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Moscow lawyer Ilyas Alaev, a native of Chechnya, who was found dead in a garage cooperative, was killed. This was stated by his relatives. They reject the investigators' preliminary version about his suicide.

At the court session in the case against Sergey Zirinov, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Kuban, the court has announced the results of the examinations concerning signs of physical impacts and injuries on the body of defendant Eduard Paladyan.

During the 36th round of the Geneva Discussions on Transcaucasia, the delegations of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Russia have negatively assessed the UN resolution adopted on refugees and left the room.

Today, the Sovietsky District Court of Astrakhan has upheld the ruling of the magistrate judge to fine by 300 roubles Igor Stenin, the leader of the nationalist movement "Russians of Astrakhan" for the dissemination of personal data.

The Kaspiysk City Court has sentenced a local woman Umukusum Asgedinova to five years in prison on charges of an attempt to participation in an illegal armed formation (IAF) in Syria.

Relatives of Salafi Omar Musaev, kidnapped in Khasavyurt, hold a rally in front of the local ROVD (District Interior Division). Law enforcers have assured the protesters that Omar Musaev is not being kept at their place; however, they refused to let them into the building.

Suspects are reported in the case of injury of the director of the House of Culture in the village of Karabudakhkent. They are two bodyguards of the head of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, reports a source of the "Chernovik" (Draft). According to the source, both suspects are detained.

The Kaspiysk City Court has demanded from Nurakhmed Mirzaev, a local resident, who filed a complaint about the inaction of the police, to provide the data. The paradox is in the fact that Nurakhmed Mirzaev went to the court to complain about non-receipt of those data, reports the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

On the first day of enforcing the Amnesty Act, 350 persons will be released, said Alimamed Nuriev, a member of the Public Oversight Committee (POC) and the head of the Research Fund "Constitution". However, according to rights defenders, the amnesty has not covered political prisoners.

The Krasnodar Territory (also named Kuban by the name of the main river) has been mentioned among seven regions with high index of socio-economic and political tensions, which were indicated in the report prepared by experts of the Committee of Civil Initiatives.

Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, a defendant in the case of the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a suspected accomplice of the killer, has refused to sign the protocol of familiarization with the materials of the criminal case.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Vano Merabishvili's complaint will be appealed against, said Thea Tsulukiani, the Minister of Justice of Georgia, noting that in this case the above decision may come into force only in 2017.

The court has ruled to bring two of the attackers on Alexei Navalny, the head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), and his staff to administrative responsibility for disorderly conduct (petty hooliganism). The cases of ten Cossacks and one ACF employee have been sent to the Magistrate Court.

In Dagestan, an explosion near a police car in the village of Novy Khushet does not indicate the militants' transition from armed clashes to techniques of sabotage, and it is not possible to draw a conclusion about weakening of the "Islamic State" (IS) (banned in Russia) in Northern Caucasus. This opinion was voiced by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Alexander Valov, the editor-in-chief of the "BlogSochi", was unlawfully arrested for five days for organizing a mass event in the Olympic village in Sochi, since his actions did not violate the law. This was stated by the defenders, who filed an appeal against the court decision.

Law enforcers have detained a resident of Baksan, who, according to their version, is involved in the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned Russia. A bomb was found in the course of the search in the suspect's house, reports a source from the law enforcement bodies.

The picket "For Russia without dictatorship" was held in the place specially allocated by the authorities for holding of actions. This was stated by picketers, when the police detained them and drew up administrative protocols against them.

The opposition newspaper "Azadlyg" is given two weeks to pay off its debt in the amount of 12,000 US dollars in front of the publishing house "Azerbaijan". Otherwise, the newspaper will be closed.

Ruzanna Egnukyan, an activist of the "Front of Armenian Women", who was recognized a victim in a clash with the police which occurred in Yerevan on March 24, refused to come to the investigator. According to her, she has nothing new to say to the investigators.

Last night, unidentified persons shelled a car of the director of the House of Culture of the village of Karabudakhkent. His life is not in danger, reports officials from the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).