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In Tbilisi, in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia, activists held an action with the demand to comply with the country's neutrality and restore diplomatic relations with Russia.

In Makhachkala, the authorities have dismantled the billboards with the portrait of Joseph Stalin, installed on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Gevorg Safaryan, a member of the "Founding Parliament" movement, accused in plotting riots in Armenia, has stopped his hunger strike.

On April 29, the Union of Journalists of Dagestan granted the "Golden Eagle" Award to four journalists and one creative team for their activities in 2014.

Today, Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC), has called on to release the young women, who danced near the WWII memorial museum "Malaya Zemlya" (Small Land) in Novorossiysk.

Relatives of the five persons sentenced to life imprisonment in the criminal case of the attack on Nalchik have appealed to human rights activists with complaints about violations, including complaints about the detention of the prisoners in one-man cells and everyday inconveniences.

The Lenin District Court of Stavropol has sentenced K.M. Djamaldinov to three years of imprisonment for involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF) in Syria. This has been reported today by the Prosecutor's Office of the Stavropol Territory.

Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes chaired by Judge Shakyar Mamedova has listened to the final speech of the public prosecutor in the case against Faradj Kerimli, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, accused of drug trafficking in Azerbaijan.

The Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has appealed to Azerbaijan with a request to detain and extradite to Georgia ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili, who arrived in Baku to take part in the 3rd Global Open Society Forum.

When examining the place of the road traffic accident, the police found 826 cartridge shells in the passenger compartment of one of two cars, the drivers of which were hospitalized after the road traffic accident.

In the morning of April 28, in Nalchik, an improvised explosive device (IED) was found at a park flower bed. In the evening, it was defused at the place.

In Yerevan, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute opened to the public after four years of renovation in the territory of the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex.

In Yerevan, supporters of the "Founding Parliament" held a protest action under the slogan "Freedom for political prisoners". Participants of the march walked down Bagramyan Avenue and stopped near all the public agencies to voice their demand.

Vyacheslav Starodubets, an author of the materials about Derbent, has claimed that investigators fail to react to his numerous complaints and delay the investigation into the case of his beating.

Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) administration reshuffle can be explained by the Kremlin's desire to deprive local officials of the chance to embezzle the funds allocated for the construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge. This opinion was expressed by political analysts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

Lieutenant Colonel Vardan Vardanyan, sentenced to five years in prison in the case of "Million Mask March", has declared a hunger strike.

The Rostov Regional Court (RRC), which is considering an appeal against the sentence to journalist and blogger Sergey Reznik, has refused to study the written evidence in the case. The judge has announced the end of the judiciary inquiry and transition to the debate phase.

Khavazh-Bagaudin Aushev, a son of the co-chairman of the Supreme Board of the Ingush public movement "Mekhk-Khel", who was detained by the police, has become a figurant of the criminal case about the hijacking a foreign-made car from the car park of the shopping centre in Samara.

Residents of the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia reported that local young villagers were recruited for war in Syria. In response to these complaints, Levan Izoriya, the deputy head of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), stated on April 27 that recruiters are outside Georgia.

On April 27, in Moscow, activists of the youth wing of the "RPR-PARNAS" held a series of solo pickets in front of the building of the Chechen Representative Office. The protestors demanded to question top-ranking Chechen officials and power agents in Boris Nemtsov murder case.