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The held an action on April 15 in front of the courthouse in Tbilisi demanding freedom for Tsotne Mamulashvili, a painter and the expert of the "NATO Information Centre", accused of robbing a pawnshop: about 10 protesters exposed posters: "Free Tsotne Mamulashvili!" in the English and Georgian languages.

In the course of a special operation conducted in the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, power agents delivered random fire and vandalized property in houses, local residents complain.

In the vicinity of the Southern Bus Station in Makhachkala, policemen detained two girls, one of whom was in a Muslim headgear. The girls were taken to an unknown destination, as Fatima Tarasova, an activist of the Dagestani Republic's Public Association (DRPA) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the offices of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" are searched by employees of the chief department of economic security and counteracting corruption (known as GUEBiPK) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Investigatory Department of the above MIA within the criminal case opened against the former chairman of the board of directors Akhmed Bilalov and Director General Alexander Nevsky, reports the MIA.

As reported by Eduard Gusov, senior assistant to the head of the Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for North Ossetia, Valentina Tedeeva, the chief doctor of the maternity ward of the Republic's Hospital, was placed into the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in connection with the official indictment of selling a human.

The Chechen Republic has held festivities to mark the fourth anniversary of the cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime. The main events took place in Grozny, where security measures were essentially strengthened on this occasion; and the centre of the city was blocked for motor traffic.

In Krasnodar, agents of the territorial department of the FSB (Russia's Federal Security Bureau) have made another search of the office of the Southern Regional Resource Centre (SRRC) and seized documents and electronic data carriers, said the employees of the Centre.

On April 15, the hunger strike was announced by 70 inmates of Gldani Prison No. 8 in Georgia, who demand reconsideration of their cases.

The police of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) are seeking the criminals who killed Georgy Mogilko, a World War II veteran this morning in Nalchik. The murder has caused a broad resonance in the city.

Employees of the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia are inspecting the MIA of Dagestan in the context of the criminal case opened against high-ranking law enforcement officials, said a source from the local MIA.

Today, the defendants Arman Bagdasaryan and Norair Airapetyan, accused of beating military doctors in the parking lot of the Yerevan "Harsnaqar" Restaurant, presented their evidence to the court; therefore, the interrogation of the defendants was over.

A series of pickets in support of the oppositional leader Alexei Navalny, who is accused of a large-scale embezzlement, was held today in Astrakhan.

Djanetta Selivanova, who was detained during searches in the Dagestani village of Shamilkala, was today sentenced to ten days of administrative arrest, said a villager Raisa Ismailova.

Natives of the village of Shyky, Cherek District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have decided to restore their village. At a meeting on April 14 in Nalchik they elected the organizing committee of five members, and instructed them to draft the charter of the future village Shyky.

The Armenian armed forces have broken the ceasefire in the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan. According to the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh, on April 7-13, they registered 250 cases of ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan at the contact line of the troops.

Yesterday, on April 14, in the park opposite the marine station in Sochi, about 50 local residents held a rally against the build-up by traders of the resort land occupied by parks, mini-parks and green areas for general use.

Builders are completing the cleaning of the facade of the high-rise building in the complex "Grozny-City" damaged by fire on April 3. The works were carried out with the help of the technical means brought from Turkey.

During the week of April 8-14, 2013, at least 20 people suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including 11 casualties and nine wounded persons. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On April 14, Nalchik hosted a charity exhibition-sale, where 40 drawings of children of Syrian immigrants living in the republic were presented.

Inauguration of Serzh Sargsyan, accompanied by protest action of supporters of Raffi Ovannisyan; bankruptcy of "Express" Bank and dispute about the order of electing head of the republic in Dagestan; termination of inquiry into GIBDD bribery case in Volgograd; disqualification of judges of Krymsk District Court on the flood case; funeral of the first president of North Ossetia; sentence and arrest of figurant in resonant crimes in Stavropol Territory, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of April 8-14, 2013, prepared by the"Caucasian Knot".