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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported on an attempt of sabotage undertaken by the Azerbaijani armed forces at the contact line.

The advocate Yalcin Imanov has failed to visit in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who is under arrest starting from December 5, 2014.

In the course of the meeting initiated by the Gyumri Journalists' Club "Asparez" and the media centre founded by the NGOs' project "Social Club of Journalists", Armenian lawyers and rights defenders have discussed the progress of the investigation into the murder committed in Gyumri, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Law enforcers have reported on the involvement of Vadim Shogenov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, killed during a special operation conducted in March 2014, in the creation of a criminal armed grouping. A criminal case has been instituted on the above fact.

An advocate of Zaur Dadaev accused of the murder of Boris Nemtsov has prepared an official complaint about illegal methods being used to pressure his client. This was reported by the "Kommersant". Investigators promise to verify the complaints about kidnapping filed by Zaur Dadaev, the "Izvestia" reports.

Azerbaijan will not start any large-scale combat actions; however, armed incidents will occasionally take place on the contact line. This was stated by participants of a "round table" held in Yerevan.

In Moscow, the Independent Press Centre has hosted the press conference titled: "A person in prison: the right to the protection of life and health". The main topic of the press-conference was devoted to the conditions of detention of sick people in Russian prisons.

Till present, the introduction of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the Untsukul District of Dagestan has no immediate impact on local residents. Meanwhile, starting from March 30, the local residents observe a significant increase in the number of law enforcers in the vicinity of the village of Gimry, and they report that some of military vehicles are sent to the mountains.

In Sochi, members of the public commission have detected a fact of looting of the cottage village of "Veseloe-Psou" designed for Olympic settlers. There are a large number of empty houses in Sochi, while 30,000 people are put on the waiting list for social housing, the public commission members have noted as detected in the course of the commission's activities.

In the evening of April 2, the police detained and released after about three hours Andzor Akhokhov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who organized an action against the 2014 Olympic Games. The activist has become a defendant in a new criminal case.

Today, the Krasnodar Territorial Court has upheld the appeal complaint lodged by the builder Mardiros Demerchyan against his conviction and returned the case to the Sochi Prosecutor's Office.

Today, an explosion device has gone off in Guliev Street in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR); there is no information about victims.

Circassian activists have back their memory ribbons dated to the 150th anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War: the examination has found no extremism in them.

Adlan Bitsoev, a native of Chechnya, who was detained along with four other persons on charges of drug dealing, was taken out by power agents from Moscow to Cherkessk and subjected to torture their, his defenders assert.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that the Yerevan Mayoralty violated two articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), when prohibited the Helsinki Committee of Armenia to hold a march in the city centre in memory of the death of a man in a police station.

On April 1, the Office of the Council of Europe (CE) Commissioner for Human Rights issued a text of the appeal prepared by Nils Muižnieks to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) concerning the cases of Anar Mamedli and Rasul Jafarov. In his appeal, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights expresses his concern over the prosecution of the activists.

While the Moscow City Court (MCC) was considering the appeals filed by advocates of five defendants in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, the very defendants and their advocates made statements of non-involvement in the crime.

This morning, regime of counterterrorist operation (CTO) has been introduced in the Untsukul and Gergebil Districts of Dagestan by the decision of the operational headquarters of the republic.

The bed of the Moscow River is being examined by divers in search of the pistol, from which Boris Nemtsov was killed. Pistols that have been found in the water earlier appeared to be irrelevant to the case.

The defence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is accused of organizing the terror act during the marathon in Boston in 2013, has completed the presentation of its pieces of evidence. On March 31, the court questioned as witnesses Mark Spencer, an independent expert, and Elaina Graff, an FBI agent.