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Rebels encircled a group of federal forces in the mountains of the Itum-Kali district, Chechnya. "As the Russian soldiers saw the despair of the situation, they decided to surrender," reported Chechen separatists' website.

Nikolay Khramov thinks the authorities are trying to limit citizens' constitutional right to freedom of assembly, "basing on indistinct by-laws, which have become old, and their own high-handedness."

Sergey Abramov, 32, an official of the Russian Accounts Chamber has been appointed to replace Anatoly Popov.

Elena Batenkova, a member of the Feedback group and the Committee for Antiwar Actions, is a participant in the picket on Pushkinskaya Square, protesting against the war in Chechnya and appealing to stop the conflict their through negotiations.

The body of Ruslan (Khamzat) Gelayev, a notorious Chechen commander, has not been given to his relatives so far. The agreement that the relatives were allowed to take his body was reached a week ago, one of them said in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

The high turnout at the polling stations in the Chechen Republic, despite the almost complete absence of voters, was due to election commission employees casting ballots they had filled in beforehand. This was privately confirmed by workers at the voting sites.

The students demanded the release of the Medical College dental student who, according to them, had been taken just from the school by unknown armed men on March 11.

Abu al-Walid, a notorious Chechen field commander of Arab origin, announced that Russia was threatened with a new series of terrorist acts if that one who would be elected new president advocated the war in Chechnya.

The police detained Yevgeny Frumkin, Elena Batenkova, and Mikhail Kriger, who protested against the war in Chechnya. They were conveyed to the Tverskoye police department.

On the night of March 11, Khavani Usmanova, a 51-year-old local, was detained by Russian security agents in the course of "address purges" in Gudermes.

The situation in the republic is still "extremely difficult", said the head of the delegation, Rudolf Bindig.

Twelve people who have been working in the field of peacemaking for a long time and have been advocating nonviolent approaches to the resolution of the Chechen conflict nominated for the prize.

The meeting "For Russia Without Putin" was held on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on March 10.

Another deadline for dismantling the Sputnik refugee camp in Ingushetia expired on March 10; but unsurprisingly, only 20 families left the camp.

An assassination attempt on the Chechen Deputy Interior Minister Sultan Saduyev and Deputy Justice Minister Mussa Yevsultanov was made in Grozny.