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Today, Rasul Magomedov, a resident of Balakhani village, Untsukul District, a teacher of the local secondary school and a member of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", has stated that he was kept till late at night by militiamen in one of the rooms of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan without any explanations.

As a result of a special operation conducted by FSB agents in Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, one of militants' leaders - Said Buryatskiy (initial name - Alexander Tikhomirov) - was killed. Several sources in power agencies have reported about it today.

The situation with the Yazidis and Kurmanches, living in the Krasnodar Territory, who were long refused by local authorities of any documents, is gradually becoming better. By today, only no more than 20 percent of them still have Soviet documents, and this figure goes down step by step. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from the interview he took from Igor Kuznetsov, associate professor of the division of archaeology, ethnology of ancient and medieval history of the Kuban State University and one of the founders of the Centre of Caucasian-Pontic Studies.

The Spiritual Department of Moslems (SDM) of North Ossetia has expressed its indignation with the arrest of Fatima Bagaeva, who, under official data, was detained on February 25 at the Chermen post with elements of explosives on her. The Department notes that the circumstances of her detention raise many questions.

Many residents of South Ossetia complain that they received no compensations, due to them under the decision made after Russia had recognized independence of South Ossetia. The compensations were intended to the victims of the warfare in August 2008. Many of those who received the money assure that it was enough to reimburse only a small part of damage.

The criminal case about the attack committed on February 27 on human rights activist Vadim Karastelyov, advocate of ex-militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy, was transferred to the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) for the Krasnodar Territory.

Because of the explosion in a mine in the city of Tkibuli, Western Georgia, March 4 is announced a national mourning day.

Today, the Tskhinvali hall of judicial sessions hosted the hearing of the case of Fatima Margieva, a teacher of the South-Ossetian State University, accused of illegal purchase and keeping of firearms and explosives.

Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, has offered to make mandatory fingerprinting and DNA analysis of all the people living in the territory of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Today, the case dealing with the attack on Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, has received a new development after Akhilgov had addressed the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Nazran with an application asking to attract oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev as an accused person of the recent attack on him.

Rizvan Elbiev, a native of Chechnya, is exposed to mockeries at Corrective Colony No. 4, located in Vyazniki, Vladimir Region. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by his sister - Saikhat Elmurzaeva, who lives in Ingushetia.

According to the information of the General Consulate of the Russian Federation in the city of Brno and the Czech authorities, the issue of the stay of six Russian tourists in the country will be positively resolved within a couple of hours. Murat Temirov, official spokesman of the Pyatigorsk Linguistic University told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On March 2, in Abkhazia, at a meeting in Gali, the working group on prevention of and reaction to incidents in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflicts zone, no agreement was reached on any point. This was reported by Levan Tevzaya, who represents the government of the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic in exile, recognized by Tbilisi. Delegates from Abkhazia, Russia, Georgia UN and EU took part in the meeting.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has established numerous facts of deliberate overpricing of medicinal goods by medical establishments and drugstores of the republic. Nine officials are brought to administrative responsibility.

On March 1-14, the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre in Moscow holds a photo exhibition by Yuri Ivaschenko entitled "The Eradicated", presenting a series of documentary photos about two nationalities living in the south of Russia - Yazidis and Batumi Kurds-Kurmanches.

In Sochi, by Olympiad-2014, every interested person can learn English free of charge. This was announced at today's press conference by Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov.

Today, President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov has signed the Decree "On Structure of Executive Power of the Republic Dagestan", which transforms a number of ministries and liquidated some bodies of the republic's executive power.

Citizen of Georgia Demur Gogokhiya, who served his term in the Dranda Prison in Abkhazia, died from sharp kidney insufficiency, not from beatings. This was stated today to journalists in Sukhumi by Guram Shoua, chief physician of the Agudzeri Hospital, who made his comments on the information from the Georgian party about Gogokhiya's violent death.

In Dagestan, on March 1, the day of passing a verdict by the republic's Supreme Court on the murder case of Magomedhabib Umakhanov - nephew of the Mayor of Khasavyurt Saigidpasha Umakhanov - the jury was disbanded, because jurymen had contacts with advocates.

Magomed Shamilov, chairman of the independent trade union of law-enforcement bodies and prosecutors, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the head of the militia of public safety of the Sovietskiy ROVD of Makhachkala had fined him for an administrative offence.