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In Yerevan, supporters of the "Founding Parliament" held a protest action under the slogan "Freedom for political prisoners". Participants of the march walked down Bagramyan Avenue and stopped near all the public agencies to voice their demand.

Vyacheslav Starodubets, an author of the materials about Derbent, has claimed that investigators fail to react to his numerous complaints and delay the investigation into the case of his beating.

Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) administration reshuffle can be explained by the Kremlin's desire to deprive local officials of the chance to embezzle the funds allocated for the construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge. This opinion was expressed by political analysts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

Lieutenant Colonel Vardan Vardanyan, sentenced to five years in prison in the case of "Million Mask March", has declared a hunger strike.

The Rostov Regional Court (RRC), which is considering an appeal against the sentence to journalist and blogger Sergey Reznik, has refused to study the written evidence in the case. The judge has announced the end of the judiciary inquiry and transition to the debate phase.

Khavazh-Bagaudin Aushev, a son of the co-chairman of the Supreme Board of the Ingush public movement "Mekhk-Khel", who was detained by the police, has become a figurant of the criminal case about the hijacking a foreign-made car from the car park of the shopping centre in Samara.

Residents of the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia reported that local young villagers were recruited for war in Syria. In response to these complaints, Levan Izoriya, the deputy head of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), stated on April 27 that recruiters are outside Georgia.

On April 27, in Moscow, activists of the youth wing of the "RPR-PARNAS" held a series of solo pickets in front of the building of the Chechen Representative Office. The protestors demanded to question top-ranking Chechen officials and power agents in Boris Nemtsov murder case.

Khasmagomed Charanov, who was killed in Dagestan by power agents, used to be, according to their information, the leader of "Aukh" militant grouping. He was wanted in connection with the attacks on law enforcers and extortion of money from businessmen.

Detainee Khavazh-Bagaudin Aushev has been convoyed to Samara by staff members of the temporary operational group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

Investigators have submitted to the court a criminal case against five residents of Astrakhan, accused of beating citizens of "non-Slavic" appearance. There are six victims in the case, including citizens of Vietnam and South Africa.

In Sochi, the Saveliev family has appealed to the City Prosecutor with a request to challenge the court's decision on their eviction from the cottage in the village built for Olympic settlers.

In the Rostov Region, the number of temporary accommodation centres (TACs) for refugees from Donbas was reduced over the period of three weeks from 15 to 8. Now, they accommodate 1609 persons, including 548 children.

The Stavropol Territorial Court has upheld the verdict to Kislovodsk Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov on charges of drug dealing. His defence stated the intention to file a cassation and a lawsuit to the European Court of Human Rights.

The journalist Khadija Ismayilova, now under arrest in Azerbaijan, has won the Swedish National Press Club’s Freedom of Speech Award for 2015 named after Anna Politkovskaya.

Akhmed-Bashir Aushev, a co-chairman of the Supreme Board of the Ingush public movement "Mekhk-Khel", has reported detention of his son. According to his version, the young man was beaten up.

Today, the Staropromyslovskiy District Court of Grozny has passed its verdict in the case of Sultan Daurbekov, accused of killing his daughter. Daurbekov was sentenced to 7 years in a high security colony.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has left the complaint lodged by Rasul Jafarov, a rights defender, convicted in Azerbaijan, against the rejection of his civil lawsuit against the Bank Respublika, without satisfaction.

During the week of April 20-26, 2015, at least 3 persons were 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.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a group of residents has started collecting signatures under the online petition to commute the sentence for three young women, who danced near the WWII memorial museum "Malaya Zemlya" (Small Land) in Novorossiysk.