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As a result of the aggravation of the situation on the troops contact line 88 people perished, including 73 servicemen, the Armenia Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

Maxim Panfilov, a resident of Astrakhan, arrested on the charge of involvement in the mass riot in Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, is to undergo an appointed psychiatric examination. This was reported by his advocate.

Thomas Melia, Assistant Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has called deplorable the situation in the Georgian villages located on the border with South Ossetia. The Georgian authorities do not actually solve a lot of social problems of local residents. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by residents of the near-border villages.

Russia breaks its alliance commitments to Armenia by selling weapons to Azerbaijan, said the marchers, who protested in front of the Russian Embassy in Yerevan.

Today, one of the entrances to the settlement of Leninkent in the outskirt of Makhachkala was blocked by armoured vehicles. According to law enforcement sources, here, power agents began targeted check in search of militants and their helpers. In the course of the operation they blocked a house with suspected militants inside.

In Turkey, special services have detained two Russian citizens: Yuri Anisimov, 52, and Alexander Smirnov, 55, on suspicion of killing Abdulvakhid Edilgeriev, the administrator of the website "Kavkaz-Centre".

In Nalchik, inmates of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 have stopped their hunger strike yet in the evening of April 12. This was reported by the Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN).

At the border with Georgia, North-Ossetian border guards have detained a resident of one of the republics of Northern Caucasus. According to the FSB, the man intended to go to Syria to take part in the combat actions in the ranks of the "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia.

On April 11, about 50 farmers from more than 10 regions of the Krasnodar Territory recorded a collective video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a demand to stop raider seizure of land plots in the region. Today, the farmers have sent their video message to Vladimir Putin hot line, which will be held on April 14.

Last night and this morning, according to the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Defence (MoD), ceasefire has been violated in some areas of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani contact line.

Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh should be ready for resumption of hostilities in the conflict zone. This opinion was voiced by participants in the discussion on the topic: "The lessons of the four-day war in Karabakh", which was held in Yerevan on April 12.

Field investigators are engaged in checking the version that the attack on the Novoselitsk ROVD (District Interior Division) could be motivated by personal revenge on policemen from Zaur Akaev, who was killed in the attack. This was reported by a source close to the investigation. Zaur Akaev spent a long period of time in prison while serving his sentence for murder of domestic nature, reports his friend.

Today, the administration of the Salafi mosque located in Hungarian Fighters Street has filed complaints with the demand to bring to responsibility the policemen for their invasion into the Salafi mosque and insulting its believers.

Law enforcers have detained a suspected helper to the Kitaevskaya villagers who attacked the building of the Novoselitsk ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Stavropol Territory, law enforcement sources have reported today.

The statement of the Azerbaijani party that the social objects in its territory were exposed to missile attacks is disinformation, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has announced today.

Armenia should be held legally responsible for the shelling of dwelling settlements and killings of civilians in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

The inmates, who cut themselves in protest against the actions of the staff of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Nalchik, told the members of the Republic's Public Oversight Commission (POC) about beatings.

The Khasavyurt City Court has fined a local resident for placing in a social network an image of the flag of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia.

Maxim Panfilov, a resident of Astrakhan, should be released, states the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". According to the human rights defenders, the events in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow which took place on May 6, 2012, and of involvement in which Maxim Panfilov was accused, had no signs of a mass riot.

The police have detained two persons suspected of setting fire on a car in the city of Nizhnevartovsk, in which law enforcers found fragments of human bodies on April 4. This was reported by the press service of the Department for the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).