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The Caucasus is in the "wait condition", since nobody knows precisely there, what policy will be pursued by the country and what the "card deal" will be after Olympiad-2014. This was stated by Aneta Gadieva, a member of the Association of victims of terror acts named "Mothers of Beslan".

After interference of the commission of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Russian Federation, the criminal case about beating journalists in Astrakhan during the elections on October 11, 2009 by securities of the regional duma deputy was returned to additional check.

Today in Vladikavkaz, the public organization of veterans of power agencies of North Ossetia "Law Is Above Power" will organize a rally in protest against arbitrariness of "high Ossetian corrupt officials."

On March 24, Dick Marti, Rapporteur of the PACE on Human Rights in Northern Caucasus, met activists of public organizations of Ingushetia, President Yunus-Bek Evkurov and heads of power agencies. In his voyage, Mr Marti was accompanied by Gunter Schirmer, secretary of the delegation and secretary on legal issues and human rights of the PACE, Ilyas Umakhanov, member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Valery Levitskiy, deputy head of the office of international cooperation of the State Duma, and Victor Solodov, officer of the MIA of the Russian Federation.

A board of jurymen of the Moscow City Court has recognized Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy, heads of a grouping of nationalists, guilty of a murder attempt.

Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy, who earlier poured criticism on high-ranking MIA officers, is not going to apologize to militia bosses of Novorossisk and is going to place new exposing video materials in the Internet.

The Arbitration Court of North Ossetia has ruled that the "Electrozink" metallurgy factory in Vladikavkaz shall improve its sanitary-protective zone. Until then, according to the verdict of Judge Marina Kopteva, the factory is suspended.

Murders of human right activists Natalia Estemirova and Zarema Sadulayeva were committed with the aim to create the opinion in the society that Chechnya is far from order; and people are still kidnapped and murdered here. This was stated today in Gudermes by President Ramzan Kadyrov in the course of his meeting with Dick Marti, Rapporteur of the PACE.

Under the latest data, Anzor Astemirov, leader of the armed underground of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was liquidated on March 24, was accompanied by an accomplice who was wounded but managed to abscond from power agents.

The NATO considers the TV report about the alleged Russia's aggression against Georgia put on air by the Georgian TV Company "Imedi" as "unwise" and "useless". This was stated on March 24 by James Appathurai, official spokesman of the Alliance. In its turn, the US reconnaissance believes that provocations like this "special report" can kindle a real conflict in the Caucasus.

None of the schools in the Leningor District of South Ossetia (Georgia calls it the Akhalgori District) was ruined; while the Georgian party is again trying to destabilize the situation in the region. This was stated by Alexander Baratashvili, deputy head of the Leningor District, in his comments on the allegations moved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia that Russian militaries had destroyed school No. 3 with the aim to build an apartment house for militaries instead.

The Amnesty International (AI) has addressed the authorities of Azerbaijan in the context of threats received by the family of convicted journalist, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan" Einullah Fatullaev.

According to Russian political scientist Sergey Markedonov, the problems of the Caucasus are political, not economic, but Alexander Khloponin, plenipotentiary of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), should be "loaded" with the political functional, which is "under-loaded" in him. In the opinion of Polish analyst Wojciech G?recki, creation of the NCFD is a manifestation display of a new Moscow's tactics for Northern Caucasus.

Today, the Coordination Board of Adyg NGOs of Kabardino-Balkaria has disseminated a statement treating the scientific conference held in Tbilisi on Circassians' genocide as a "scandal" arranged by Georgian leaders with the aim "to draw attention of international public."

As reported by the US Department of Justice, the States have delivered three former inmates of the prison located in the Guantanamo military base. The prisoners whose names are not disclosed were sent to Georgia yesterday, on March 23. Some of Georgian politicians and experts were positive towards this delivery.

The militants liquidated in a special operation in Ingushetia were members of the "Surkhakhi bandit grouping", which planned to commit a series of terror acts in the territory of the republic. This was reported by the PR group of the Department of the FSB for Ingushetia.

The high water is stronger in the Volgograd Region; already 12 settlements are in the flooding zone. As reported by the regional branch of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), 469 houses were damaged, and hundreds of residents were evacuated.

At the court session on March 23 dealing with the militants' attack of on power agencies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005, the judge announced the ruling about extension of defendants' custody by three more months. The court argued that all of them are accused of grave and especially grave crimes as members of an organized group. Also, in the course of the session, defendants blamed the court of being biased, and one of them, Anzor Mashukov, petitioned for challenging the judges.

On March 23, the court of the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, announced a verdict on the criminal case of a rural teacher Valentina Neumyvakina, accused of driving a senior pupil to suicide. She was sentenced to 1 year of deprivation of freedom.

On March 23, the Board of Judges of Ingushetia disseminated its statement passed back on February 12 asserting that President of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov interfered with the work of judges demanding to pass verdicts to his liking. The document was sent to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev.