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The Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia has reported that they received the results of the forensic examinations related to the massacre of the Avetisyan family in the city of Gyumri.

The defender of Abdullah Getagazov, a native of Ingushetia, states that his client is illegally kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of detention facility No. 12 of the city of Zelenograd. The SIZO bosses refute the statement.

The woman was detained on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm to her three-month daughter. According to investigators, at night on April 2, 2015, the 25-year-old resident of Astrakhan, while in the state of alcoholic intoxication, inflicted "a lot of punches to the head and torso of her three-month daughter."

Asrudi Musaev, a resident of Chechnya, has been sentenced for aiding and abetting fraud with maternity capital, despite the numerous contradictions in the testimonies of witnesses and suspicious coincidences in the interrogation protocols. This has been stated by his defence in the complaint filed to the Prosecutor's Office.

The court has sentenced Arthur Mirzoyan, a native of Armenia, to two years in a colony-settlement for shelling the building of the Turkish Embassy in Moscow. The defence has disagreed with the verdict and insists that Mirzoyan has shelled the embassy in order to draw attention to the problem of recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

According to experts, the treaty on alliance and integration between the Russian Federation and South Ossetia will lead to improved living standards in the republic. Meanwhile, the experts emphasize that the treaty does not stipulate the merger of South Ossetia and Russia.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has included the Rostov city public organization "Eco-Logic" into the register of NGOs acting as foreign agents.

The Yerevan Mayoralty has refuses to sanction the rally of the opposition movement scheduled for April 26. Members of the "Founding Parliament" treat the decision as unlawful.

On March 30, the Ukrainian media posted the first reports on unmarked graves in Rostov-on-Don. According to the "New Region", bodies of Russian militiamen killed in Donbas are massively buried in Rostov-on-Don.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported on an attempt of sabotage undertaken by the Azerbaijani armed forces at the contact line.

The advocate Yalcin Imanov has failed to visit in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who is under arrest starting from December 5, 2014.

In the course of the meeting initiated by the Gyumri Journalists' Club "Asparez" and the media centre founded by the NGOs' project "Social Club of Journalists", Armenian lawyers and rights defenders have discussed the progress of the investigation into the murder committed in Gyumri, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Law enforcers have reported on the involvement of Vadim Shogenov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, killed during a special operation conducted in March 2014, in the creation of a criminal armed grouping. A criminal case has been instituted on the above fact.

An advocate of Zaur Dadaev accused of the murder of Boris Nemtsov has prepared an official complaint about illegal methods being used to pressure his client. This was reported by the "Kommersant". Investigators promise to verify the complaints about kidnapping filed by Zaur Dadaev, the "Izvestia" reports.

Azerbaijan will not start any large-scale combat actions; however, armed incidents will occasionally take place on the contact line. This was stated by participants of a "round table" held in Yerevan.

In Moscow, the Independent Press Centre has hosted the press conference titled: "A person in prison: the right to the protection of life and health". The main topic of the press-conference was devoted to the conditions of detention of sick people in Russian prisons.

Till present, the introduction of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the Untsukul District of Dagestan has no immediate impact on local residents. Meanwhile, starting from March 30, the local residents observe a significant increase in the number of law enforcers in the vicinity of the village of Gimry, and they report that some of military vehicles are sent to the mountains.

In Sochi, members of the public commission have detected a fact of looting of the cottage village of "Veseloe-Psou" designed for Olympic settlers. There are a large number of empty houses in Sochi, while 30,000 people are put on the waiting list for social housing, the public commission members have noted as detected in the course of the commission's activities.

In the evening of April 2, the police detained and released after about three hours Andzor Akhokhov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who organized an action against the 2014 Olympic Games. The activist has become a defendant in a new criminal case.

Today, the Krasnodar Territorial Court has upheld the appeal complaint lodged by the builder Mardiros Demerchyan against his conviction and returned the case to the Sochi Prosecutor's Office.