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Doku (Dokku) Umarov is dead, and Ali Abu-Mukhammad is a new leader of the "Imarat Kavkaz", says a statement released today by one of the websites that supports the North-Caucasian militants.

Today, at a session of the Moscow City Court (MCC), where the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", is considered, a defence witness Maxim Chervonya Ogly has renounced his evidence given at the preliminary investigation.

When considering the issue who might order to assassinate Saigidpasha Umakhanov, Mayor of the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt, experts identify several versions, including those related to inter-clan fighting in Dagestan, militants' revenge and struggle for power in the city, where a large number of Chechens live.

On February 28, Askhab Murtazaliev, a resident of the Cossack village of Grebenskaya of the Shelkovskoy District of Chechnya, was kidnapped. Since that time, his relatives cannot reveal his whereabouts. This was reported on March 17 by Sudan Murtazalieva, the mother of the kidnapped man.

This week, Chechnya resumes compensation payments to victims of political repressions suspended in 2011, and they will be completed till the end of this March. In total, the lists of beneficiaries of the compensations included more than 95,000 people.

Servicemen of the engineering-sapper units of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) have started a new phase of clearing the territory of Chechnya of mines, bombs and other explosive devices, said a source from the Chechen Military Commandant. The militaries plan to clean up about 8000 hectares.

The Chief Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has instituted a criminal case against citizens of Ukraine, members of the UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian People's Self-Defence), who are suspected of forming an armed grouping (a criminal gang) for the purpose of attacking citizens.

On March 12, in Grozny, a group of residents of Chechnya, whose relatives were kidnapped and disappeared during the period of hostilities, received their genetic passports. In the coming months, similar genetic passport will be issued to other 400 persons. This was reported by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

In Prague, the closing ceremony of one of the major documentary film festivals on human rights "One World" took place. Russia was presented by a documentary about a Chechen guy "Zelim's Confessions".

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has seen similarities with the armed conflict in Chechnya in the messages arriving from the Crimea about detentions and disappearances of journalists, activists, and Ukrainian militaries.