The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov instructed his power agents to provide him with all the necessary information about the oppositionist's detention.

Militia is searching for four men who committed powerful explosions in a food store in the settlement of Malaya Areshevka, Kizlyar district of Dagestan, on March, 24, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

A MV HANNIBAL II tanker among whose crew there was one citizen of Georgia captured by Somali pirates has been released.

On March, 24, experts on the Caucasus in Moscow discussed the historic past of the Сherkessians and their today's problems at a conference "The Сherkessian question": historic memory, historiographic discourse, political strategies".

Uses of the services of close corporation "ITT" internet provider in Nazran (Ingushetia) have been out of access to online-media "Caucasian Knot" since March, 16. The provider's technical support staff cannot explain the reason.

The actors of the Olympic construction in Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, have committed themselves to restore the basin ecosystem of the Mzymta River, where sports-and-tourism facilities and roads are built.

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".