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The Karabulak Court of Ingushetia has satisfied the defence's petition to hold a re-examination of the handwriting of the witnesses Adam Nagadiev and Yakhya Kostoev, who figure of former employees of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev accused of torturing detainees.

Within the programme "Development of Women's Skills in Politics'', the British Council in Armenia holds training sessions, during which women-candidates for parliament are taught to properly build their statements, manage emotions and work with the audience. The training covers 24 candidates from eight parties.

Gapur Garchkhanov, a native of Ingushetia, kept at the SIZO of the city of Pavlodar in Kazakhstan, has announced hunger strike, demanding to cancel his illegal, in his opinion, verdict. His protest action was reported by his brother Magomed Garchkhanov.

On April 4, human rights activists and figures of culture sent an appeal to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with a request to pardon those from the so-called "lists of political prisoners". On February 8, the organizers of the rally "For Fair Elections" conveyed the list of people whom they consider to be political prisoners to Mikhail Fedotov, the Chairman of the President's Council on Human Rights. Dmitry Medvedev instructed the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to study the sentences passed to the figurants of the list.

The authorities of Baku suggested the civil movement for democracy “Public Chamber” (CMDPC) to hold their meeting on April, 8, in a parking lot of a driving school in the settlement of Baiilovo, South-Western suburb of Baku. During the action of protest its participants will demand to carry out democratic reforms in the country.

Today, activists of the Christian-Democratic Movement have moved an initiative to amend the Constitution of Georgia in order to make it possible for the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the coalition "Georgian Dream" to take part in the parliamentary elections.

In Chechnya, in the process of building underground utilities in the Lenin District of Grozny, gravestones monuments – the so-called "churts" – that were walled into the concrete foundation of the former buildings of the Republic's Hospital.

Today, the Administrative Court of Armenia has dismissed the complaint of the oppositionist Khachatur Sukiasyan against the decision of the Constituency Election Commission (CoEC) No. 10 and upheld the refusal to register him as a candidate.

Law enforcers of Kabardino-Balkaria have killed – in the course of a special operation, conducted in the outskirts of Nalchik, the village of Khasanya, – four suspected militants.

In Chechnya, within the large-scale action "Call of the Soul", more than ten thousand children's letters-appeals to militants were gathered, asking them to return to peaceful life, said the Republic's Ministry of Education and Sciences.

All the six militants killed during the special operation conducted on April 2-4 in Dagestan, have been identified; all of them were members of the Sergokala grouping, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (ANC) has reported today.

As stated by Sergey Bozhenov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, in Volgograd, in preparation for the celebrating of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, it is planned to erect a monument to the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition.

Today relatives of murdered widow of a well-known cultural figure Joseph Mayevsky Antonina Mayevskaya identified her dead body in the morgue of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar region. Investigator Maxim Bogdanovich and attorney of Mayevskaya’s relatives Igor Kurochkin were present at the identification.

Six residents of Astrakhan region are accused of organization of a religious community “Tabligi Jamia” acknowledged an extremist one and participation in its activities, Astrakhan regional Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR) reports.

A criminal case on the fact of abuse of authority was initiated in Kalmykia against the personnel of a penal colony who have regularly been beaten up natives of Chechnya, representatives of the Apparat of Ombudsman of Chechen Republic informed the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), today in a special operation in the city of Nazran five militants were killed. One of the casualties has been preliminarily identified as the 23-year-old Salman Gardanov.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled on the case "Kotov versus Russia" and refused to find the Russian Federation guilty of violating the rights of Vladimir Kotov, a defrauded investor – a resident of Krasnodar.

Today, the central square of Tskhinvali hosted an action, where the participants protested against the spread by the retail network of South Ossetia of the so-called "energy drinks", as well as against sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products to minors.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has started a check of the video appeal posted on the Internet by Sergey Medvesh, a resident of the village of Varenikovskaya, Crimea District, who claims that policemen had raped him with a bottle of vodka.

In Georgia, the Armenian Diaspora has addressed the Mayoralty of Tbilisi asking to allocate a land plot for building a memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923. This was reported by the press service of the "Community of Georgian Armenians".