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The detainee Timur Toldiev has died at the Malgobek ROVD (District Interior Division) of Ingushetia from torture, said his brother Alikhan Toldiev, a resident of the village of Ekazhevo. He has addressed his application on this occasion to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Today, the judicial board on criminal cases of the appeal instance of the Moscow City Court (MCC) has left Rustam Makhmudov, a native of Chechnya, accused of murdering the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, in custody.

From the morning on April 4, the work to clear the area around the complex "Grozny City", where in the evening on April 3 the tower named "Olymp" was on fire. The building was not inhabited; and there were no victims.

According to believers, in January-March 2013, Russian Jehovah's Witnesses faced at least 49 cases of violations of their rights; four of these cases occurred in Southern Russia.

Two battalions of Armed Forces of Georgia – Nos. 33 and 42 – have left for Afghanistan to take part in the mission of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said the press service of the Georgian Ministry of Defence (MoD) on April 3.

Because of the combustible part of insulation, the fire has spread across all the levels of the 40-storey building of the complex "Grozny City". The building will be restored, said the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

Parents of the three students from Ingushetia, who suffered in a mass brawl with shooting in Stavropol, will challenge the exclusion order of the North-Caucasian Federal University (NCFU), the rector Alina Levitskaya said today.

Female students of the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA) are allowed to attend classes in hijabs, said Gasym Mamedov, the vice-rector of the Academy for educational work.

In the end of April or beginning of May the wine "Kindzmarauli Marani" will be sold in Russia, Dmitry Lebanidze, the company director, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to his story, till the end of this year about 500,000 bottles of wine will be exported to Russia.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court received 23 complaints against the verdict on mass riots in the village of Sagra in the summer of 2011, which resulted in the death of a native of Azerbaijan. The court's decision was appealed against both by those sentenced and the suffered party.

Veisyal Gasymov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was arrested for disobeying the police, said Abulfaz Gurbanly, the head of the youth committee of the PFPA. The Party treats Gasymov's administrative arrest as unjustified, and intends to file a complaint against the decision of the court.

A special aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has brought to Moscow for treatment two OMON (riot police) fighters, wounded in a mine explosion in Ingushetia, said Makka Gadieva, a representative of Ministry of Public Health of Ingushetia.

Today, the Board of Appeal of the Moscow City Court (MCC) has recognized the rejection by the investigator to initiate a criminal proceeding against the officials who commanded the storming of the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in 2002, where hostages were taken by terrorists. The complaint was lodged to the MCC after a similar refusal by the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow.

As stated on March 21 – the Day of Down syndrome patients – by NGO activists at a special action, in Georgia, for people with Down syndrome it is almost impossible to find a job; they cannot receive disability pensions; and education teachers often refuse to work with these children.

The police had actually kidnapped the theologian Talekh Bagirzade, while the charges of drug possession are absurd, Mirgasym Aliev, a relative of Bagirzade, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Seven servicemen were wounded by two explosions triggered in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia; some of them will be sent by a special flight to Moscow for treatment.

Today, the Soviet District Court of Astrakhan has ruled to stop the criminal case about the explosion in a nine-storey apartment building in February 2012, the collapse of which killed 11 persons, said Elena Yaroslavtseva, the spokesperson of the Astrakhan Regional Court.

The imprisonment term for Zalina Gabibulaeva and Zaira Akaeva, residents of Dagestan, sentenced today to two years in colony, will be counted from the day of their detention.

Today, the Lenin District Court of Rostov-on-Don has arrested in absentia two suspects of murdering Alexander Terekhov, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Today, the Sabunchi District Court of Baku has arrested the theologian Talekh Bagirzade, accused of drug possession, for two months. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Mirgasym Aliev, a relative of Bagirzade.