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One of the five persons detained in Chechnya and Dagestan on suspicion of preparing terror acts, has told law enforcers their plan to attack policemen with the help of a quadcopter.

More than 2300 residents of Stepanakert have participated in the traditional torchlight march in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Apart from torches and candles, the marchers carried flags of the countries, which have recognized the Armenian Genocide.

The second hippodrome in Chechnya has been opened in Shali; the third one is being built in Grozny; it will be the largest in Northern Caucasus. Horse races in Chechnya are held very rarely, local residents said. To make a hippodrome profitable, it must have hundreds of races per year and take toto bets, said the branch workers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

A sculpture to a citizen who has brought garbage to a bin will be installed in Kaspiysk in order to draw attention to the problem of spontaneous dumps in the city. The initiative of one of the construction companies has caused a hot debate in social networks about the sources of garbage in the streets of Kaspiysk and other cities of Dagestan.

Rashid Aushev has become today, together with the activists detained earlier, Khasan Katsiev and Akhmed Nalgiev, the third suspect in the case of clashes with law enforcers at a rally in Magas, the advocates, Akhmed Kaloev and Magomed Bekov, have informed.

Five members of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, were preparing attacks on law enforcers in the cities of Kaspiysk and Grozny, the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) has informed.

Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has entered a remote dispute with the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, and supported Ramzan Kadyrov's opinion.

The verdict pronounced by the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia in favour of Tariq Topçu, deprived of his residence permit, will receive a positive response among members of the Circassian Diaspora, activists believe.

The decision made by the Arbitration Court of Adygea on transferring the building of the first Maikop mosque from the property of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Russian Federation to the property of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Adygea and the Krasnodar Territory is a historically important event, believes Asfar Myss, the head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims for the Takhtamukai District.

The truce in the Karabakh conflict zone was broken, and fire came from the side of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan has reported today.

Foreign TV channels should be removed from the package of state TV channels and transferred to private digital TV channels, said Tigran Akopyan, the head of the Armenia's National Commission on TV and Radio.

At a rally in the city of Ganja, family members of those arrested in connection with the July 2018 events have demanded to release them.

Three solidarity actions with the residents of the Pankisi Gorge, who are protesting against the construction of a chain of hydropower plants (HPPs), have been held in Tbilisi and Batumi. Activists called on the authorities to abandon the construction and punish the policemen for an excessive use of force.

Gocha Fidiuri, a resident of the village of Medjvriskhevi, located on the border with South Ossetia, was released after paying a fine for violating the border and handed over to Georgian law enforcers.

Aslanbek Tumgoev, the head of the city administration (Mayor) of the city of Nazran, has decided to forgive Isropil Barkinkhoev, a resident of Ingushetia, who had wounded his son during an armed conflict. The reconciliation ceremony took place in the central mosque in the presence of about 200 people.

Shamil Kazbulatov, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, was found guilty of encroaching on the life of servicemen as a member of the gang of Basaev and Khattab in Chechnya, and sentenced to 16 years in a high security colony, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reported on April 22.

The protest against the construction of hydropower plants (HPPs) in the Pankisi Gorge has demonstrated the authorities' inability to conduct dialogue with the population, activists of oppositional parties have stated. Georgian human rights organizations demanded the resignation of the newly appointed head of the Ministry of Economy.

The bill put forward today for consideration by Armenian MPs envisages to render help to the victims and successors of those ten persons who perished during clashes on March 1-2, 2008, Lena Nazaryan, the Vice-Speaker has informed.

33 policemen and three residents of the Pankisi Gorge, who received traumas during the protest action against the construction of hydropower plants (HPPs) in the gorge, have been discharged from the clinic in Telavi. The participants of the rally in the village of Birkiani have warned the authorities that an attempt to arrest activists will result in intensified protests.

Opposition journalist Afghan Mukhtarly, who was sentenced to six years of imprisonment, complained of severe pains, reported his wife Leyla Mustafaeva. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for Azerbaijan claims that Afghan Mukhtarly has the opportunity to undergo all necessary medical examinations.