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Today, the materials gathered by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"on the crimes committed, according to human rights defenders, by law enforcement officials in Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, North Ossetia and Chechnya, were sent to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), to be investigated by the special unit of the ICRF.

A training centre aimed to teach old people in the basics of computer and IT skills has been opened today in Vladikavkaz.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found no proofs of involvement of power agents in Sirazhudin Shafiev's kidnapping in September 2009. However, the decision of the ECtHR states the guilt of Russian authorities of a failure to properly investigate the case.

Khadizhat and Malik Gataev, the founders of the family children's home in Chechnya, have received political asylum in Finland; the same protection was also granted to three of their children. This was reported by Oksana Chelysheva, ahuman rights activist and Vice-Chair of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society.

Georgian human rights organizations have held a staged action – in Tbilisi, inRustaveli Avenue– under the motto "I am a reporter, not a spy!" dated to the World Press Freedom Day.

A well-known Armenian Internet edition "1in.am", which is an electronic version of the "Zhamanak" newspaper, was attacked by hackers three days before the elections. As reported by Ruben Megrabyan,the editor of the Russian service of the website, currently they are actively recovering the resource and hope to cope with it by today's evening.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated to the Russian Federation seven complaints against violation by the state the rights to life and effective remedy in respect of acts and inaction of the authorities before, during and after the hostage-taking at School No. 1 in Beslan on September 1, 2004. The whole proceeding was awarded the name "Tagaeva and others versusRussia and six other complaints".

Unidentified armed men have kidnapped Djavar Khanmagomedov, 31, a resident of the city of Derbent. Relatives do not exclude that is could be made by power agents.

Dismantling the stalls in Mashtots park was carried out upon the order of Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan who acknowledged the decision of construction in this territory invalid.

Some unknown people wearing camouflage uniforms are spying on Seifudin Babaev, resident of the town of Dagestanskie Ogni, who is under house arrest.He fears for his life. This was reported by Dagestani regional organization (DRO) “Human Rights Protection”.

The authorities attempted to disperse an action of the youth branch of the oppositional party “Georgian Dream” in the town of Kutaisi by water from fire-engines. A representative of the ruling party was skeptic about this statement of the opposition.

Zukhra Mutaeva, a resident of the villageof Zubutli-Miatli, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, claims that her husband KamilMutaev,36, father of four young children, was kidnapped and taken away to some unknown place by armed men in camouflage and masks.

Zalina Gabibulaeva,a resident of Dagestan, who was detainedat the road patrol checkpoint "Chermen" between Ingushetia and North Ossetia, was on her way to Nalchikaiming to get a permit to marriage with Rasul Kudaev, one of the defendants in the caseon events on October 13, 2005. This is stated in Gabibulaeva's application to the chair of the court dealing with this case.

Right before the "Kuban"-"Anji"football match of the 42nd day of the championship of Russia, fans of both teams held a mass brawl.

Internet users are discussing the incident with a fight at the mall "Evropeiskiy" in Moscowin the course of the campaign for observance of traffic rules launched by activists of the public movement "StopKHAM" (Stop Caveman!). Bloggers believe that the incident was kindled by the wife and son of Tamerlan Mingaev, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the ChechenRepublic under the President of Russia.

"Channel Nine", where the co-owner is Ekaterina Khvedelidze, the wife of the leader of the oppositional coalition "Georgian Dream"businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, has begun broadcasting in Georgia.

The Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has completed the investigation of the criminal case initiated against Zeinab Suyunova, a resident of the Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory, accused of the attempted terror actin Red Square in Moscow in 2010.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia altered the sentence to Vadim Vazagov in whose house a gas bottle exploded during a wedding last year, nine persons perished and 50 got injured as a result. The sentence was altered by the court for a conditional one.

Pyatigorsk environmental organization “Sunny patrol” directed the second open letter of behalf of 4,5 thousand residents of Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody to Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in North Caucasian Federal Okrug (NCFO) Alexander Kholoponin asking him to settle the conflict situation connected with development of Mashuk.

On the eve of the Day of Spring and Labour marked on May 1, residents of different areas of the resort city of Sochi, KrasnodarTerritory, were left without electricity, which in most homes was restored only on the following day.