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Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov suggested to restrict exit from the territory of the country for the officials who have access to secret information.

No less than eight persons got injured in an armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from March, 25, till March, 31, 2013. Four out of them perished and three were wounded. This is the total of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

More than 12,000 entrepreneurs of Chechnya stopped operation, claiming a sharp increase in insurance premiums as the main reason.

Marina Nasirova, a resident of Ingushetia and a Chechen by her origin, said she was beaten because of her nationality.

Today Moscow city court heard the evidence of employees of the notary's office near which ex-colonel Yuri Budanov was killed.

On March 27, the Russia's Supreme Court upheld the verdict on the case dealing with preparation to blow up the high-speed passenger train "Sapsan", undertaken in the summer of 2011, dismissing the cassation complaint lodged by the four convicts sentenced to prison terms from 15 to 18 years.

The court dismissed a motion entered by the attorneys of Yusup Temerkhanov accused of ex-colonel Yuri Budanov’s murder to exclude some evidence from the materials of the criminal case.

During the week from March 18 to March 24, 2013, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus affected at least 22 people; of them, eight persons were killed and 14 more wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Election of Anapa Mayor; three-day-long special operation near Makhachkala; reconsideration by court in Moscow of Budanov's murder case; end of receiving nominees from political forces of Armenia for the Board of Elders of Yerevan; dismissal by court in Stavropol of the lawsuit against the ban on hijabs in schools; adoption of law on possible cancellation by regions of direct elections of governors, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 18-24, 2013, prepared by the "CaucasianKnot".

About 42 million roubles have been allotted in the budget of Ingushetia as compensations for rental of housing for displaced residents of Chechnya.

Over the past seven months, specialists have detected in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) more than 530 illegal dumps with a total area of over 300 hectares. The information was announced at the sitting of the Council on Local Self-Government in the NCFD, held in Nalchik on March 19. Alexander Khloponin, the presidential envoy for the NCFD, has treated the situation as critical.

Today, the advocates of Yusuf Temerkhanov, a native of Chechnya, accused of killing the former Colonel Yuri Budanov, moved a motion to exclude a number of proofs from the case files, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The "Terek" FC from Grozny has been fined by 200,000 roubles and will hold one match on the neutral pitch, because of the incident in its match against "Rubin", said Arthur Grigoryants, the chairman of the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union.

Today, a new trial on the murder of the former Colonel Yuri Budanov was launched at the Moscow City Court (MCC).

The "Terek" Football Club (FC) can be fined and punished by match without spectators for publicly insulting the referee Michail Vilkov from Nizhny Novgorod during the match with the "Rubin" FC from Kazan.