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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).

Members of the International Crisis Group (ICG) have confirmed the information of the "Caucasian Knot" stating that Khusein Betelgeriev had returned home. According to the report, the Chechen bard was beaten.

The defence has filed an appeal against the court's decision on the arrest of Maxim Panfilov, a resident of Astrakhan, accused of involvement in the mass riot in Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. This was reported by his advocate Sergey Panchenko.

The search for a soldier of the Defence Army, missing in action during the escalation of the conflict, is still underway in the area of the contact line of troops. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The "Islamic State" (IS) has not yet claimed responsibility for the attack on the ROVD (District Interior Division) in the Stavropol Territory, emphasized the experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot". The experts suppose that the attack could be committed by residents of the region without combat experience, who had fallen under the influence of the IS propaganda.

The persons, who attacked the Novoselitsk ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Stavropol Territory, have been officially identified as earlier convicted Zaur Akaev, Ramazan Khaibulaev and Isai Abdulatipov, said the spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The bodies of perished servicemen, handed over to Nagorno-Karabakh by the Azerbaijani party in the presence of representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), had traces of torture and mockery, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

The attack on Novoselitsk ROVD (District Interior Division) a "presentation of capacities of the IS unit, operating in the Stavropol Territory," said Andrei Serenko, the Chairman of the Expert Council of the Research Foundation of Electoral Politics.

Law enforcement bodies have appointed a check for the involvement of the Imam from the Novoselitsk District, Stavropol Territory, to the today's attack on the local ROVD (District Interior Division). Earlier, explosives were found in the Imam's house, anonymous sources

Illegal actions of the staff of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Nalchik have provoked a mass hunger strike of inmates, which went unnoticed, relatives of inmates report. According to their stories, last night, about 30 inmates cut their wrist veins.

Today, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been introduced after the explosions within the territory of the Novoselitsky Municipal District of the Stavropol Territory. This was reported by the Russian FSB Department for the Stavropol Territory.

Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the building of the ROVD (District Interior Division) in the village of Novoselitskoe of the Stavropol Territory. In total, about five explosions occurred. This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies.

At night of April 10 and in the morning of the same day, the Azerbaijani armed forces 17 times shelled the Armenian positions in the north-east direction of the state border of Armenia. This was reported by the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has called on the authorities of Dagestan to prevent fabrication of a criminal case against Magomednabi Magomedov, Imam of the Khasavyurt "Eastern" mosque. According to the human rights defenders, the Imam publicly spoke out against violence and against departure of young Muslims to join militants.

Armistice in the Karabakh conflict zone and meetings of the parties with mediators; entry into force of the verdict to Nadezhda Savchenko and her announcement of hunger strike; appointment of the date of the parliamentary elections in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 4-10, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

About 3000 people took part in the "March of Silence" in memory of the soldiers and officers killed in Nagorno-Karabakh. The march started from the Shaumyan Avenue in Yerevan.

During the week of April 4-10, 2016, five persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, three persons were killed, and two others were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Policemen entered the mosque in a state of alcoholic intoxication and behaved inappropriately. This was reported by staff member of the mosque located in Hungarian Fighters Street in Makhachkala. The mosque administration intends to file a complaint about the behaviour of the policemen.