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Soslan Zhigunov, a witness to the death of Murat Borlakov, a detained resident of Karachay-Cherkessia in the Ust-Djeguta ROVD (District Interior Division), who was questioned at the trial in the case against five policemen, has changed his testimony given at the preliminary investigation stage.

The Court has announced the decision to take into custody until May 10 Yakub Khashagulgov, a resident of Ingushetia, detained after the acquittal on charges of aiding and abetting militants.

The Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) has asked the Prosecutor of Dagestan to take personal control over the investigation into the case on the attack on Vyacheslav Starodubets, the author of the materials about Derbent.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has received a complaint against non-admission of advocate to Zaur Dadaev, a native of Chechnya, involved in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, three of the four residents of the village of Stary Cherek detained during the special operation, have been sent home.

During the counterterrorist operation, staff members of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan detained seven citizens of the republic, suspected of involvement in hostilities as members of terrorist groupings of "Taliban" and "Islamic State".

Evgeny Vitishko, a Krasnodar ecologist, who went on hunger strike in a penal settlement-colony of the Tambov Region, is being kept at a common brigade, and he continues to attend mandatory works. According to the advocate, Evgeny Vitishko refuses to write a formal letter of protest.

During the search of the apartment of Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, accused of involvement in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, law enforcers have found weapons. This was reported by Zaurbek Sadakhanov, an advocate of another defendant in the case, with reference to the investigators.

Today, advocates of Shagit Gubashev, Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, and Khamzat Bakhaev, accused of involvement in the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, have challenged the court's decision to re-arrest them.

On April 8, the court extended the arrest of Valery Permyakov under investigation in the case of the murder of the Avetisyan family members in Gyumri. At the court session, two new items were added to the charges against the soldier.

On April 8, at the trial in the case against journalist Boris Stomakhin accused of public justification of the terror acts in Volgograd, the court questioned two people. A former cellmate of the defendant told the court that the journalist expresses his joy about the terror act in Volgograd.

Asya Khandokhova, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has claimed being subjected to pressure by power agents during the incident with blocking of a shop in Baksan. The young woman has also added that she fears provocations in her address.

Shamsudin Tsakaev, an advocate of Zaur Dadaev, one of the defendants accused of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, has sent a complaint to the Basmanny District Court of Moscow about the barriers in the defence of his client.

In Chechnya, Sultan Daurbekov, a defendant in the case of "honour killing", has told the court that he had killed his daughter in the heat of passion. When justifying the crime, one of the witnesses referred to the statements of Ramzan Kadyrov, the HRC "Memorial" reports.

The Krasnodar Court has dismissed the appeal filed by an advocate of Khaiser Djemilev about the decision to extend the period of detention of his client. The Court has also formed a jury.

Three versions of the murder of Boris Nemtsov originally voiced by investigators and officials have been reduced to the arrest of natives of Chechnya and the search for the organizers of the crime in the territory of the region.

The trial in the case against the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (BORN), which takes place in the Moscow Regional Court, has been postponed. The Court decided to wait for characteristics for the three defendants to be received from the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

In the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, policemen found a policeman shot dead and a wounded resident of the republic.

In the capital of Armenia, about 200 members of the "Founding Parliament" carry out a protest action with the demand to stop the prosecution of activists of the opposition movement.

The Moscow Regional Court has started discussing the jury's verdict in the case of the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN). The psychiatric examination has found out that two defendants are healthy and aware of their own actions.