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The key figurants of the criminal case on preparation of terror acts in Red Square in Moscow during the New Year festivities on January 1, 2011, - the unsuccessful female suicide bomber Zeinab Suyunova and suspected keeper of explosives Timur Akubekov - have signed a pre-trial agreement on cooperation with investigators, the "Kommersant" has written today; however, there is no official confirmation of this information yet.

On April 15, the initiative group named "Brigade", consisting of public figures and activists, who oppose the construction in the park, began the demolition of kiosks in the Mashtots Park in Yerevan.

Supporters of Oleg Shein, an ex-candidate for the post of Astrakhan Mayor, began to form an initiative group for holding a city-wide referendum on the trust to the Mayor, said Sergey Mironov, the leader of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party.

The Armenian Police is conducting an inquiry into the attack on activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) during the election campaign in the Constituency No. 7 of Yerevan.

Summing up presidential election in South Ossetia; continuation of political hunger-strike in Astrakhan; statement of power agents of Stavropol Territory about prevention of terror acts before Easter; protest action against burning garbage dump in North Ossetia; detention and arrest of suspected attempters on President of Abkhazia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of April 9-15, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, in the village of Karata, Zaur Djalilov, an officer of the Akhvakh ROVD (District Interior Division) of Dagestan, wounded an 11 for pupil of the Karata Secondary School No. 1, said Saipudin Saipudinov, a local villager.

Members of the Bar Association "Kavkaz" from Makhachkala are blaming investigators of falsifying the circumstances of the death of the lawyer Omar Saidmagomedov and his relative Rasul Kurbanov.

Today, about 20 members of the youth organization "Dalga" (Wave) have held a protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Baku demanding from Iranian authorities to stop supporting the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The young people held posters reading "Freedom for Syrian people!" and "Iran, support demands of Syrian people!" and chanted slogans.

According to more precise data, two men got injured in an explosion near a shop in the center of Makhachkala, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports. According to Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) in Dagestan, the man whose body was found near the entrance of a dwelling house turned out to be a gunman.

On April, 15, Orthodox residents of Chechnya celebrated Easter. This year over one thousand people came from the neighbouring regions for the holiday.

According to more precise data, an explosive device of about 200 gram trotyl equivalent power was activated near a shop in Sochi in the evening of April, 15. One person got injured, a source in law enforcement bodies of the city informed today.

Ex-nominee for Mayor's office of Astrakhan Oleg Sheiyn submitted a lawsuit to Kirov district court of the city demanding nullification of the election of Mayor of Astrakhan held on March, 4, this year. In his lawsuit he reported violations at 173 polling stations of the city, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent informs.

The former candidate for the Mayor of Astrakhan Oleg Shein can start a gradual exit out of the hunger strike, if after watching the videos from the election of the Mayor of Astrakhan, Vladimir Churov, the head of the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC), makes a statement that the hunger-strikers' lawsuit has prospects, said Nikolai Levichev, Chairman of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (SR) (Fair Russia) Party.

Late on April 13, an aircraft with another group of nine immigrants from Syria landed at the airport of Mineralnye Vody.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has decreed - on the eve of the Easter - to pardon 200 prisoners.

Yaroslav Nikolskiy, an activist of the "Yabloko" Party, who was detained in Krasnodar in the course of his picket at the residence of the Governor of the Territory Alexander Tkachov, was sentenced to 15 days in jail.

Today, Pushkin Square in Moscow was the venue of a rally in support of the political hunger-strikers in Astrakhan. They were also supported by activists of the protest movement in Tula and St Petersburg.

The drivers who demanded from the city bosses to ensure their employment and leave their Gazel minivans in the urban transport network, have stopped their strike; they are preparing lawsuits to the Arbitration Court trying to challenge the actions of the Mayoralty, said Damir Bulatov, the vice-president of the Regional Association of Motorists (RAM).

In Sochi, the criminal case against suspects of murdering Antonina Maevskaya should be re-qualified, her relatives believe.

The action against doctor's errors, held today in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, has brought together more than 500 people: residents of the Slavyansk and Krasnoarmeisk Districts and the cities of Krasnodar, Gelendzhik, Anapa, Gyulkevichi and Krymsk.