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Today, Ilgar Mamedov, the chairman of the public movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), was left in custody by today's ruling of the court, which refused to release him on bail, Fuad Agaev, Mamedov's advocate, has reported.

Two residents of Chechnya, who had placed on the Internet a video of the fire in a skyscraper in the complex "Grozny City", have been sent for repairs of the building for their comments on the accident.

The "Express" Bank from Makhachkala has been declared bankrupt by the decision of the Arbitration Court of Dagestan, said the lawyer Rafik Mamatov.

In the Komsomolsky Microdistrict of Krasnodar, Vadim Pashaev, 35, a local resident, was beaten. According to his story, he was beaten up by people in Cossack uniform, after he refused to produce his documents to them in the absence of a policeman.

In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from April 1 to April 7, 2013, at least 17 people suffered; of them four persons were killed and 13 more were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the village of Khaishi, Tetrittskaroy District of Georgia, locals broke into the farms, exploited by Iranian farmers. Georgian peasants believe that the authorities had secretly delivered to the tenants the land plots that they consider to be their own property.

Today, the Prikubansky Krasnodar District Court has to consider a lawsuit filed on behalf of the shareholders of the six-storey building at No. 9 Kadetskaya Street on suspension of the executive proceeding about demolition of the apartment building.

Fire in "Grozny City" complex of high-rise buildings in the Chechen capital; over a dozen injured in mine explosions in Ingushetia and Chechnya; negotiations of Agrarian Ministries of Georgia result in agreement on supply of Georgian foodstuffs to Russian market; arrest on suspicion of involvement in murder of Deputy of Krasnodar Territory Legislative Assembly; three mass brawls in the Stavropol Territory, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of April 1-7, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot.

The city of Stavropol has hosted a sanctioned rally of the nationalist party "Novaya Sila" (New Force). Within two hours, the activists collected about 170 signatures to the petition to the authorities demanding the return the Stavropol Territory from the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) back to the Southern Federal District (SFD) and introduction in the territory of a special migration regime for natives from Northern Caucasus and Transcaucasia.

On April 6, a doctor of the maternity hospital in Vladikavkaz was detained when trying to sell a baby, said Yaroslav Gudkov, the head of the Department for Economic Security (known as OBEP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia.

Ibragim Ibragimli, 55, a member of the Coordinating Council of Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (known as GDDOP), was brutally beaten in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) brutally beaten by of Azerbaijan, 55-year-old. He received serious injuries.

On April 5 in Sumgait, Sarvan Davudoglu and Elshad Khagan, activists of the local branch of the youth organization of the "Musavat" Party, were detained. They were brought to the Sumgait city police department. Davudoglu was sentenced by the court to 10 days in jail for disobeying police, and Khagan released, said Akhad Mamedli, the deputy head of the youth organization of the "Musavat" Party.

During the recent inspection held in Georgia by experts of the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russia's Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has rejected products of 12 Georgian wine producers. These factories will be unable to supply products to Russia, said Gennady Onischenko, the head of the agency and the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia.

On April 6, Vladikavkaz hosted a protest demanding the closure the metallurgical factory named the Open-Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Electrozink". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that about 30 people gathered in Victory Square.

A two-day-long civil seminar "School of New Power", which discusses the electoral process in Russia, was opened today in Stavropol. It is attended by over 40 listeners from different regions of Southern Russia.

About 80 people in 40 cars took part in the action "Coloured Holes" in Volgograd and marked with paint the dangerous holes in pavement of city streets.

Relatives of Famil Kuchev, the Imam of the mosque of the village of Novofrig, Khiva District of Dagestan, cannot find him and believe that he could be kidnapped in Moscow.

In Yerevan's Freedom Square a candle-lighting ceremony, organized by the initiative group "Wake up Armenia!" and the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" in memory of Grachya Muradyan, the slain head of the village of Proshyan, the Kotayk Region, took place.

IN the period from May 2012 to March 2013, 186 persons came to Abkhazia from Syria for permanent residence, Vyacheslav Chirikba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, said on April 5 at the roundtable dedicated to problems of repatriation.

Makhachkala has hosted a spontaneous rally of the relatives of the two supposedly kidnapped residents of Dagestan Abdul Ibragimov and Magomed Kadilov.