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The village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, has been invaded by plenty of law enforcers and soldiers; tanks are deployed in the vicinity; and shooting is heard, one of the locals told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In Sochi, animal lovers, ecologists and members of the public charitable organization "Dobromir" held a rally in support of homeless animals. The action brought together about 50 people.

On April 13, an attempt to hold the "Day of Russian Wrath" in Rostov-on-Don resulted in detention of about 10 people. All of them were released from the police after check of documents, said a source from the OVD (Interior Division).

The village of Bereslavka, Kalachov District of Volgograd Region, hosted a rally against the closure of the inpatient ward of the district hospital and reduction of day-and-night and day beds.

A rally was held in Volgograd against extraction of nickel in the Novokhopyorsk District of the Voronezh Region, bordering on the Volgograd Region. The organizers of the action collected signatures to an open letter addressed to the UN against the destruction of the basin of the Khopyor River.

Today, Volgograd hosted an action "Day of Russian Wrath", which was attended by about 50 people, 30 of them are members of nationalist organizations.

Today, the Oktiabrskiy District Court of Krasnodar has considered the issue of freedom restriction in relation to Mikhail Savva, the director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre (SRRC) and ruled to arrest him for two months.

April 16 is the scheduled date to resume flights between Armenia and Syria, said Svetlana Ovannisyan, the spokesperson for the Yerevan office of the "Syrian Airlines".

On April 12, members of the regional branch of the "Volya" (Will) Party held a rally in Volgograd, where they stated a poor development rate of the country's aviation industry, and criticized the actions of the authorities and the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party.

As stated David Kervalidze, the Minister of Agriculture of Georgia, the peasants who suffered from hail on April 10 will receive – as the first-order help – vouchers for pesticides. Within a week, it is planned to define the extent of damage.

On April 11, Farman Sarvan oglu Guseinov, an 18-year-old soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, died after a fall from the third-floor of the hostel of a military unit, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

On April 12, Tbilisi opened the 15th International Tourism Fair housed in the exhibition centre "Expo Georgia", where tourism professionals from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates are showing their services and achievements.

An explosion happened tonight on the motorway near the school in Buinaksk. Local residents report that several persons have been killed.

The US government has published the so-called "Magnitsky List" – the people banned from entering the United States; and their accounts in American banks are frozen. The list includes the natives of Chechnya Lecha Bogatyryov and Kazbek Dukuzov.

Today, an opposition rally in support of the leader of the "Heritage" Party Raffi Ovannisyan was held in Yerevan. Addressing the rally, Mr Ovannisyan said that he would continue his struggle for power, but stressed that this should be done peacefully.

The active phase of the special operation in the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, is over; and law enforcers report about the killing of three members of the armed underground. Local residents confirm that no more shots are heard in the village.

Svetlana Budanova has stated at the trial that she saw in the place of the crime a light-coloured car with a young driver inside in a cap with a big peak.

Anatoly Salin, an employee of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of the Astrakhan Region, is in hospital after he was attacked by an unidentified person with a knife. A check is underway on the fact of the attack, said the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Astrakhan Region.

As reported by Irina Dubovitskaya, the head of the Krasnodar territorial public organization of graduates of Russian higher schools and a member of the Council under the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Mikhail Savva, the director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre" (SRRC), was detained today at 2:00 p.m. in Krasnodar and placed into the pre-trial facility of the FSB.

The Parliament of the Chechen Republic has passed – in the final reading – the law to ban energy drinks in the territory of the republic. It will come into force after signing by the head of Chechnya and publication in printed mass media.