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As confirmed today by Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Russian FSB, among the suspected militants killed in the course of the special operation on March 3 in Ingushetia, one of their leaders known as Said Buryatskiy has been identified.

On Friday, March 5, the office of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety of reporters (IRFS) hosted a meeting of journalists with families of arrested journalists Einullah Fatullaev and Ganimat Zakhidov, and of bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli.

The present stage of negotiations on normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations has the character of imitation. As stated by Professor of the Yerevan State University David Ovannisyan on March 5 at the roundtable "Dialogue Armenia-Turkey: Relation Recovery Process", the parties use any occasion to push negotiations into the track of deal-making and gambling.

As reported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Armenia, the legislative body of the Autonomous Community Catalonia has unanimously voted for recognition of Armenians' genocide in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire.

The religious website "Way of Truth" launched last year by the republic's Centre of Spiritual and Moral Enlightenment was exposed to hackers' attack. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from a source from the Chechen Muftiyat.

After the visit on March 5 to Moscow of Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-speaker of the Georgian parliament and leader of the "Democratic Movement - United Georgia", activists of other oppositional parties - Labourites and Conservatives - have expressed their readiness to go to Moscow to establish relations.

Edward Nalbandyan, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, has stated that adoption by the International Committee of the House of Representatives of US Congress of the resolution on Armenians' genocide is an indication of the commitment of American people to universal values. Turkey in reply to the resolution recalled its ambassador from Washington.

Two private houses in the special operation zone in Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, had been mined with non-extractable mines, as reported by a source in power agencies. According to his story, these buildings will be blown up by sappers. The body of supposed Said Buryatskiy, found after examination of the operation venue, was already delivered to the Centre of Forensic-Medical Examination of the Ministry of Defence in Rostov-on-Don, where the genetic examination will be held to identify the casualty.

The situation with the freedom of mass media, operation of the law-enforcement system of Azerbaijan and situation with NGOs were the main topics of debates in the course of the visit to the country on March 1-5 of Thomas Hammarberg, High Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights.

In the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD), the forthcoming high water threatens to flood 731 dwelling settlements. This was stated on March 4 in Stavropol at the session of the Commission for Emergencies and Fire Safety.

Prior to start litigation on the case of Anastasia Denisova, head of the public organization "ETnIKA", accused of using counterfeit software in her home and office computers, the equipment, which was confiscated at search, was subjected to examination. The Prosecutor's Office of Krasnodar entrusted the Inter-Regional Public Organization (IRPO) "Union of Criminalists" to make the examination.