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Today, Magomedtaga Nurulaev, 30, a resident of Mutsalaul village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, has stated that he was tortured and robbed by power agents.

Experts explain the coloured snow that fell on March 9 in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories by the presence of dust, sand and clay particles in precipitations brought by the wind from Northern Africa, and state that the deposits are harmless.

The political crisis in Armenia that stemmed from essential violations in the course of the 2008 presidential election is not over, and the atmosphere in the country continues to remain tense. This was stated in the report of the United States' Department of State (DoS) published on March 11.

At night on Saturday, March 13, the Dagestan city of Buinaksk suffered from a powerful landslip. Rescuers evacuated 82 persons, including 26 children, the local Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports.

The international human rights organizations "Committee to Protection Journalists", Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have made statements on the refusal of the Baku Appeal Court to cancel the verdict to bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, convicted to 2 and 2.5 years of imprisonment respectively.

On March 11, Hilary Clinton, State Secretary of the USA, presented another regular report on the situation in the sphere of human rights in the world. The document published in the official website of the US Department of State (DoS), dedicates 73 pages to criticism of the situation with human rights in Russia.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CE) has reminded the government of Armenia about the need to enforce the decision of the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on the "A1+" TV Company. According to the verdict, Armenia should give chance to the Company to take part in the tender for broadcasting frequencies and for its return on air.

Schools teachers of several districts of the Chechen Republic see no salaries for two months already. The issue was discussed on March 11 in Grozny at a sitting with participation of the head of the Ministry of Education, city and regional departments of education and school directors. The authorities promise to solve the problem in the near future.

On March 11, Federal Judge of the Sovietskiy District of Makhachkala Gasankadi Dzhunaidiev rejected the application lodged by Natalia Krainova, a journalist of the local weekly "Novoe Delo" (New Business), who asked to revise the verdict of April 22, 2009, prescribing her to pay, together with her colleague Svetlana Anokhina, 24,000 roubles in equal shares to Zaur Gaziev, a journalist of the newspaper "Free Republic".

In Dagestan, experts have established the type and power of the bomb that was triggered in the evening on March 11 on the railway in Makhachkala. The power of the bomb was 2 kilos of trotyl equivalent.

Today, another hearing was held in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, on the criminal case initiated against journalists of the local weekly "Chernovik", accused of kindling national, racial and religious enmity.