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Today, relatives of Yuri Budanov supported the position of prosecutors and asked the jury to find Yusup Temerkhanov guilty of killing the ex-Colonel.

Today, Rasim Ibadanov, a participant of the Kizlyar wedding party with Islamic flags, was delivered to the OVD (Interior Division) connection with his interview, a video record of which was earlier posted on the "YouTube". At least, one of the participants of the Kizlyar wedding party has been severely beaten and in need of medical care, a local resident reports.

A source from law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic said that they would not strengthen their checkpoint near the administrative border with Ingushetia and regard the actions of their Ingush counterparts who had announced construction of the block-post near the village of Arshty as provocative.

German doctors have found mercury in the blood of Akhmed Bilalov, the level of which is several times higher than normal. Akhmed Bilalov himself has confirmed the fact of his poisoning with mercury.

In Krasnodar, at a rally in support of Mikhail Savva, the director of grant programmes at the "Southern Regional Resource Centre", about a hundred signatures were collected to the petition demanding to stop prosecuting the arrested human rights activist, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Ten beaten participants of the wedding party have been brought to the OVD (Interior Division) of the city of Kizlyar, Magomed Kartashov, a member of the NGO "Union of the Just", among them, said an eyewitness of the incident. In its turn, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) states detention of the members of the extremist organization "Hizb-ut-Tahrir".

As reported by Eka Azarashvili, the press speaker of the Central Election Commission (CEC), during the election of an MP in the Bagdati Constituency violations were recorded; they were confirmed also by activists of the "United National Movement".

The Supreme Court (SC) of Adygea has withdrawn from consideration the complaint lodged by Mukharbi Tkharkakhov, a co-chair of the movement "For Future of Adygea", against the decision of the Maikop City Court, which failed to satisfy his complaint against the Territorial Election Commission (TEC) of Maikop, the Office of the SC reported on April 26.

Today, the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd Region has held a protest rally "We are against bad roads", where signatures were collected to petitions to Governor Bozhenov and President Putin.

In Tskhinvali, after six days of hunger strike, Lyudmila Usovich, the mother of Georgy Zasseev, a citizen of South Ossetia, who is serving his life sentence in Gldani Prison No. 8 in Georgia. The mother went on her hunger strike in solidarity with her son and other prisoners who did the same at the jail.

Employees of the centre to combat extremism of the MIA of Kabardino-Balkaria, acting in cooperation with local FSB agents, found a "shahid belt" in the house of a woman in the city Chegem, the MIA has reported.

On April 26, mass detentions of believers took place in the Moscow Muslim community "Darul Arqam". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a community member that the Imams of the mosque preached the ideology of moderate Islam and called for interethnic accord.

As reported today by the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), this night in the Khiv District of Dagestan, Bagir Agabaev, the leader of "Khiv" militant grouping, born in 1979, and his accomplice Albert Yarov, born in 1982, were killed.

Oksana Mikhalkina, the victim's representative, has treated the jury's verdict in the case of the fight near the Shopping Centre (SC) "Europeiskiy" as lawful and fair. However, Darya Trenina, the advocate for the defendant, does not agree with her.

Johar Tsarnaev, a suspect of committing the terror act in Boston, was read a statement of his rights; after which he ceased testifying. His defence will be headed by the lawyer Miriam Conrad, who earlier defended in court the Briton, who had tried to blow up a Paris-Miami aircraft. According to sources from US authorities, the bombs in Boston could be triggered remotely, while Tsarnaev brothers had planned a terror act in New York.

The executive authorities of Baku said NO to the notification of the Advisory Majlis of Democratic Forces (AMDF) about the action on April 28 with a demand to hold free presidential election, which was scheduled in one of three places offered by this oppositional association; instead it was offered to hold the event in the outskirts of the city. Activists of the AMDF have regarded the refusal as a violation of the freedom of assembly and postponed the rally.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) has partially granted the appeal complaint filed by businessman Mukhammed Gurbanov and Nadir Mamedov, the husband of his daughter and his assistant, who were arrested on charges of rendering resistance to representatives of power. The SC has mitigated their sentence and replaced their imprisonment for the conditional sentence. Today, Mukhammed Gurbanov and Nadir Mamedov were released in the courtroom.

The District Prosecutor's Office of the Kvemo Kartli Region has detained former inspectors of the Security Division of the Rustavi Prison No. 16 on charges of beating and torturing prisoners.

Investigators filed a new charge against the Deputy Chairman of the "Musavat" Party, who was arrested in connection with the riots in Ismailly. At present, he faces charges not of organizing actions aimed at disturbing public order, but of organizing mass riots accompanied by violence and pogroms.

The jury has found Bekkhan Rizvanov, the defendant in the case of the fight near the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeisky" (European) in Moscow, guilty of attempted murder and not deserving of leniency.