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Today, on April 28, long-haul truck drivers (truckers) from Dagestan have decided to wind up their camp near the village of Manas. The decision was announced today at the meeting that took place in the camp, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

On April 27, the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) included three organizations - the "Open Russia" (UK), the "Institute of Contemporary Russia" (USA), and the public network movement "Open Russia" (UK) - in the list of foreign and international NGOs which activities were recognized as undesirable within the territory of Russia. This was reported by the statement posted on the Russian MoJ's website.

Today, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has announced the completion of the investigation into the case against two participants in the action held by supporters of Alexei Navalny in Moscow, who are accused of using violence against policemen. One of the defendants is a resident of Volzhsky, who claims that he happened to be on the place of the action.

Over the past year, in Azerbaijan, the situation with religious freedom has deteriorated. This conclusion was reached by authors of the annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) "2017. The situation with religious freedom in the world".

On April 27, in Rostov-on-Don, after a long break arisen from the prosecutors' check, the trial was resumed in the case against 10 young residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of an attempt to create a Caliphate in the republic.

The lack of an anti-discrimination law in Armenia, the situation of national minorities and the problems of school education urgently require their solution by the state. This opinion was expressed by authors of the alternative report of the Anti-Discrimination Centre (ADC) "Memorial" and the Institute of Civil Society. On April 27, the report was presented at the session of the UN Special Committee, reports Stefaniya Kulaeva, a member of the ADC "Memorial".

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has upheld the refusal of the Prosecutor's Office to launch an investigation of the application lodged by the blogger Mekhman Guseinov about torturing him after detention.

The Maikop City Court (MCC) has upheld the decision of the Ministry of Justice of Adygea of putting the environmental and human rights organization “Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus” (EcoWatch) into the register of organizations performing the functions of a “foreign agent”.

On April 24, the Regional Public Fund named after Akhmat Kadyrov allocated apartments to 15 needy families in Grozny, a source from the Grozny administration told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on the same day.

In the first quarter of 2017, the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) saw a drop in the number of terrorism-related crimes by 37.5%.

In Southern Russia, the religious communities of Jehovah's Witnesses expect massive persecutions after the judgement of the Russia’s Supreme Court (SC) to liquidate the communities in Russia as extremist ones.

The attack on Ilya Varlamov involved a deputy of the Stavropol City Duma, one of the directors of a commercial company. This was reported by the blogger himself.

The investigation into the case of plotting of an assassination attempt on the leader of Chechnya has almost been completed, and defendants have confessed to the crime. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source from the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

On April 26, when presenting his report for 2016 as part of the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, emphasized that the countries of the Council of Europe (CE) should stand up for the protection of members of LGBT community representatives.

Only in Cherkessk, more than 500 entrepreneurs engaged in transportation activities have stopped their work. This was stated by truck drivers when they commented on the statement made by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on 480 protestors on strike against the "Platon" system throughout Russia. Truck drivers of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have sent a report about disinformation to the address of Dmitry Medvedev.

The government of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has approved the project on involvement of unemployed citizens in temporary public works.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine has condemned the verdict pronounced by the North-Caucasian District Military Court against Ruslan Zeitullaev, recognized as the organizer of the Crimean unit of the terrorist organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir", banned in Russia.

The participants of the contest for high school pupils "The Man in History; Russia – the 20th Century", which is annually held by the International "Memorial", faced pressure in the form of intimidation and suspicious questions, said the participants and organizers of the contest.

Two persons were detained in Moscow for holding a non-sanctioned protest near the building, where today the winners of the contest for high school pupils "The Man in History; Russia – the 20th Century" were awarded.

The video clip "Joke about Koran" by blogger Ilya Davydov has been put on the federal list of extremist materials based on the decision of the Zavodskoy District Court of Grozny, the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has reported. The "Sova" Information-Analytical Centre has treated this decision as unjustified and groundless.