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In Cherkessk, about 100 persons took part in the dance event "Adyghe Djegu", dedicated to the Day of Circassian Flag, which is celebrated today.

Today, the Rostov Region has launched the action called "Legal Train". Within the action, lawyers of different legal spheres will provide consultations to prisoners in all prisons in the Rostov Region.

Today, the Central District Court of Sochi has pronounced the verdict to Oleg Sheveiko, the former Chief Architect. The Court has sentenced the former official to 1 year and 8 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of settlement for abuse of power. The defence did not agree with the verdict.

The authorities of South Ossetia have released three residents of the Georgian villages, who were arrested for crossing the administrative border. This was reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia.

The Pyatigorsk Garrison Military Court has found Maxim Svensky, a former FSB officer, guilty of a road traffic accident that killed four persons and sentenced him to 5 years and 7 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of settlement.

In Azerbaijan, Khayam Asif oglu Bairamov, an 18-year-old soldier, is suspected of stabbing with a knife Kamran Firdovsi oglu Mamedov, his 19-year-old colleague, who died from the injury.

Today, the Magistrate Court of the Presnya District of Moscow fined the Association "Golos" (Vote) 300,000 roubles for refusing to get registered as a "foreign agent". Liliya Shibanova, Executive Director of the Association "Golos", was fined 100,000 roubles.

Today, in the Gldani Prison No. 8, a hunger strike was stopped, the participants of which demanded to reconsider their cases and conditions of detention.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of Tsarnaev brothers, will be detained by the police in case if she arrives in the USA to attend the trial against her survived son. Today, the authorities of the country have issued a warrant for her arrest.

For the first time, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the law enforcement agencies of "Kadyrov's" Chechnya are responsible for kidnapping of a person. This was emphasized by the experts when they commented on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights pronounced on the case of Abdul-Yazit Askhabov kidnapped in Chechnya.

Leonid Korzhinek, Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory, has inspected the conditions of detention of persons suspected of committing crimes in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 2 in the city of Armavir. The inspection has revealed material and living, health care and other discrepancies with the legislation that infringe upon the rights of persons in custody. This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office.

A man killed today in Dagestan was involved in massacre in the Karabudakhkent District in March 2011, when five hunters were killed. This was reported by a representative of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

One of the possible reasons for decrease in the number of casualties of the conflict in North Caucasus was the change in the tactics of the armed underground. Militants quitted organizing terror acts in crowded places and started committing point attacks on representatives of law enforcement agencies and authorities. This was stated by political analyst Emil Panin.

On April 23 and 24, residents of Nagorno-Karabakh paid tribute to memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire by torchlight marching and laying wreaths at the memorial in Stepanakert.

On April 23, in Moscow, the Central House of Writers hosted the evening dedicated to the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

On the Day of Memory of victims of the Armenian Genocide, Armenia and foreign countries hold mourning events, and the central event among them was the large mourning march in Yerevan to the memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Tsitsernakaberd.

Today, Astrakhan activists held another series of solo pickets in support of opposition leader and blogger Alexei Navalny, the case against whom in connection with "Kirovles" is under consideration in Kirov.

The strike of advocates of Kabardino-Balkaria will not be started, since, during the meeting of the leaders of the Advocates' Chamber with representatives of the law enforcement agencies, it was agreed to respect the rights of representative of the advocate profession in exercising their professional activities.

Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijani newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talyshes), has made a demand to disqualify and punish the judge in his case. According to Hilal Mamedov's version, the judge openly supports prosecutors, advocate Khalid Bagirov reports.

In Azerbaijan, the Committee to protect the rights of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talyshes) held a picket in front of the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, timed to the next court session on the Hilal Mamedov's case. The protest action was attended by about 30 persons.