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The Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has stated today that the name of the casualty of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Nalchik is Zaur Prokopchuk, not Zalim Shebzukhov.

The names of alleged killers of Boris Nemtsov became known to law enforcement bodies just a day or a day and a half after the crime, the Russian President Vladimir Putin said today in the annual question-and-answer session with Russians.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has challenged the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on payment of 120,000 euros to Larisa Dadaeva, an aunt of the main defendant in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder.

Shamsudin Tsakaev, an advocate of Zaur Dadaev, a defendant in the case of Boris Nemtsov's murder, requests investigators to re-interrogate his client. According to the advocate, Zaur Dadaev told him that the investigators forced him to testify against his colleague Ruslan Geremeev, the "RBC" reports. Initially, Zaur Dadaev has promised to show how Boris Nemtsov was murdered; however, the investigative experiment has failed, the "Rosbalt" reports.

Ensign Shakhmurad Alizade of the Azerbaijani Army died as a result of ceasefire violation committed by the Armenian side. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes has found human rights defender Rasul Jafarov guilty on all charges and sentenced him to 6 years and 6 months of imprisonment.

In Nalchik, in the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO), power agents killed two suspected militants: a man and a woman. The man has been already identified.

At the press conference held in Yerevan on April 15, advocates of arrested members of the "Founding Parliament" have declared that the arrests of the activists in Armenia are an act of political persecution. According to the defence, investigators have unreasonably imposed a ban on the visits of family members to the arrested activists.

Today, the Kirsanov District Court of the Tambov Region has refused to grant a motion to release the Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko on parole (under conditional early relief – CER). The Court has explained the decision by the fact that the ecologist "failed to repent of the committed crime and to behave better during the year served in the penal colony." According to advocate Sergey Loktev, the ecologist's defence is going to file an appeal.

Today, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have unanimously adopted the resolution "To declare the date of April 24 the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day in the European Union."

In Chechnya, the criminal investigation was started in the case against two 17-year-old teenagers suspected of preparations to join an illegal armed formation (IAF) in Syria.

In Chechnya, employees of public institutions have reported that the authorities persistently advised them to take part in the voting organized by the US magazine "Time". According to the voting results, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been recognized the most influential person in the world.

Today, in Gyumri, local residents held a protest action in front of the Russian Consulate. They demanded to extradite Valery Permyakov, accused of massacring the Avetisyan family members, to the Armenian law enforcement bodies.

The police withdrew from the hospital Mikhail Abramyan, the Secretary of the Stavropol branch of the "Communists of Russia" Party, and took him away to some unknown destination. This was reported by colleagues of Mikhail Abramyan.

The Russian Supreme Court (SC) has considered the appeal filed by the "Ecological Watch on Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) against the decision of the Supreme Court of Adygea to liquidate the organization and cancelled the decision of the court of first instance.

The investigation into the calls for separatism instituted against Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova has been completed. According to investigators, when calling on to intergrate Kuban into Ukraine, Darya Polyudova was motivated by her "personal dislike for the incumbent president."

Several dozen rights defenders, politicians, and experts from various countries have made an appeal to leaders of states and called for a boycott of the European Games in Baku in connection with the human rights situation in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani authorities claim that persons, who do not want independent development of the country, make an attempt to put pressure on Azerbaijan.

On April 13, the court station No. 1 chaired by a magistrate of the Central District of the city of Voronezh held a court hearing on the complaint filed by Mass Media Defence Centre (MMDC).

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" intends to appeal against the refusal to initiate criminal proceedings against participants of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Dagestani settlement of Vremenny. After the CTO had been completed, local residents have claimed a large-scale destruction in their village.

On April 14, Bashir Suleimanly, a former political prisoner, the Executive Director of the Centre for Monitoring Elections and Democracy Training (CMEDT), was banned from leaving Azerbaijan. A day earlier, rights defender Elshan Gasanov was also banned from leaving the country.