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According to the motion filed by Zhanna Nemtsova to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, investigators should question acting Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Senator Suleiman Geremeev, Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma deputy, and seven other persons.

This morning, residents of the Lazarevskoe District of Sochi have gathered for a picket against the closure of the pedestrian crossing, which led to the sea coast. According to them, the police violently dispersed the protest action. During the picket, policemen detained Alexei Goryachkin, an assistant to a State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).

The decision of the Astrakhan court to refuse conditional early relief (CER) for Khaiser Djemilev can be explained by the political position of his father Mustafa Djemilev, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar movement. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by advocate Nikolai Polozov.

There are no regular military units of Armenia and Armenian military vehicles in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the Defence Army "brilliantly performs its tasks." This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" by Artsrun Ovannisyan, Press Secretary for the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD).

At the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1, where Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the movement "Muslim Unity", is being kept in custody, his advocate Elchin Sadygov was demanded to present a written permission from the Prosecutor's Office for a meeting with his client. The advocate has treated the request as a violation of the law.

The Azerbaijani side has resumed shelling of combat positions of the Defence Army in the north-east direction. This was reported in the evening summary message of the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The former chief of the ROVD (District Interior Division) for the Shamil District of Dagestan, who retired a year ago, was shot and killed. The law enforcement authorities are engaged in checking the version of involvement in the murder of members of the armed underground.

Policemen try to unfoundedly register at the police station a woman from Stavropol, who is Russian by origin. This was reported by advocate Roza Magomedova, a staff member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

As stated by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh, the deployment by Azerbaijani Armed Forces of military facilities in dwelling settlements is a violation of the international law.

The Armenian Armed Forces delivered targeted fire at civilian residences with the use of cluster weapons, said the spokesman of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), calling on the international community to condemn "Armenia's ignoring the ceasefire."

In the Georgian resort city of Kobuleti, five parsons have been detained while trying to sell radioactive uranium, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) reports today.

The decision to ban Vera Savchenko's departure from Russia in the context of her federal search has been cancelled.

On April 27, Leyla Semyonova and Sima Kulova, who were delegated by over 300 victims of the fire in the Turgenev marketplace in Cherkessk, were received by Kazimir Botashov, the Minister of Internal Affaires of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR).

Today, the Astrakhan Regional Court has upheld the decision of the first instance court to refuse conditional early relief (CER) for Khaiser Djemilev, a son of Mustafa Djemilev, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar movement.

In the evening of April 27, at the Russian-Ukrainian border, there was an attempt to detain Vera Savchenko, and FSB agents seized her passport. After the incident, the woman left the checkpoint in a car with diplomatic state licence plates and went to Rostov-on-Don.

Today, near-border villages have been shelled in Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh. One killed person and eight others wounded were reported.

The Azerbaijani government fails to comply with its obligations in the field of human rights, and there are serious problems with the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Azerbaijan. This was stated by participants of the forum "The role and place of international courts in the legal system of Azerbaijan."

In Volgograd, several families with many children are not able to use the land plots allocated to them, since they are not suitable for construction. This problem was discussed during a roundtable held on April 27. Officials were also invited to take part in the roundtable.

The procedure for extradition of Nadezhda Savchenko, a Ukrainian aviator, sentenced in Russia to 22 years of imprisonment, has been launched. This was reported by Mark Feighin, an advocate of Nadezhda Savchenko. His client has already received the documents to be filled in.

A former policeman Artyom Khatukhov said that today he was beaten up in the city of Terek in the building of the supplementary office of the "Sberbank" (Savings Bank). The police said that his application was being checked.