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Oleg Orlov, a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*, was detained in Moscow and charged with an offense under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

An appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to ensure the safety of residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, up to an increase in the peacemaking contingent, was signed by 19 activists.

Elkhan Aliev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been arrested for 30 days on charges of disobeying the police and petty hooliganism. Ali Kerimli, the PFPA leader, has stated that Aliev is being persecuted because of his active oppositional activities.

At the request of his employer, the court has softened the freedom restraint measure of Ramazan Dugiev, a participant in the 2019 Magas protests, Ramazan is one of the few sign language interpreters in Ingushetia; and his release from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) allows to hope for a reclassification of charges, the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

Daniel Kurakin, a Volgograd activist, has gone on a protest hunger strike after being arrested under the article of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

The natural gas has begun arriving to more than half of Nagorno-Karabakh residents. Amid the cold weather, the outage lasted for 11 days due to an accident on the gas pipeline, Artak Beglaryan, the State Minister of the unrecognized republic, has announced.

The Maykop City Court has fined a local resident by 50,000 roubles after finding him guilty of posting data in social networks that discredited the Russian Armed Forces.

The residents of Batumi from among those, who have no housing, have held a protest action and demanded from the officials to transfer apartments in nine high-rise buildings into their ownership.

The Georgian opposition has offered to listen to the speech of the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, at a parliamentary session, but the ruling "Georgian Dream-Democratic Movement" Party refused to consider this offer. Shalva Papuashvili, the Speaker, has motivated the refusal by asserting fact that the opposition wants to destabilize the situation in the country.

Alipat Sultanbegova, who was recently set free after her 20-day arrest for participating in an action against the special operation in Ukraine, has been detained again. This time, for her posts in social networks, one of which, as law enforcers assert, discredits the Russian Armed Forces, and the other incites hatred towards law enforcers.

Workers have finalized the repair of the section of the Shushi-Zariflu gas pipeline located in the territory controlled by Azerbaijan; the gas began arriving at the receiving station of the gas supplying organization of Nagorno-Karabakh, the authorities of the unrecognized republic have informed.

After a Krasnodar citizen spat on the letter Z depicted on the banner, law enforcers accused the man of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. The detainee is a 32-year-old resident of Krasnodar.

A cameraman and journalists of the "Mtavari Arkhi" TV Channel were attacked in Zugdidi while trying to film a report; and a film crew of the "Formula" TV Channel was beaten up in Tbilisi.

Eight Armenian civilian nationals have perished in Ukraine since the start of the special military operation; and three military servicemen were killed during the hostilities. About 4000 refugees have come from Ukraine to Armenia.

A company commander, Sakhib Turabov, a native of the Tabasaran District of Dagestan, was buried on March 18 in his native village. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, the deaths of at least 33 natives of Dagestan have become known.

Thirty-seven refugees from the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics have gone by train from Sukhumi to the Rostov Region, from there they will be taken home, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Abkhazia reports today.

In case if the supplies of foreign medicines for the treatment of diabetes mellitus, oncological and urological diseases are suspended, the medicines can be replaced with domestic analogues, specialists interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” assure.

Vartan Kochyan, accused of murdering court marshals in Sochi, died in a SIZO (pre-trial prison), his advocate Alexander Burnaev reports today.

Charges have been brought against four policemen who, under threat of beatings, forced a woman from Makhachkala to confess to drug possession, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

The ban on sending and receiving flights to and from the airports in six cities in Southern Russia, including Krasnodar, Stavropol and Rostov-on-Don, has been extended until March 26.