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The Zamoskvorechye District Court of Moscow has announced a verdict of guilty against Magomed Tochiev, a native of Ingushetia, who was charged with using violence against an OMON (riot police) fighter during the incident with mosque-goers near the Historic Mosque.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has upheld the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of arrest earlier announced against Khamzat Bakhaev and cancelled by the Moscow City Court because of procedural violations.

The National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported the detention of four supporters of militants during a special operation in the village of Stary Cherek in Kabardino-Balkaria.

In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, during the week from March 30 to April 5, 2015, at least one person was lost; and no information about injuries was reported. These are the results of calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The increasing number of positive reviews on the activities of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and the growth of public confidence in him are the result of the TV propaganda and strengthening of anti-Western sentiments in Russia against the background of the situation in Ukraine. This was stated by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, a regime of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) has been cancelled in the village of Stary Cherek, four hours after its introduction. A house with a yard has been blocked as a part of the special operation. This was reported by a source in the law enforcement bodies.

Series of accidents on power lines and other emergencies in Southern Russia caused by hurricane; decision of Moscow City Court on complaints against arrest of figurants in Nemtsov's murder case; verdict of jurors in BORN case in Moscow; Ukraine's refusal to give Mikhail Saakashvili out to Georgia; sentence in murder case of Dagestani journalist Akhmedilov; protest action demanding to compensate inflation losses in Baku, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 30-April 5, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Journalist Vyacheslav Starodubets beaten in Derbent has been hospitalized with multiple bruises and hematomas. He associates the attack on him with his professional activities.

In Tbilisi, the "Caucasian House", World Vision, the HALO Trust and other NPOs have presented their project of peacekeeping activities in Southern Caucasus. Until April 16, the British Embassies in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan accept applications from NPOs for funding of new projects in the regions of Southern Caucasus.

Five persons involved in the attack on activists of the "Founding Parliament" in Gyumri have been brought to administrative responsibility.

Locals report that today power agents conduct house-by-house checks in the villages of Maidanskoe, Balakhani and Zirani of the Untsukul District of Dagestan.

In the evening on April 3, in the village of Untsukul, the armoured car of Gasan Gasanov, a member of the Dagestani Parliament, was shelled; the MP was not hurt.

The Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia has reported that they received the results of the forensic examinations related to the massacre of the Avetisyan family in the city of Gyumri.

The defender of Abdullah Getagazov, a native of Ingushetia, states that his client is illegally kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of detention facility No. 12 of the city of Zelenograd. The SIZO bosses refute the statement.

The woman was detained on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm to her three-month daughter. According to investigators, at night on April 2, 2015, the 25-year-old resident of Astrakhan, while in the state of alcoholic intoxication, inflicted "a lot of punches to the head and torso of her three-month daughter."

Asrudi Musaev, a resident of Chechnya, has been sentenced for aiding and abetting fraud with maternity capital, despite the numerous contradictions in the testimonies of witnesses and suspicious coincidences in the interrogation protocols. This has been stated by his defence in the complaint filed to the Prosecutor's Office.

The court has sentenced Arthur Mirzoyan, a native of Armenia, to two years in a colony-settlement for shelling the building of the Turkish Embassy in Moscow. The defence has disagreed with the verdict and insists that Mirzoyan has shelled the embassy in order to draw attention to the problem of recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

According to experts, the treaty on alliance and integration between the Russian Federation and South Ossetia will lead to improved living standards in the republic. Meanwhile, the experts emphasize that the treaty does not stipulate the merger of South Ossetia and Russia.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has included the Rostov city public organization "Eco-Logic" into the register of NGOs acting as foreign agents.

The Yerevan Mayoralty has refuses to sanction the rally of the opposition movement scheduled for April 26. Members of the "Founding Parliament" treat the decision as unlawful.