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Inspectors report about solving resonant murders in Northern Caucasus; exchange of prisoners of was between Georgia and South Ossetia is in deadlocked; Chechnya celebrates Prophet Mohammed's birthday; human rights activists are beaten in the Kuban River area, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of February 22-28, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

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 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

The family of the assassinated owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" Magomed Evloev is unhappy with the decision of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia and drafts complaints to the SC of Russia and the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR).

In Novorossisk, the person who attacked human rights activist Vadim Karastelyov was detained not by local militiamen but by employees of the Federal Drug Control Service (known as "Gosnarkokontrol"), while the attacker was receiving instructions by a mobile phone. This was reported by Vadim's son - Alexei Karastelyov - to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

After the end of the active phase of the special operation conducted in Ekazhevo village, relatives of those murdered there insist that it was an extrajudicial execution.

March 3 was the 320th day after cancellation in the Chechen Republic of the longstanding counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime. From that moment on, the casualty rate as a result of the armed opposition of the underground against power agencies in Chechnya has reached 292 persons, in fact twice the figure of the same period prior to the CTO cancellation, when 154 persons were lost.

As reported on Tuesday by Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russia's ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office), a special division was set up at the regional department of the Committee for investigating kidnappings committed in Chechnya. The division will work in close interaction with relatives of kidnapped persons.