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Last night, a fire occurred in the of Porfiriev family's house in dispute located in Amurskaya Street in Astrakhan. According to the opinion of Regina Porfirieva, the wife of the family head, the fire was caused by arson. Investigators are working in place, and the version of arson is not excluded, in turn, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in the Astrakhan Region reports.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a suspected initiator of the terror act in Boston, came to the attention of Russian power agencies in early 2011 in connection with the detention in Dagestan of Canadian citizen William Plotnikov, and in 2012, when Tamerlan Tsarnaev was seen together with Makhmud Nidal, an alleged agent of the armed underground. This was stated by a source at the Dagestan's Centre for Combating Extremism.

Events dedicated to the Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923 and the Day of Circassian Flag; transition to final phase of trials on Budanov's murder in Moscow and bribes in GIBDD in Volgograd; adoption in the first reading of the bill on electing the head of Ingushetia by parliamentary vote - see the review of major events in the Caucasus during the week of April 22-28, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, staff members of the newspaper "Azadlyg" and members of the Azerbaijani Press Council have sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) the appeal calling to investigate the incident which occurred with journalists of the opposition newspaper on April 27.

Today, the Krasnodar Regional Court has dismissed an appeal against the arrest of Mikhail Savva, Director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre (SRRC).

The examination of Akhmed Bilalov has revealed high content of arsenic and molybdenum in his body. This was reported by a representative of the Professor Wolfgang Kelling's Clinic.

Today, relatives of Yuri Budanov supported the position of prosecutors and asked the jury to find Yusup Temerkhanov guilty of killing the ex-Colonel.

Today, Rasim Ibadanov, a participant of the Kizlyar wedding party with Islamic flags, was delivered to the OVD (Interior Division) connection with his interview, a video record of which was earlier posted on the "YouTube". At least, one of the participants of the Kizlyar wedding party has been severely beaten and in need of medical care, a local resident reports.

A source from law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic said that they would not strengthen their checkpoint near the administrative border with Ingushetia and regard the actions of their Ingush counterparts who had announced construction of the block-post near the village of Arshty as provocative.

German doctors have found mercury in the blood of Akhmed Bilalov, the level of which is several times higher than normal. Akhmed Bilalov himself has confirmed the fact of his poisoning with mercury.

In Krasnodar, at a rally in support of Mikhail Savva, the director of grant programmes at the "Southern Regional Resource Centre", about a hundred signatures were collected to the petition demanding to stop prosecuting the arrested human rights activist, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Ten beaten participants of the wedding party have been brought to the OVD (Interior Division) of the city of Kizlyar, Magomed Kartashov, a member of the NGO "Union of the Just", among them, said an eyewitness of the incident. In its turn, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) states detention of the members of the extremist organization "Hizb-ut-Tahrir".

As reported by Eka Azarashvili, the press speaker of the Central Election Commission (CEC), during the election of an MP in the Bagdati Constituency violations were recorded; they were confirmed also by activists of the "United National Movement".

The Supreme Court (SC) of Adygea has withdrawn from consideration the complaint lodged by Mukharbi Tkharkakhov, a co-chair of the movement "For Future of Adygea", against the decision of the Maikop City Court, which failed to satisfy his complaint against the Territorial Election Commission (TEC) of Maikop, the Office of the SC reported on April 26.

Today, the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd Region has held a protest rally "We are against bad roads", where signatures were collected to petitions to Governor Bozhenov and President Putin.

In Tskhinvali, after six days of hunger strike, Lyudmila Usovich, the mother of Georgy Zasseev, a citizen of South Ossetia, who is serving his life sentence in Gldani Prison No. 8 in Georgia. The mother went on her hunger strike in solidarity with her son and other prisoners who did the same at the jail.

Employees of the centre to combat extremism of the MIA of Kabardino-Balkaria, acting in cooperation with local FSB agents, found a "shahid belt" in the house of a woman in the city Chegem, the MIA has reported.

On April 26, mass detentions of believers took place in the Moscow Muslim community "Darul Arqam". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a community member that the Imams of the mosque preached the ideology of moderate Islam and called for interethnic accord.

As reported today by the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), this night in the Khiv District of Dagestan, Bagir Agabaev, the leader of "Khiv" militant grouping, born in 1979, and his accomplice Albert Yarov, born in 1982, were killed.

Oksana Mikhalkina, the victim's representative, has treated the jury's verdict in the case of the fight near the Shopping Centre (SC) "Europeiskiy" as lawful and fair. However, Darya Trenina, the advocate for the defendant, does not agree with her.