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Igor Vasiliev, the leader of the Sochi Branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), has addressed the reception office of President Vladimir Putin asking him to take action in connection with the placement of Alexei Goryachkin, an assistant of Sergey Obukhov, a State Duma MP, into a temporary detention facility (known as the IVS).

Elena Nikitina, the organizer of the April 29 picket in the Lazarevskoye District, is still in the intensive care unit, as prescribed by her doctors. After discharge from the hospital, she intends to appeal to the prosecutor's office with a complaint about policemen's actions, said her advocate.

A new minivan was given to Bashir Pliev, a resident of Ingushetia, who in March was transporting journalists and human rights defenders in the region together with them fell victim to an attack. The minivan will be insured, notes Igor Kalyapin, the leader of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture".

The list of 45 nominees has included Elena Grebenyuk, a journalist from Astrakhan, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", Tuapse ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova, and Polina Zherbetsova, a writer, a political refugee from Chechnya.

Elita Magomadova, a native of Chechnya, managed to enforce the court judgement on the return of her child to her, which her ex-husband had taken away after the divorce. The rights defenders, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", have treated the fact of the return of the child as contrary to the established traditions and the inefficient Russian legal system.

Azerbaijan is accumulating its military equipment and manpower across the whole contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh, Eduard Nalbandyan, the head of the Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA), during his visit to Finland.

Journalist Seimour Khazi, who is serving his prison sentence in Azerbaijan, has become one of the winners of the annual Gerd Bucerius Prize "Free Press of Eastern Europe 2016", awarded by the German "Zeit-Stiftung" Foundation and the Norwegian "Free Speech" Foundation.

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group should provide Armenia with additional security guarantees and find Azerbaijan guilty of aggravating the situation in the Karabakh conflict zone, Armenian political analysts believe.

In the course of the investigation into the attack on journalists and human rights defenders on the Ingush-Chechen border, investigators fail to provide the information about the investigation progress. This was claimed by the victims. They intend to appeal to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for clarification.

During the week of April 25-May 1, 2016, one person was killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded 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.

Celebration of the Orthodox Easter and May Day in Southern Russia; attacks on dwelling settlements in the Karabakh conflict zone; dispersal of a peaceful protest in Sochi; report about closure of hazardous facility at "Electrozink" Factory in Vladikavkaz; explosion of a bus in Yerevan; deprivation of Sagid Murtazaliev of a mandate of Dagestani MP, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 25-May 1, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The village of Talysh in Nagorno-Karabakh is under constant fire from the Azerbaijani party; its residents are provided with temporary shelter in Stepanakert, said Vilen Petrosyan, the community leader.

All regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) held rallies on the occasion of the Spring and Labour Day. Participants of the rallies spoke for the decrease in food prices, the fight against unemployment, and the increase of salaries and pensions.

In Georgia, the ruling coalition is supported by 20% of the population, while the opposition by 19%. These are the results of the questioning conducted by the "IPM Research" by order of the International Republican Institute (IRI).

Policemen of the Sharoy ROVD (District Interior Division) have detained two residents of the village of Kenkhi in order to obtain information on the whereabouts of Ramazan Djalaldinov, said Vasily Polonsky, a correspondent of the "Dozhd" (Rain) TV Company.

The detention of Magomed Akhmedov was reported today by the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly. According to the paper, the reason was that he had driven Vasily Polonsky, a journalist of the "Dozhd" (Rain) TV Company, to the village of Kenkhi for making a report about Ramazan Djalaldinov's appeal to Vladimir Putin.

An explosion of an artillery shell occurred within a private household in the village of Djepel, Magaramkent District of Dagestan. Four people were injured, one – a five-year-old child – died.

A rally to mark the 59th anniversary of the return of the Karachay nationals to their historic homeland was held today at the railway station of the dwelling settlement of Erken-Shakhar of the Nogai District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). The first train with returnees from deportation arrived at this station 59 years ago.

Relatives of Ariskhan Movsarov, a conscript from Chechnya, who took his military service in the brigade deployed in Maikop, the capital of Adygea, cannot establish his whereabouts for more than two weeks. Movsarov had no conflicts with his fellow-servicemen; and the command of the unit would not report why he is absent at his place of service, relatives assert.

The reason for a picket in the Lazarevskoe District of Sochi, which was dispersed by the police, was a long neglect by the authorities of the demand to return the pedestrian crossing, which allowed seniors and people with disabilities to easily access the socially relevant objects, said the eyewitnesses to the conflict.