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National air carrier of Armenia “Armavia” suspended flights from April, 1, and initiated a bankruptcy procedure, Press service of the company reported.

The investigation considers that mass disturbances on May, 6, 2012, in Bolotnaya square of Moscow were organized by leader of the “Left Front” Sergey Udaltsov, Russian oppositionists Leonid Razvozzhaev and Konstantin Lebedev and Georgian politician Givi Targamadze.

Today Muscovites and guests of the capital are bringing flowers to the metro stations “Lubiyanka” and “Park Kultiri” where acts of terror with the participation of women suicide bombers were committed three years ago. The investigators are going on with their work to establish persons involved in this terror.

During the hurricane that fell upon Adzharia several days ago one man perished. It was David Geladze, fisherman from the settlement of Sarpi, who was washed down by a wave. Over 300 houses got damaged. The Government of Georgia decided to help the owners of the damaged houses to restore them but many local residents are still doing it at their own expense.

Paruir Airikyan, a former presidential candidate in Armenia, has received 20.5 million drams (about 50,000 US dollars) from the government for taking his treatment after the suffered attack and has left for Holland.

According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Georgia, more than a thousand servicemen, illegally dismissed from the Ministry, have been reinstated.

Arthur Dalgatov, Acting Minister of Education of Dagestan, has signed an order to increase the pay of teachers and employees of the primary and secondary vocational education.

The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russia's Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has allowed the two Georgian producers "Kindzmarauli Marani" and "Wine House Dugladze" to import their wines to the Russian market.

Today, employees from the inspecting bodies – the Prosecutor's Offices and the Ministry of Justice – appeared at the office of Russia's oldest human rights organization – the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG).

Today Moscow city court heard the evidence of employees of the notary's office near which ex-colonel Yuri Budanov was killed.

Representatives of the aggrieved party on the case of death of Artak Nazaryan, Armenian officer of contact service, his sister and successor Tsovinar Nazaryan and human rights activist Ruben Martirosyan spoke at the trial today. They demanded to find real criminals and bring in an acquittal to the defendants.

Head of Khasavyurt Service department of “Kavkazregiongaz” Yusup Gadjiev was killed as a result of a conflict with two local residents in whose house gas was cut off for debt, representatives of Committee of Inquiry reported.

144 housing estates got damaged as a result of a storm that fell upon the coastal zone of Batumi on March, 24. Houses located in Khelvachauri district underwent the greatest damage, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Representatives of law enforcement bodies are carrying out inspections in non-governmental organization “Environmental Watch on North Caucasus” whose central office is located in Maikop.

Ganimat Zahid, Editor of oppositional newspaper “Azadlyg”, called to hold an action “Day of solidarity of all those opposing the authorities’ repression against youth” on the Facebook.

On March 27, the Russia's Supreme Court upheld the verdict on the case dealing with preparation to blow up the high-speed passenger train "Sapsan", undertaken in the summer of 2011, dismissing the cassation complaint lodged by the four convicts sentenced to prison terms from 15 to 18 years.

Today, Judge Alexei Kupriyanov from the Krasnodar Territorial Court has requested the criminal case from the magistrate court of Sochi opened against the journalist Svetlana Kravchenko by the guard Vladimir Krivosheev who complained that he was beaten by her.

Rashidbek Shamsudinov, a resident of the suburb of Khasavyurt named Olympijsky, disappeared at night on March 26. His relatives fear that he had been kidnapped, Rashidbek's father-in-law Alibulat Khakimov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Amirkhan Aldamov, who went missing in December 2012, was found dead in the Gumbet District of Dagestan. The casualty is a brother Magomedali Amirkhanov, detained on suspicion of committing the terror act on August 28, 2012, which killed Sheikh Saeed(Said)Chirkey.

The court granted the motion of the defence in the lawsuit against the newspaper "Zhokhovurd" and lifted the arrest on the property of the correspondent of the edition Sona Grigoryan, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.