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Yerevan has hosted a protest action against territorial concessions and deployment of peacemakers in the Karabakh conflict zone. According to organizers, about 50 persons took part in it. Their march in Yerevan passed without incidents, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The Armenia's Investigating Committee has suggested that the explosion in the bus in Yerevan had an occasional and domestic character. The version of a terror act is no longer considered, the National Security Service (NSS) has confirmed.

Searches were conducted in the houses of all the passengers of the Yerevan bus, in which the explosion occurred; and in the apartment of one of them explosives were found, a source from the Investigating Committee of Armenia told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April has marked 95 years since the time Soviet power was established in Georgia. This was preceded by invasion of the Red Army in 1921, treated by Georgian historians as an occupation of the country.

This year, Karachay-Cherkessia has celebrated the Day of Circassian Flag with larger-scale events as compared with the past years. This was stated by public activists of Karachay-Cherkessia.

The President of Armenia has announced that the country will not resume peace negotiations without guarantees of security. According to Serzh Sargsyan, he is also sceptical about the possibility of deploying Russian peacekeepers in the Karabakh conflict zone. The above was declared by him in his interview to Bloomberg given on April 25.

Border guards opened fire on an off-roader driven by a Russian citizen who tried to break into the territory of Ukraine. The Russian citizen is detained, and the question of his prosecution is under consideration, reports the FSB Department.

This morning, one more woman injured in an explosion inside a bus in Yerevan has been brought to the medical centre in serious condition.

Relatives of the Armenian soldiers killed and beheaded during the escalation of the Karabakh conflict filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Artak Zeinalyan, an advocate representing the interests of the family members of the deceased soldiers.

The authorities have agreed with the owners of the "Electrozink" Factory in Vladikavkaz to close the environmentally harmful production facility, said Vyacheslav Bitarov, the acting head of the republic. The production of lead will be stopped this summer.

In Yerevan, an explosive device was activated inside a passenger bus. This was reported by the police. The law enforcement bodies are instructed to enhance the patrol-and-post service in the streets of the Armenian capital.

The video record, depicting the intrusion of drunken policemen into the Salafi mosque located in Hungarian Fighters Street in Makhachkala, which was handed over by the mosque staff to the Prosecutor's Office, has been registered and is under study, said a source from the Office.

An explosion in a bus occurred in Alabyan Street in Yerevan at 9:51 p.m. local time. According to the latest data of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Armenia, one person was killed, and six others wounded.

Azerbaijan should eliminate obstacles to the development of civil society and expend efforts for European integration, the former political prisoners Intigam Aliev, Anar Mamedli and Rasul Jafarov said in their today's joint statement.

The arrest of Elchin Gasymov, the Deputy Chairman of the movement "Muslim Unity", has been extended by an Azerbaijan court by three months. Gasymov is charged under 13 articles of the Criminal Code.

Relatives of casualties and victims of the double terror act in "Domodedovo" Airport demand to initiate a new case against Dmitry Kamenschik, the airport owner, said the advocate Igor Trunov.

According to Andrei Podelyshev, Consul General of Russia in Istanbul, the Russian mission received no official documents, mentioning the name of Makharbi Isaev, a native of Chechnya, and no information reporting his detention in Istanbul.

During the week of April 18-24, 2016, one person was wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

According to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova is being prosecuted in connection with the non-violent exercise of the right to freedom of expression, on the charge of committing an offense with no constituent elements of offence.

Publication of the interim report on the results of investigation into the "FlyDubai" aircraft crash in Rostov-on-Don; conviction of Dagestani Vice-Premier Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov; undermining of house of alleged attackers on Dagestani village of Djuli, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 18-24, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".