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The criminal case instituted on the basis of publications about the offshore scandal will not be brought to the end, and no resonant resignations and lawsuits will follow it. This opinion was expressed by Armenian experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". According to the experts, the institution of the criminal case is pure formality.

Ramazan Djalaldinov, a resident of Chechnya, who complained in his video appeal to Russian President Putin about corruption in the village of Kenkhi, said that his mother was offered to tell for money to journalists that her son Ramazan was mentally ill.

Ramazan Djalaldinov, the author of the video message to President of Russia about corruption in the Chechen village of Kenkhi, wrote an appeal to Yuri Chaika, the head of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), with a complaint about the insult of him by Ramzan Kadyrov, the acting head of the republic.

Armenian parliamentarians have presented to the government the bill "On Recognition of the Republic of Artsakh". Its consideration is scheduled for May 5, said a governmental source.

Starting from May 5, in connection with the forthcoming May 10 actions related to the Memory and Grief Day, all the mosques of Chechnya are reading the Koran.

In Makhachkala, in the course of a domestic conflict, a relative of a senior police officer has suffered, said a law enforcement source, adding that the man was hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

Last night, the Azerbaijani party violated the ceasefire agreement, by using, in particular, calibre 82 mm mortars, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated. The Armenian MoD has also reported shelling of the border by Azerbaijan.

John Kirby, the spokesman of the US State Department has called on Russian authorities to release the Rostov journalist Sergey Reznik, who was sentenced in January 2015 to three years in prison.

Igor Vasiliev, the leader of the Sochi Branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), has addressed the reception office of President Vladimir Putin asking him to take action in connection with the placement of Alexei Goryachkin, an assistant of Sergey Obukhov, a State Duma MP, into a temporary detention facility (known as the IVS).

Elena Nikitina, the organizer of the April 29 picket in the Lazarevskoye District, is still in the intensive care unit, as prescribed by her doctors. After discharge from the hospital, she intends to appeal to the prosecutor's office with a complaint about policemen's actions, said her advocate.

A new minivan was given to Bashir Pliev, a resident of Ingushetia, who in March was transporting journalists and human rights defenders in the region together with them fell victim to an attack. The minivan will be insured, notes Igor Kalyapin, the leader of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture".

The list of 45 nominees has included Elena Grebenyuk, a journalist from Astrakhan, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", Tuapse ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova, and Polina Zherbetsova, a writer, a political refugee from Chechnya.

Elita Magomadova, a native of Chechnya, managed to enforce the court judgement on the return of her child to her, which her ex-husband had taken away after the divorce. The rights defenders, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", have treated the fact of the return of the child as contrary to the established traditions and the inefficient Russian legal system.

Azerbaijan is accumulating its military equipment and manpower across the whole contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh, Eduard Nalbandyan, the head of the Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA), during his visit to Finland.

Journalist Seimour Khazi, who is serving his prison sentence in Azerbaijan, has become one of the winners of the annual Gerd Bucerius Prize "Free Press of Eastern Europe 2016", awarded by the German "Zeit-Stiftung" Foundation and the Norwegian "Free Speech" Foundation.

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group should provide Armenia with additional security guarantees and find Azerbaijan guilty of aggravating the situation in the Karabakh conflict zone, Armenian political analysts believe.

In the course of the investigation into the attack on journalists and human rights defenders on the Ingush-Chechen border, investigators fail to provide the information about the investigation progress. This was claimed by the victims. They intend to appeal to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for clarification.

During the week of April 25-May 1, 2016, one person was killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Celebration of the Orthodox Easter and May Day in Southern Russia; attacks on dwelling settlements in the Karabakh conflict zone; dispersal of a peaceful protest in Sochi; report about closure of hazardous facility at "Electrozink" Factory in Vladikavkaz; explosion of a bus in Yerevan; deprivation of Sagid Murtazaliev of a mandate of Dagestani MP, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 25-May 1, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The village of Talysh in Nagorno-Karabakh is under constant fire from the Azerbaijani party; its residents are provided with temporary shelter in Stepanakert, said Vilen Petrosyan, the community leader.