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In Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), law enforcers have detained a militant, who was preparing a terror act with the use of a homemade bomb, the Russian FSB has reported today.

Rasambek Bekmurzaev, a native of Chechnya, has been fined for crime concealment, but was found innocent in killing of three law enforcers and involvement in the armed underground, the court has ruled today.

Ramazan Salamov, accused of participating in an illegal armed formation (IAF), who was on the international wanted list, has been extradited to Russia, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed today.

Law enforcers have found a hideout with pistols, grenades and ammunition in the vicinity of the village, located 19 kilometres from the border with Dagestan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan has reported today.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone have come under fire, including those stationed in three villages, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed today.

Khamzat Edelgiriev, the head of the Chechen Hunting Authority, a fellow villager of Ramzan Kadyrov, has posted a video message with threats addressed to critics of Kadyrov Senior. Residents of Chechnya understand that threats are mainly addressed to the blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov.

Residents of the Irkutsk Region have supported the action of solidarity with Ingush oppositionists, initiated by Saint Petersburg and Moscow activists. Picketers in the above three Russian cities demanded to stop persecuting activists in Ingushetia.

For several days, monks, pilgrims and tourists could not get to the Udabno Monastery located in the territory of the ancient Georgian cave complex "David Gareji", the road to which was blocked by Azerbaijani border guards. The conflict was settled after negotiations of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) of Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani special services are tapping the conversations of the journalist Sevindj Osmangyzy, the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) has stated after a record of her private conversation appeared on a pro-government TV channel. By breaking into the privacy of oppositional journalists, authorities are trying to silence them, the IRFS has stated.

Ingush officials and a well-known theologian have left for Egypt to negotiate the return of the arrested Ingush students to their homeland. The young people have been charged with extremism, espionage and links with "Islamic State"*, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has announced.

The US Department of State has banned Muslim Khuchiev, the Chairman of Chechen Government (Premier), to visit the USA, treating him involved in human rights violations.

The Strasbourg Court found no reason to award compensation to Levon Ter-Petrosyan under his complaint of house arrest during mass protests in March 2008.

Users of social networks reproached Khabib Nurmagomedov that he much more harshly criticized the actors and singers on tours in Dagestan than the law enforcers from the Moscow Region who were detained after beating a native of Dagestan.

The Ramzan Kadyrov's call to remove all checkpoints on the roads between the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) was rejected by Moscow because of the threat of terror acts and the law enforcers' distrust in the leader of Chechnya, believe experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The police detain activists on the basis of photo and video materials, and anyone who attended the rally in Magas can become a suspect, states human rights defender Tamirlan Akiev. The arrests will result in an increase in the protests in Ingushetia, human rights defenders believe.

Over the past 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled about 30 times, including the positions in four areas bordering Armenia, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

Residents of Armenia honoured the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 by laying flowers at the "Tsitsernakaberd" Memorial Complex.

At a meeting convoked in the village of Djokolo, residents of the Pankisi Gorge spoke against the construction of a chain of hydropower plants (HPPs) in the gorge, as well as against the detention of their fellow villagers, who had taken part in clashes with the police.

On April 24, 2019, the House of Representatives of the US State of Colorado adopted a resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey. By a separate point, the House recognized the independence of the Republic of Artsakh (the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic – NKR).

In Chechnya, in January-March this year, one alleged member of the armed underground was killed, whereas in the same period of 2018, there were six of them, an official of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed, thus, confirming the data of the "Caucasian Knot" about the number of alleged members of the armed underground killed during these periods.