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The agitation campaign before the early presidential election in Azerbaijan was dull and inconspicuous, the authorities gave up active propaganda, so as not to draw unnecessary attention to the factual absence of rivalry, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have confirmed.

Leonid Mikhelson, a businessman and a native of Kaspiysk, and Suleiman Kerimov, a senator from Dagestan, lost more than 1,6 billion US dollars as a result of the US sanctions imposed on Russia on April 6, the Forbes has estimated.

In Azerbaijan, today, any agitation for the presidential election is prohibited starting from 8:00 a.m. The voting will take place on April 11.

Today, at a meeting of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov has reported that in Ingushetia, the special services prevented a terror act at a polling station on the day of presidential election.

On April 9, Khabib Nurmagomedov, who won the UFC Light Heavyweight Title, arrived in Dagestan. At the Makhachkala airport, the athlete was greeted by relatives, friends, fans and representatives of the Dagestani authorities.

On the anniversary of persecution of gays in Chechnya, activists have installed a memorial sign near the permanent representative office of Chechnya in Moscow.

A soldier Narek Arutyunyan was killed by a shot from the Azerbaijani side, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has stated.

Everyday protests against the preservation of power in the hands of Serzh Sargsyan will be held in all Yerevan districts until the election of the Prime Minister by the MPs on April 17, oppositionists have announced.

Today, about 500 people gathered in Freedom Square in Yerevan with a demand to prevent Serzh Sargsyan from taking the post of Prime Minister. The acting head of the Armenian government has confirmed today that Serzh Sargsyan will be nominated to the post of the Premiere.

Abu-Walid Al-Shishani, who had been treated by Iraqi mass media as the "right hand" of the leader of the "Islamic State", a terrorist organization, banned in Russian by the court, was killed by the Iraqi armed forces in the north of the country. Abu-Walid Al-Shishani, or Murad Margoshvili, was a native of the Pankisi Gorge; his relatives have not yet received information about his death.

After a meeting with an officer of the Yerevan Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Maxim Baidak, a Muslim activist, blogger and political analyst, also known as Salman Sever, asked for asylum in Armenia.

Members of the movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) held a constituent congress of the same political party and elected Ilgar Mamedov to be its leader.

Today, Yunus-Bek Evkurov has announced that Ingushetia has managed to eliminate the hotbeds of extremism. However, according to the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", in 2017, the number of victims to the conflict in the republic increased by more than a quarter.

The ceremony of Armen Sargsyan's inauguration took place at a special session of the Parliament held at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concert Complex in Yerevan. About 1300 guests attended the oath ceremony.

The video, shown today by the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, recorded how a group of black young people who was playing football on a sports ground, was attacked by several men who used sticks to beat the black people.

Celebration of Easter by Orthodox believers in Southern Russia; second anniversary of the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict; collapse at a mine in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 2-8, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of April 2-8, 2018, no one fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Emzar Gundishvili and Teimuraz Kaziev, two residents of the Adzvi village in the Gori District, who were detained on the border with South Ossetia on April 7, were released by the authorities of South Ossetia.

On April 7-8, the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan repeatedly violated the ceasefire by using small firearms, the spokesman for the Armenian Ministry of Defence told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Khabib Nurmagomedov, a Dagestani fighter, who has won today the title of UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) champion, has called on Putin to help the arrested businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov. With Khabib's support, the petition demanding an impartial investigation into the Magomedov's case has gathered 8088 signatures.