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Aslan Guliev, a resident of the city of Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria, has informed rights defenders that he was kidnapped on March 14 by unidentified men in masks, who, according to his story, tortured him, demanding to talk about his connections with militants. Fearing for his life and health, Guliev asks for help in recovering his violated rights.

Since the start of 2012, at least 32 people have suffered from racist attacks in Russia; two of them were lost. The nine regions, where such incidents have occurred, include the Volgograd and Rostov Regions, according to the Information-Analytical Centre "Sova", which runs statistics of manifestations of racism and radical nationalism.

Six residents from Uzbekistan, who worked at a private agrarian farm in the Volgograd Region, fell into a sewage septic tank. As a result, one of them died.

Today activists in Astrakhan continued a series of single-person pickets supporting the demands of the participants of a political hunger strike.

The athlete from Karachay-Cherkessia Arsen Pshmakhov has won the Cup of Europe in judo, which was held in Sarajevo on March 31 and April 1, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of Karachay-Cherkessia.

In Moscow, Tamara Novikova, the mother and defender of Judge Dmitry Novikov, has stopped holding pickets for the time of consideration of her appeal by the Ministry of Justice and the Office of the Russian Government.

At least 20 people suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from March 26 to April 1, 2012. Of these, 12 persons were killed and 8 more wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On April, 2, a group of activists of youth organization of “Musavat” party held a flashmob in Baku devoted to the anniversary of dispersal of an oppositional meeting in the capital of Azerbaijan. The participants of the action demanded release of the persons convicted for participation in the meeting last year. The action was dispersed by police riot squads.

Mufti of Dagestan Ahmad-haji Abdullaev called for the residents of the republic not to consider Wahhabis the persons who wore long beards or hijabs and asked members of power ministries not to use force against the suspects. The Mufti also refuted the information that the imams submitted lists of Wahhabis to law enforcement personnel.

On April 2, about three hundred defrauded housing investors gathered in the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, near their houses in Goleneva Street to discuss the plan of further actions: should their demands remain unsatisfied, they are ready to picket the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne.

In Tbilisi, at preliminary court hearings, the Russian businessman Konstantin Rodionov, accused by Georgian authorities of illegal visiting Abkhazia, has fully admitted his guilt.

On March 17 in Makhachkala, law enforcers detained journalist Kamil Magomedov, who worked for the newspaper "Svobodnaya Respublika" (Free Republic), his wife Savdat Mikailova has reported.

At night on April 2, Magomed Nurudinov, who is serving his sentence at the Penal Colony No. 2 (IK-2) in the Kalmyk village of Yashkul, tried to commit suicide by hanging, said Vladimir Galitrov, the head of the regional branch of the All-Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights".

Zulfali Ismailov, an official from the Baku Mayoralty, attacked the photojournalist of the News Agency "Turan" Etimad Budagov, the victim reports. The incident occurred during the forced eviction of tenants of No. 20 in Shamsi Badalbeili Street.

About 50 persons have arrived in Kabardino-Balkaria from Syria. Currently, the repatriates are filing their documents for temporary residence, said Akhmad Stash, the head of the NGO "Peryt" engaged in helping compatriots to repatriate and accommodate in the land of their ancestors.

Today, two activists have held solo pickets in front of the administration of the Astrakhan Region and Secondary School No. 32 in support of the demands of the political hunger-strikers.

The defence of the figurants in the case on the riots in Manege Square intends to appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court, which dismissed the advocates' cassation complaints and upheld the verdict of the Tver Court of Moscow, at the Russia's supervisory instance and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Relatives, neighbours, colleagues and acquaintances of the employee of the "Vodokanal" Abubakar Tsechoev, who was kidnapped on March 22 in Ingushetia by unidentified power agents, demand from the leaders of Russia and Ingushetia to admit a lawyer and a physician to him, as well as establish and punish all those involved in the incident.

Shops, kiosks and cafes are closed in Chechnya as a result of the checks conducted by a special inter-ministry commission. In order to obtain a permit to resume the work, huge bribes are requested, some local businessmen assert.

In Makhachkala, unidentified persons have kidnapped Allakhverdi Radjabov; his relatives are sure that it was done by power agents. However, the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan assert that Allakhverdi Radjabov was not detained and does not figure in any criminal cases.