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In Azerbaijan, a serviceman of the National Army has wounded his comrade-in-arms from his service firearm by negligence.

Today, the Mayor of Astrakhan Mikhail Stolyarov has met the protesting fixed-route taxi drivers, who demand to preserve their Gazel mini-vans in the city transport network, and promised soon to solve the problem of their employment. The protesters were invited for a meeting in the building of the regional administration to address all the issues of their concern.

The large-scale clearing of the Chechen Republic of mines, shells and other explosive devices, initiated by military sappers, will take three years, according to the Republic's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

At today's session, the majority of State Duma MPs have refused to support the proposal of the parliamentarians from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (SR) (Fair Russia) Party to put the special report of the parliamentary group which visited the Astrakhan hunger-strikers in late March on the agenda of the plenary session.

The data about kidnapping of 88 persons in Ingushetia over the past two years and involvement of power agents in these crimes need to be checked, said today Rashid Nurgaliev, Russia's Interior Minister, in response to a request of a State Duma MP.

Moscow hosted a farewell to the public figure, a native of Azerbaijan Metin Mekhtiev, who was killed on April 10 in the centre of the Russian capital. The ceremony was attended by about two thousand people.

Today, a protest action of the youth movement will start in Astrakhan against the ex-candidate for the city Mayor Oleg Shein and his supporters. This was reported by Konstantin Goloskokov, Commissar of the movement "Nashi".

Merab Kolbaya and Gogita Arkaniya, convicted on charges of organizing terror acts in the territory of Georgia, have changed their initial evidences. As stated by their advocate Gela Nikolaishvili, Kolbaya and Arkaniya had earlier evidenced under pressure.

Mikhail Kalinin, a resident of the city of Cherepovets has applied to the Investigatory Division of Krasnodar, saying that his son Denis Kalinin was detained by policemen from the Krasnodar UVD (Interior Department), after which doctors diagnosed traumas in his son.

On April, 12, activists of Stavropol regional branch of LDPR party held an action under the slogan "Launch the Governor to space!". Concurrently the department of the party started collecting signatures under the demand of the Governor's resignation.

Over 50 route taxi drivers of Astrakhan discontented with the actions of municipal Administration suspended work, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Former soldier of statutory service Suren Kirakosyan in Armenia has been on a hunger strike in a correctional ward "Goris" since April, 5.

Two contract servicemen are suspected of regular beating up a soldier of statutory service in Ashuluk firing range, Astrakhan region, Natif Gadjimetov, official representative of Public prosecutor's office of Southern military region, reported.

A car with activists of the Russian Federation of Car Owners (RFCO), who were going to Astrakhan to support the local opposition and political activists, was detained by law enforcers.

The roundtable "Policy in Northern Caucasus. What Experts Suggest" was the last event of the Forum "Gaidar Readings" ongoing in Pyatigorsk. In the course of the discussion, experts invited state officials to actively cooperate with various religious groups and create agglomerations in the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Today, Milrad Fatulaev, the editor-in-chief of the Dagestani weekly "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time), has received a statement of the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Makhachkala about initiation of an administrative case against him under the article of slander after publication of an article about introduction of the CTO (counterterrorist operation) regime in the village of Gimry, Untsukul District. The weekly's staff views it as pressure on the edition by national authorities.

As stated by Eldar Orudjev, the head of the legal department of the Azerbaijani state-owned oil company SOCAR, residents of the dwelling area Sulu-Tepe of the township Khodjasan, Binagadi District of Baku, whose house are demolishing by the company, should go to court and seek compensations for their housing from local authorities and municipalities, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

A criminal case was initiated by republican Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR) in KBR on the fact of beating up resident of Nalchik Inal Berov by the personnel of the Ministry of Interior Affairs. Inal Berov was officially acknowledged sufferer.

Local residents of Beslan, North Ossetia, held an action of protest neat the dump where garbage of several years' standing was burning. They demand to move the dump farther away from the residential area of the town.

On April, 11, an action of protest was held in Vardanants square of the town of Giumri, Armenia. Its participants came out in opposition against the festival of Azerbaijani films "STOP" planned on April, 12.