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The human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) has sent a letter to Gevorg Kostanyan, the General Prosecutor of Armenia. In its letter, the HRW made a statement in support of the arrested activists of the opposition movement "Founding Parliament".

In Sochi, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has seen signs of deliberate destruction of property in fire in the dilapidated house and brought the case to the police.

On April 28, a cassation complaint against the verdict to Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, convicted in Chechnya on charges of drug possession, was submitted by the Committee against Torture (CaT) to the presidium of the Supreme Court of Chechnya.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has offered his help in the inquiry into the murder of Boris Nemtsov and expressed his readiness to testify. The advocates for the children of the slain politician insist on that.

Relatives of Ruslan Etezov, a resident of the village of Tyrnyauz, have turned to rights defenders claiming that he was tortured and beating by law enforcers.

Under the amnesty on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, South Ossetia will pardon and release 10 earlier convicted citizens of the republic.

During the debates in the Rostov Regional Court, advocates of journalist and blogger Sergey Reznik, accused of false denunciation and insult of the authorities, have claimed the contradictions in the verdict announced by the court of first instance.

Investigators suspect Eugenia Vasilieva, the former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), of fraud while selling agricultural Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Leningradskoe" in the Krasnodar Territory, controlled by the Russian MoD, the newspaper "Kommersant" reports.

In Tbilisi, in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia, activists held an action with the demand to comply with the country's neutrality and restore diplomatic relations with Russia.

In Makhachkala, the authorities have dismantled the billboards with the portrait of Joseph Stalin, installed on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Gevorg Safaryan, a member of the "Founding Parliament" movement, accused in plotting riots in Armenia, has stopped his hunger strike.

On April 29, the Union of Journalists of Dagestan granted the "Golden Eagle" Award to four journalists and one creative team for their activities in 2014.

Today, Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC), has called on to release the young women, who danced near the WWII memorial museum "Malaya Zemlya" (Small Land) in Novorossiysk.

Relatives of the five persons sentenced to life imprisonment in the criminal case of the attack on Nalchik have appealed to human rights activists with complaints about violations, including complaints about the detention of the prisoners in one-man cells and everyday inconveniences.

The Lenin District Court of Stavropol has sentenced K.M. Djamaldinov to three years of imprisonment for involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF) in Syria. This has been reported today by the Prosecutor's Office of the Stavropol Territory.

Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes chaired by Judge Shakyar Mamedova has listened to the final speech of the public prosecutor in the case against Faradj Kerimli, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, accused of drug trafficking in Azerbaijan.

The Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has appealed to Azerbaijan with a request to detain and extradite to Georgia ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili, who arrived in Baku to take part in the 3rd Global Open Society Forum.

When examining the place of the road traffic accident, the police found 826 cartridge shells in the passenger compartment of one of two cars, the drivers of which were hospitalized after the road traffic accident.

In the morning of April 28, in Nalchik, an improvised explosive device (IED) was found at a park flower bed. In the evening, it was defused at the place.

In Yerevan, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute opened to the public after four years of renovation in the territory of the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex.