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Law enforcers of Vladikavkaz have detained a suspect who distributed false reports about mining through the Internet.

Three women-local residents have been detained in Chechnya on suspicion of committing major frauds with certificates on maternity capital. According to preliminary data, over 300 women became their victims, while the total amount of damage exceeds 100 million roubles.

In the evening of March, 17, a native of Northern Caucasus assaulted two young fans of "Spartak" football club with a knife, officials of law enforcement bodies of Moscow reported.

A captain of internal service, officer of Department of Federal Service of execution of punishments (FSEP) of Russia in Dagestan was murdered in Makhachkala, Press service of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

The investigation on the criminal proceedings started against Aslan Cherkesov is going on in a prejudged way. This was Sonya Cherkesova's statement at a meeting with journalists in Nalchik.

On March 16, the Department for Chechnya of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) released an appeal to members of illegal armed formations (IAFs). Militants are invited to lay down arms and return to peaceful life. Activists of local NGOs believe that the appeal contains direct threats against families of IAF members and express serious concern in this connection.

Night explosions in Ingushetia, in the neighbourhood of the town of Magas and the settlement of Ali-Yurt, which woke up the villagers of Ali-Yurt turned out to be connected with unknown criminals' assault upon the house of Bashir Gagiev, Chief of investigative isolation ward of Ingushetia.

Preliminary election outcomes in Southern Russia: opposition's complaints against satisfaction of election commissions; Manege Square in Moscow becomes again a "rendezvous" of nationalists; UN Security Council could see a dangerous terrorist in Dokku Umarov; protest actions in Azerbaijan again turn into clashes and arrests, - look these and other events in the review of the week of March 7-13, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

As reported by Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), in his speech at conference held in the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice in St Petersburg, the investigation will have to build its evidence base in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, reporter of the "Novaya Gazeta", on indirect evidences for lack of direct ones.

On March 15, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg made its decision on the case "Tsechoev versus Russia" and obliged the Russian authorities to pay compensation to the applicant Ruslan Tsechoev for the death of his brother in the amount of 15,000 euros, and awarded 2500 euros to representatives of the applicant for their legal work. The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", whose lawyers represented the suffered party, said that the ECtHR's decision was formal.

Information about planted bombs has arrived in all the courts of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria over the Internet. All the reports proved to be false.

As reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), Aslan Emkuzhev, who was assassinated at night on March 16 in Nalchik, had held his subversive and terrorist training in Lebanon and took part in warfare in the ranks of the radical Palestinian organization Fatah al-Islam.

No less than seven people were killed, eight wounded and two kidnapped in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus during the week from March, 7, till March, 13. This is the result of counting done by "Caucasian Knot" based upon its own data and information from other open sources.

Today, the Disciplinary Judicial Bench of the Krasnodar Territory reinstated two magistrate judges from the village of Kuschevskaya, who had been found guilty of links with the Tsapok's grouping.