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On April 20, Christians celebrated the major religious holiday Easter or Resurrection of the Lord. Easter services were held in the North-Caucasian republics.

Parents of the activists of the movement "Nida", accused of organizing riots, believe the young people are innocent and they are being prosecuted for political reasons. The defendants themselves continue their hunger strike in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 in the village of Kyurdakhany.

In Sochi, no construction works are conducted to install the monument to Afghan war veterans in the lawn of the Komsomolsky Park. This was reported by the city administration in response to the inquiry of Lyudmila Shestak, a deputy of the City Council.

On April 19, upon the arrival in Baku, Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov, who was expelled from Turkey, was imprisoned in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan. According to advocate Fuad Agaev, journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov is suspected of treason.

On April 19, the city of Krasnodar hosted a picket of defrauded investors of the construction company "Rodina" (Homeland), which was coordinated with the city authorities. The action was attended by over 100 people, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The Azeri journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov, deported from Turkey and placed to the flight Ankara-Baku, disappeared in the capital of Azerbaijan. Prior to leaving Ankara, Mirkadyrov managed to report that he was deported under the request of the authorities of Azerbaijan, and he could be arrested in Baku.

Zuleikhat Ozova, a resident of Nalchik, has appealed to the Investigating Committee of Russia, the Ombudsperson for the KBR, the Human Rights Centre of the KBR and the HRC "Memorial", saying that policemen beat up her husband Beslan Ozov and forced to self-incrimination.

The model that was used in Northern Ireland cannot be applied to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, state the experts who have presented in Stepanakert a magazine "Public Participatory and Multi-Channel Diplomacy Mechanisms in Peace Processes: Lessons of Northern Ireland".

As reported by the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), in Sochi activists prevented unloading of construction waste into a water course.

Today in Makhachkala, policemen did not allow holding the Extraordinary Congress of Nations of Dagestan, said Ruslan Rasulov, a public activist and a member of the organizing committee of the congress.

Nalchik residents with disabilities lack the barrier-free environment and space for full-fledged communion, state their relatives and social workers, who took part in the roundtable on situation with invalids in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

President of Georgia has signed a pardoning decree in the context of the Orthodox Easter. In total, Giorgi Margvelashvili pardoned 95 inmates. All the pardoned persons will be released today.

The participants of the interregional round table "Preventing Conflicts among Students of Dagestan and Stavropol Territory: New Approaches", held on April 16 in Pyatigorsk, discussed ways to prevent interethnic conflicts and issues of combating extremism among young people, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Yerevan, about five thousand people took part in the protest action, organized by the initiative group DEM.AM outside the residence of the President of Armenia with a demand to guarantee enforcement of the decision of the Constitutional Court (CC) on the new pension system.

On April 18, the bill aimed at tightening the anti-terrorism legislation was adopted in the second reading by 348 Russian State Duma MPs. The third reading is scheduled for April 22, says the website of the Duma.

Today in Dagestan, the parishioners of the Salafi mosque located in the village of Shamkhal, an outskirt of Makhachkala, detained during a police raid have been set free, said a local resident.

Starting from April 20, parents of detained and tried activists of the Azerbaijani "Nida" movement will go on hunger strike in protest against the prosecutor's demand to sentence their sons to long terms of imprisonment, ranging from 6.5 to 8.5 years. The parents believe that their sons are innocent and are being persecuted for political reasons.

On April 16, the Yazidi community of Armenia celebrated the New Year – Tawusi Melek. On the eve of their New Year, young Yazidis gathered in the temple "Sanctuary", which was built two years ago in the village of Aknalich, Armavir District, where they read the prayer, lit a fire and made their wishes.

On April 18, in the city of Nalchik, unidentified man opened fire at policemen who tried to check his documents, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). He was shot dead by response fire, while none of the policemen was hurt.

On April 18, the Kirov District Court of Astrakhan began considering the criminal case against the removed City Mayor Mikhail Stolyarov, accused of taking a bribe. The court listened to the prosecution, while the defendant has refused to plead guilty.