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Cossacks of the Terek Cossack Army are invited to maintain order during the counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in a number of dwelling settlements of North Ossetia.

Law enforcers are conducting a major special operation in a forest near the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan, a local resident told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The four suspected militants killed today in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have been identified. According to the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of the Russian Federation, they were engaged in supplying members of the armed underground with arms and ammunition; and were involved in extorting money from businessmen. Eight suspected militants were also detained in the course of today's special operation.

Three out of four figurants in the murder case of Fral Shebzukhov, an advisor of the former head of Karachay-Cherkessia, convicted by the Supreme Court of the republic to various terms of imprisonment, have appealed against their verdict.

The investigation of a criminal case against four senior officials of the Krymsk District, accused of negligence that entailed deaths during the flood in July 2012, is over. The case has been sent to the prosecutor's office for approval of the indictment.

After Renat Temrezov was shot dead by a policeman, the village of Chapaevskoe, Karachay-Cherkessia, hosted a protest action that was attended by about 400 people, the villagers report. After the funeral, a meeting took place of local residents with the district administration; and there no "spontaneous" sentiments in the village, according to Marat Botashev, the head of the rural settlement.

The folk healer, who was killed on March 10 in Dagestan, was an invalid, engaged in making amulets. A special operative plan was introduced in the republic with the aim to find the offender.

A Baku court has arrested three activists of the Nida, who are accused of inciting violence and civil disobedience, possession of narcotics and explosives.

Murders of a federal judge, a teacher and a teacher and folk healer in Dagestan; announcement by the Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation of essential overrating of Olympic objects in Sochi; permit to 40 Georgian producers of mineral water, wine and cognac to enter the Russian market; granting political asylum in Finland to Polina Zherebtsova, author of the book about war in Chechnya; presentation of the study "What people think about Stalin in Russia and Transcaucasia", dated to 60years after deathof Joseph Stalin, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 4-10, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The school teacher of the Russian language in the village of Kurakh, Dagestan, was found dead in her house.

According to the spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the republic, the basic version of the murder of a judge, committed in the evening on March 9 in Dagestan, has to do with his service activities.

Vladimir Bedukadze, the author of the video showing acts of torture applied to inmates of a Georgian prison, has announced a hunger strike demanding a fair trial of his case by the court, which runs from March 4 in the closed regime.

In the evening on March 7, in the village of Mingrelskaya, the Abinsk District of the Krasnodar Territory, an armed conflict burst out, resulting in the death of the village ataman Sergey Osminin, and another Cossack injured his leg, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

At least 65 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in February 2013; of them, 37 persons perished, and 28 more were wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Absalitdin Murzaev, the head of the Board of Elders of the Kumyk People, who was beaten on March 3 in Dagestan, is sure that crime can be solved quickly only given the want of local authorities.