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In Chechnya, local residents are under pressure to vote with the aim to raise the voter turnout on the election day; while employees of state institutions were obliged to be present at polling stations throughout the whole day on March 4, local residents assert.

On February 28, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Russia should pay 134,000 euros to relatives of two young men, one of whom was kidnapped and another one was killed in Chechnya.

Today, the Interregional Public Organization "Committee against Torture" reported on re-opening of the criminal case on the beating of Alikhan Akhmedov by Chechen OMON (riot police) fighters.

Dmitry Pavluchenkov, ex-Chief of Operative-search department of Chief Directorate of Interior Affairs of Moscow, who entered into collaboration with the investigation evidenced that Ahmed Zakaev and Boris Berezovsky could have been paymasters of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "Novaya Gazeta", "Commersant" newspaper reports today. Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) neither confirmed nor disproved this information.

The leader of Chechnya dismissed Sultan Dudaev, the head of the Chechen Construction Office (CCO), from his position. The reason for dismissal of the top-ranking officer was in systematic failure to pay wages to workers of the organization. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by the Office of the Chechen leader and the Government of the republic.

The City Council of Milan decided to immortalize the memory of Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist from the "Novaya Gazeta". It was decided to name one of the streets after her.

Protest hunger strike in Lermontov, Stavropol Territory; attempt on President of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab; mass brawl with fatal outcome in the Astrakhan Region; events related to the 68th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Chechens and Ingushes; statement of Armenian performers about possible boycott of "Eurovision-2012" in Baku, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of February 20-26, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has confirmed that jointly with Russian special services they had disrupted plans of terrorists to prepare an attempt on Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

At least two persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in the period from February 20 to February 26: one person was killed and one wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", based on their own materials and information from other public sources.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Chechen Republic denies reports of disproportionate use of force at dispersal in Grozny of the rally of builders who had worked for Turkish construction companies.

Today in Grozny, near the central mosque, women and men, who had worked for the Turkish construction companies "Penta" and "Bora Inshaat" and who were not paid their wages, held a rally with a demand to the authorities to address their problems. In total, by different estimates, from 250 to 400 people took part in the action.

In the years of Stalin's repressions almost all the nations had suffered, said Oleg Kalmykov, a scientific researcher at the State GULAG Museum. Visingirey Gagiev, President of the Ingush National and Cultural Autonomy of Moscow, agrees with him and adds that the deportation of Chechens and Ingushes was not the first one in the history of the Soviet Union; however, the operation "Chechevitsa" (Lentils) in 1944 to evict the Vainakhs was the largest. This was stated at the Conference "68th Anniversary of Deportation of Ingush People to Kazakhstan and Middle Asia".

Employees of the enterprise “Chechenvodocanal” in Grozny have not received their salary for already four months. A representative of the management of the enterprise states that the persons responsible for the present situation are defaulters on housing and communal services.

Zelimkhan Mazaev, who was put on the search list by law enforcers of the UAE on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the battalion "Vostok", has left the Sklifosovsky Emergency Care Research Institute, where he was put after his injury.