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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.

A picket under the slogan "No place in Russia for Foreign Agents" took place in Moscow today at the office of the Association "Golos" (Vote), said Grigory Melkonyants, Deputy Executive Director of the Association.

Nalchik has hosted a training seminar for the compatriots from Syria living in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The event was organized to help the repatriates to get adapted to the life in the republic.

The version that the fire of a skyscraper in the territory of "Grozny City" was caused by carelessness is the inspectors' priority. They also study the version of an arson and non-compliance of the building with fire safety requirements.

Yesterday, on April 4, two residents of Makhachkala – Abdullah Ibragimov and Magomed Kadilov – did not return home; and their relatives still do not know where they are.

The court has sentenced Araz Guliev, the editor-in-chief of the religious website xeber44.com, who was detained at a protest rally of believers, to 8 years in prison. Seven other defendants in this case received from 3 to 8 years, said the lawyer Fariz Namazly.

The Parliament of Georgia has approved by a majority of votes in the third reading the amendments to the law "On Military Duty and Military Service". Now, the term of mandatory military service will be reduced down to 12 months.

The second group of specialists of the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision), which was engaged, since April 2, in inspecting Georgian wineries, wishing to supply their products to the Russian Federation, has completed its work.

Law enforcers of Chechnya are conducting a special operation against militants in the mountains and forests of the Achkhoi-Martan District, near the administrative border with Ingushetia.

As reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia, six Georgian citizens detained at the administrative border with South Ossetia have been released.

Activists of the opposition and the country's democratic public of the country have decided to campaign in defence of the rights of the arrested activists of the "Nida". They arrests were also condemned by the Human Rights Watch.

In the region of Kakheti (Eastern Georgia), the international centre for cultural, humanitarian and economic Georgian-Russian cooperation named "GROSS" has opened free courses for studying the Russian language. First groups have already been formed. The centre plans to open similar courses throughout the country.

On April 3, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh hosted a presentation of the third issue of the literary and journalistic almanac, which includes the works of writers and poets from Georgia, Azerbaijan, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

According to the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia, the website "Ingushetiyaru.org", owned by the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, was recognized as extremist by the court.

Today, the Georgian MPs have approved by a majority vote in the third reading the amendments to the Law "On General Courts".