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The Portuguese Parliament has recognized the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed gratitude to Portuguese MPs.

The activists, who gathered to commemorate Mekhman Galandarov, have criticized the official version of his death at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). According to their version, the blogger was arrested for political reasons; and his death could have been violent.

The mass arrests of Ingush oppositionists are heating up the already tense situation in the republic; all the arrested activists should be released under recognizance not to leave, human rights defenders assert.

Bikers from Russia were denied entry because border guards treated the information about the aim of their journey as false, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported. The motorcyclists claim that their group of 30 bikers was driving to a rally in Greece.

Today in the afternoon, a section of the Yerevan-Tbilisi road near the village of Baganis, Tavush Region of Armenia, was fired from Azerbaijani positions this afternoon, the village headman and the press secretary of the head of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have reported.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has sentenced Rustam Ismailov, accused of committing a terror act in Pyatigorsk and preparing an explosion in Stavropol, to 15 years in colony investigators have informed.

During the week of April 22-28, 2019, no victims to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

After finding out that Ingush activist Akhmed Barakhoev was not kept at the Nalchik SIZO (pre-trial prison), the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria postponed the consideration of a complaint about the Ingush activist's arrest.

A resident of Smolensk, whom Ramzan Kadyrov promised to donate a car and provide assistance after a resonant road traffic accident in Moscow, complained that the promise had not been fulfilled. Users of social networks criticized the leader of Chechnya.

Over 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani armed forces in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 22 times, including positions in border villages, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

On April 28, two Ingush men were detained near the village of Dattykh located not far from the border with Chechnya and taken to the neighbouring republic, reported Magomed Pidiev, a native of the Dattykh village.

Celebration of Orthodox Easter; arrest of KChR law enforcers linked with Arashukovs; start of trial on resonant murder in KBR; commemorations of victims of Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey; pardoning convicts in Georgia, – read about these events in the weekly review of the "Caucasian Knot" for April 22-28, 2019.

The YouTube video hosting service has posted a new message addressed to the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, from the person who presented himself as a Kadyrov's fellow villager, Khusein Mezhidov. He insults the blogger and states that he is ready to respond for the latter's death, even from an accident. The residents of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated a serious threat to Abdurakhmanov.

The demands of the residents of the village of Irganai to receive compensations for their flooded land plots and gardens are fair; but people may be left without power supplies, if they refuse to pay, social networks users have suggested.

A bill has been brought to US Congress on sanctions for Georgia' infringement of interests of those businessmen or organizations that have links with the USA. The opposition is convinced that this is a reaction to a criminal case against the leadership of the TBC Bank, which has created a threat to American investments into the construction of the Anaklia Port.

On April 25, the Circassian Flag Day, in Nalchik, law enforcers stopped everyone who was driving cars and motorcycles with this flag; a number of activists were fined, eyewitnesses have reported. Social networks users expressed their outrage at law enforcers' actions.

The City Court of Tbilisi pronounced against a Ukrainian woman, suspected of child trafficking, the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of arrest. The spokesperson of the Prosecutor's Office states that investigators have a document confirming the charge.

On April 26, at a meeting with the head of the Untsukul District, residents of the Irganai village said that they would not pay for electricity until they received compensation for the land flooded during the construction of a hydroelectric power plant (HPP).

In the period from April 21 to April 27, the Azerbaijani armed forces fired more than 3700 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported. The MoD called for an end to the "artificially aggravated" situation in the conflict zone.

Today, Varvara Karaulova, sentenced for attempting to join the IS*, has been released from a penal colony in Vologda.