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The forest fire in the vicinity of the villages of Balakhani and Tsatanikh of the Untsukul District of Dagestan, where a large counterterrorist operation (CTO) was conducted, is completely eliminated.

Zaur Dadaev, accused of killing Boris Nemtsov, has expressed his intention to undergo a lie detector (polygraph) test in order to prove his innocence, the "Kommersant" has reported today.

The Adler District Court of Sochi has refused to explain the Saveliev family its decision, under which the family was obliged to dismantle other people's building.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the refusal of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to check the legality of the statements of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov about demolition of houses owned by militants' relatives and eviction of them out of the republic.

Power agents conducted another inspection of documents in young men wearing beards, Grozny residents report.

Today, the legal counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime that was in force in the Untsukul, Gergebil and Buynaksk District of Dagestan has been cancelled.

The lawyers of the public organization "Committee against Torture" (CaT) have submitted a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the interests of Suleiman Edigov, a native of Chechnya, sentenced to 14.5 years in prison, despite the information that he was tortured.

22 children affected by the hostilities in the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DNR and LNR, respectively) are delivered to Chechnya. The children are hospitalized to clinics of Grozny, where they are to undergo courses of free medical treatment and rehabilitation.

One of the examinations appointed as a part of the investigation into the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder is to answer the question about the possible involvement of five defendants in drug trafficking and their possible drug addiction, the "Kommersant" reports today.

Detention of activists of "Constituent Parliament" in Armenia on charges of plotting mass disorders; new unofficial information and re-arrest of three defendants in Boris Nemtsov's murder case; termination of protest hunger strike of Dagestani Shushiya villagers, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 6-12, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the Mass of April 12, Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, called the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 the first genocide of the 20th century. In response, Turkey withdrew its ambassador from Vatican City for consultations.

M. Kuramagomedov, a resident of the Tsuntin District of Dagestan, has been found guilty for supplying members of an illegal armed formation (IAF) with foodstuffs and arranging winter refuge bases for them. According to the court's decision, he was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment.

In Stavropol, activist Mikhail Abramyan, who was arrested for seven days, was hospitalized after sentencing. While leaving the courtroom, he lost consciousness.

During the week of April 6-12, 2015, at least 2 persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, one person was killed, and another was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Investigating Committee of Russia carries out the investigation into the criminal case against Shamil Musaev, an advocate who represented the interests of family members of Vakhid Omaev shot dead in 2001 by fighters of the federal troops. The advocate is accused of a large-scale fraud committed in collecting from the federal budget the compensation for non-pecuniary damage in favour of the Omaev family.

In Tbilisi, a woman was killed in the explosion in a residential building. Three other persons were injured.

In Azerbaijan, Seth Kugel, a journalist of The New York Times, has been included in the "persona non grata" list for his trip to Nagorno-Karabakh.

Colleagues of Mikhail Abramyan, an activist of the "Communists of Russia" Party, detained in Stavropol and arrested for seven days, have called his detention a provocation.

Alexander Valov, an editor-in-chief of the "BlogSochi", has claimed he doesn’t agree with the decision of the FSB Border Guard Service, which imposed on him a fine for violation of the border regime. According to Alexander Valov, he does not consider himself guilty.

According to local residents, today, from 5 to 8 p.m. local time, law enforcers made a number of checks in the Leninsky District of Grozny.