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The weapons were planted to defendants, the witnesses' testimonies were fabricated, and the accusations of extremism are unfounded. This was reported by advocates of the defendants, accused of plotting a terror act at the "Kirgizia" cinema.

When commenting on materials of the Chechen official media with refutation of the Ramazan Djalaldinov's statements, Internet users have expressed their fears that the life of Ramazan Djalaldinov may be endangered because of his video message addressed to the Russian President and describing corruption in the village of Kenkhi.

Today, during the conversation with her mother, sister, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Nadezhda Savchenko has agreed to stop her hunger strike.

The demand to disqualify the presiding judge is unjustified, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has ruled.

At night on April 19, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces violated the ceasefire for 18 times, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

On April 18, during detention in the village of Sogratl, Ali Kveshov, a native of the village, who had been searched, was wounded, said a law enforcement source from the Gunib District of Dagestan. According to his version, Kveshov is the leader of local militants.

In Yerevan, the protest action in support of Levon Airapetyan has been completed. The activists handed over to the Russian Embassy a letter demanding to release the businessman, who was sentenced by the court in Moscow to four years of imprisonment in the case of a fraud.

The Azerbaijani authorities have let the seriously sick rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus, who are serving their conditional sentences, out of the country.

According to a staff members of the Central Library in Grozny, four other staff members of the Central Library, including the director, could be dismissed because of the dissemination of the information about the closure of the institution. The Central Library will not be closed, and it is just moved to another place, the authorities report.

In the Lankaran District of Azerbaijan, law enforcers detained local residents Gismet Isaev and Vugar Ismailov. According to law enforcers, they are supporters of the unregistered movement "Muslim Unity" and involved in a number of crimes, including incitement to civil disobedience.

A video clip has appeared in social networks, reporting that the well-known Chechen pop singer Aza (Khazan) Bataeva has joined the "Islamic State" (IS) and is staying in the territory controlled by this terrorist organization banned in Russia. Users of social networks doubt the truthfulness of the video.

Negotiations on settlement of the Karabakh conflict are expected in the near future with the active mediation of Russia, which will get support from the OSCE Minsk Group, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They noted that the search for compromise will be based on the earlier voiced out principles.

The contesters from the republics of Northern Caucasus, who took part in the beauty contest "Miss Russia-2016" for the first time, felt reverent attitude and no bias, said Ekaterina Khachirova, a contender from Beslan.

In the village of Sogratl, Gunib District, at an attempt to escape from policemen, a militant, who was on the federal wanted list, was wounded.

The defence of Umar Butaev, a Dagestani blogger and an observer of the "Chernovik" (Draft) newspaper, could not figure out within the framework of what criminal case the blogger's house was searched and Butaev was questioned, said his advocate.

In the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, power agents have launched a counterterrorist operation (CTO) to search for and detain supposed militants.

A challenge of the chairing judge, who is considering at the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic the criminal case against the citizens of Ukraine Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, has been claimed by the defence.

One of the wounded soldiers of Karabakh, who receives medical treatment at the Yerevan Central Clinical Hospital "Muratsan", still remains in severe condition.

The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has refused to change the pre-trial restriction measure for field investigator Alan Bigaev, the fifth defendant in the case of the Vladimir Tskaev's death, who is being kept in custody.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has completed the judicial investigation of the case of Mukhamed Akhmedov, Sirazhutdin Mirzabekov and Bagir Mazalaev, who had intended to travel to Syria to participate in the "Islamic State" (IS), an organization, recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia.