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Investigators have announced they are searching for a person who is suspected of aiding terrorists and is involved in committing grave and especially grave crimes, including the terror act at the Domodedovo Airport in 2011.

On February 19, the Nalchik City Court sentenced Inna Blenaova, accused of helping militants, to five years of conditional imprisonment, thus taking into account the respective request of the commission for adaptation of former militants to punish Blenaova without deprivation of liberty.

Four persons have been detained on suspicion of organizing the explosion near the Djemikent GIBDD (traffic police) post, said a law enforcement source of Dagestan.

The pensioner Margarita Markelova was found guilty of organizing and holding an unauthorized rally on January 15 next to the Sochi Mayoralty. She was punished by a warning. The pensioner refused to plead guilty and intends to appeal against the judgement, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Vardges Gaspari, a supporter of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), is accused of insulting a policeman and a judge, as well as of hampering court sessions.

Today, in Grozny, power agents have detained three journalists, arguing that they were preparing an illegal report. On the same day, all the three were released.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended the arrest of four out of five defendants in the murder case of politician Boris Nemtsov until March 7. The arrest of the accused Tamerlan Eskerhanov was extended until March 8.

People affected by the terror act committed at the "Domodedovo" Airport intend to file multi-million-US-dollar lawsuits against former top-managers of the Airport, who are charged with providing services failing to meet safety requirements. This was reported by advocate Igor Trunov.

The searches took place in the houses of relatives of members of the terrorist grouping "Southern". Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) discovered by law enforcers were destroyed at the place, report sources from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan. Till present, the information has not been confirmed officially.

A preliminary session of the court in Baku, which is considering the appeal complaint lodged by journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov against his verdict, was held today behind closed doors. The court has rejected all the petitions, including the one demanding to release the journalist from custody.

In the village of Nyutyug, Suleiman-Stalsky District of Dagestan, near which an armed clash occurred on February 17, explosions were heard, said a local resident. According to his story, on the same day power agents conducted passport checks. Today, the village lives its normal life.

Inna Blenaova, a resident of Nalchik, who is accused of helping a militant, has lodged its application to the Commission for Adaptation of Former Militants. The members of the Commission have considered the application, and decided to ask the court to appoint a punishment, not related to deprivation of her liberty.

Suppression of the Salafi communities in the northern and central regions of Dagestan has contributed to concentration of radical Salafis in the southern part of Dagestan, and the recent armed incidents in the region are explained by the above fact. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Defenders of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, sentenced to death sentence for organizing the terror act during the marathon in Boston, have filed papers to withdraw from the trial. New advocates are offered to defend the convict.