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Nine residents of Ishimli district of Azerbaijan held up their hunger strike they started on March, 10, demanding fair compensation for the aftermath of the flood of 2010 in the Kura and Araz rivers.

On March, 19, single-person pickets against occupation of the children’s centers and deforestation passed off in Sochi. The participants of the actions declare that plans of construction of multilevel parking lots are a threat to the green belt and children’s centers of the city. Officials of Mayor’s office assure that the development is going within legal boundaries.

Starting from March 19, Azerbaijan began the celebration of Nowruz Bayram the holiday of spring and New Year. On that occasion, Baku organized celebrations.

In Dagestan, a protest action, during which relatives of the persons killed in a fight in Kizlyar blocked the federal highway "Rostov-Baku", continued during four hours.

At the trial on the case of the armed attack on Nalchik in October 2005, held at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, a new lawyer has been appointed for defendants Zaur Tokhov and Ruslan Amshukov.

Victor Dvorakovskiy accused of preparing a terror act and of extremism, admits his guilt only partially. This was announced today in Stavropol by his lawyer Vadim Lobanov. Vladimir Skirko, the figurant in the Dvorakovskiy's case, pleaded guilty in full.

In Dagestan, mother of a beaten schoolboy demands to institute criminal proceedings against pupils, who beat him, and argues that the police department refuses to initiate criminal case on the incident.

Today, in Astrakhan, four other persons joined the indefinite hunger strike to protest against the results of the election held on March 4, 2012.

In Krasnodar, 65 facilities of uncontrolled settlement were revealed, following the inspection results. The facilities are to be demolished in accordance with the court's decision. Advertising of uncontrolled settlement facilities is being dismantled from city streets and transportation, the press service of the Mayoralty reports.

Builders of the Turkish companies "Penta" and "Bora Inshaat", which have large wage arrears, will appeal to the Office of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Grozny, where, on March 21, the meeting with residents of Chechnya on labour relations is to be held.

Relatives of Abdurakhman Djakaev, accused of illegal possession of weapons, claim that he is subjected to periodical beatings by law enforcement agents. The policemen themselves deny all allegations and intend to criminate Sapiyat Magomedova, the detainee's lawyer, of slander.

The court found two participants of mass fight in North Ossetia, in which student Kuanch Guliev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, was beaten and later died, guilty and sentenced them to 7 and 8 years of imprisonment.

Starting from March 18, units of the Armed Forces of Armenia violated the ceasefire. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD). The MoD of Nagorno-Karabakh claims that during the period of March 10-17, it registered about 350 cases of violation of the ceasefire by Azerbaijan.

Appointment of the second round of parliamentary elections in Abkhazia at majority of electoral precincts; sentencing the person accused of committing terror ac in Stavropol; hunger strike of supporters of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party in Astrakhan; dismissal of the Prosecutor of the Rostov Region for violation of oath; protest actions in defence of Yerevan park, look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 12-18, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".