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On March, 16, an action of protest against Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Erdogan's visit to Moscow passed off in Armenia near the Russian Embassy in Yerevan. The participants of the action demanded dissolution of the Moscow treaty signed between Turkey and Russia 90 years ago.

Opposition activists Arutyun Urutyan and Roman Mnatsakanyan have been released before term from prison in Armenia.

Release of 15 Georgian sailors who have been staying in Somali pirates' prison over six months was deferred until the end of March "for technical and organizational reasons", Sergo Devadze, one of the sailors' father, Manager of "Greenwich-21" company, informed.

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.

The information about Mikael Storsjo and his help to refugees from Chechnya, which appears in Russia, is often just repeating the words of Storsjo's opponents, said Kerkko Paananen, secretary of the human rights organization "Finnish-Russian Civil Forum". He believes that the information from people, who have close relations with Russian authorities, is quoted by opposition media in Russia, which is puzzling people in Finland.

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.

The newspaper "Armenian Time" has refused to implement the decision of the general jurisdiction court prescribing to publish a refutation and pay compensations to three members of the national parliament. On March 9, the edition filed an application to the Court of Appeal an appeal against the verdict of the court passed on February 7.

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.

Within the programme of humanitarian aid, aimed at neutralizing the Nubarashen land fill of toxic chemicals, the government of Brazil decided to transfer equipment worth over 80,000 US dollars to their Armenia counterpart as a gift.

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.

The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (known as "Rosprirodnadzor") believes that the connivance of the officials from the Committee for Environment Protection of the Rostov Region had seriously damaged the ecology of the region. The prosecutor's office is investigating the case against Grigory Skripka, head of the Committee, initiated under the articles of "abuse of power" and "excess of power".

Audronus Azhubalis, operating Chairman of OSCE and Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, called for democratic reforms in Azerbaijan. Azhubalis declared at a meeting with the leaders of political parties of the country on March, 14, that Azerbaijan had a great potential to become the closest partner for Europe.