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Samir Kyazymly, an Azerbaijani human rights defender and the coordinator of the Alliance for the Protection of Political Freedoms, has complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that he is constantly unreasonably checked at customs when leaving Azerbaijan and coming back home. On April 19, the ECtHR notified him that his complaint had been registered.

In Volgograd, activists have held solo pickets in support of democratic election in Ukraine and demanding the power changeability in Russia.

On April 14-20, Azerbaijani soldiers fired more than 2200 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated.

At the election debate on April 19, the incumbent president of Ukraine Pyotr (Petro) Poroshenko reproached his rival, Vladimir Zelensky, of public apology to the head of Chechnya. Ramzan Kadyrov took the side of Zelensky by accusing Poroshenko of inconsistency and recalling that he, after Kadyrov's demand, "had hastily liberated" Russian journalists.

A resident of the village of Medjvriskhevi, located on the border with South Ossetia was kidnapped from his land plot, the office of the state minister of Georgia for reconciliation matters has reported.

The investigators' sixth decision to suspend the inquiry into the torture of Albert Khamkhoev, a resident of Ingushetia, has been cancelled, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed. The case has been entrusted to a new investigator, rights defenders have clarified.

On April 19, Akhmed Barakhoev, one of the leaders of the protests in Ingushetia, arrested within the case of calls to unrests, turned 65. On this day, banners were hung out on the Kamenny Bridge in Moscow with congratulations to Barakhoev and an appeal for the resignation of the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

It is expected that over 1000 foreign visitors will attend the CONIFA Football Cup to be hosted by Nagorno-Karabakh. Over 60 families voiced the desire to host guests of the event.

Over the past 24 hours, the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia was violated 21 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

Malsag Uzhakhov, the chairman of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans), is arrested. The defence decided to appeal against the decision on his arrest.

The accusations to the participants of the conflict in Tbilisi, during which Vitaly Safarov, an employee of the "Centre for Inclusion and Development" was killed, were reclassified to more grave ones. Avtandil Kandelakishvili and Giorgi Sokhadze are now accused of murder based on national discord.

In Abkhazia, potential presidential candidates are not in a hurry to announce their nomination. The incumbent head of state has strong positions, but his victory is not guaranteed; and many voters assess the past five years as years lost for the development of the country, journalists have stated.

Saida Khalikova, convicted for sponsoring militants, was on a hunger strike for six days in her colony in the Volgograd Region. She complains about the ban to pray at night, said a member of the Public Oversight Commission (POC), who visited her.

Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has criticized the Ingush opposition and urged the former head of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, to tell about the demarcation of territories. Daudov's statement was the first loud statement by the Chechen authorities since the start of a new wave of protests in Ingushetia.

The preconditions for signing a new partnership agreement of Azerbaijan with the European Union (EU) should be the absence of political prisoners in the country and the respect for human rights, the opposition has stated. The agreement with the EU is ready by 90%, the head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

Investigators have failed to reveal any information about the detained chairman of the Ingush Council of Teips, Malsag Uzhakhov, Djabrail Kuriev, Uzhakhov's advocate, has informed. Before his detention Malsag was going to voluntarily appear at the police, said his son, Ruslan Uzhakhov.

On April 18, members of Ingush Diasporas in France and Belgium took part in a rally demanding the release their fellow countrymen detained in their homeland and to dismiss the head of Ingushetia.

Today, Malsag Uzhakhov, the Chairman of the Council of Teips (family clans) of Ingushetia, was taken away today by people, who came to his house in cars, said Khasan Katsiev, an activist.

A photo exhibition in Stepanakert presents images of 15 castles found in Nagorno-Karabakh over the past eight years. Local authorities hope that the new monuments will be interesting for tourists.

The Armenian authorities allocated about 257,000 US dollars for the celebration of the Citizen's Day. The money should have been spent on solving urgent problems, the residents of Armenia interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.