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In Tskhinvali, after six days of hunger strike, Lyudmila Usovich, the mother of Georgy Zasseev, a citizen of South Ossetia, who is serving his life sentence in Gldani Prison No. 8 in Georgia. The mother went on her hunger strike in solidarity with her son and other prisoners who did the same at the jail.

Employees of the centre to combat extremism of the MIA of Kabardino-Balkaria, acting in cooperation with local FSB agents, found a "shahid belt" in the house of a woman in the city Chegem, the MIA has reported.

On April 26, mass detentions of believers took place in the Moscow Muslim community "Darul Arqam". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a community member that the Imams of the mosque preached the ideology of moderate Islam and called for interethnic accord.

As reported today by the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), this night in the Khiv District of Dagestan, Bagir Agabaev, the leader of "Khiv" militant grouping, born in 1979, and his accomplice Albert Yarov, born in 1982, were killed.

Oksana Mikhalkina, the victim's representative, has treated the jury's verdict in the case of the fight near the Shopping Centre (SC) "Europeiskiy" as lawful and fair. However, Darya Trenina, the advocate for the defendant, does not agree with her.

Johar Tsarnaev, a suspect of committing the terror act in Boston, was read a statement of his rights; after which he ceased testifying. His defence will be headed by the lawyer Miriam Conrad, who earlier defended in court the Briton, who had tried to blow up a Paris-Miami aircraft. According to sources from US authorities, the bombs in Boston could be triggered remotely, while Tsarnaev brothers had planned a terror act in New York.

The executive authorities of Baku said NO to the notification of the Advisory Majlis of Democratic Forces (AMDF) about the action on April 28 with a demand to hold free presidential election, which was scheduled in one of three places offered by this oppositional association; instead it was offered to hold the event in the outskirts of the city. Activists of the AMDF have regarded the refusal as a violation of the freedom of assembly and postponed the rally.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) has partially granted the appeal complaint filed by businessman Mukhammed Gurbanov and Nadir Mamedov, the husband of his daughter and his assistant, who were arrested on charges of rendering resistance to representatives of power. The SC has mitigated their sentence and replaced their imprisonment for the conditional sentence. Today, Mukhammed Gurbanov and Nadir Mamedov were released in the courtroom.

The District Prosecutor's Office of the Kvemo Kartli Region has detained former inspectors of the Security Division of the Rustavi Prison No. 16 on charges of beating and torturing prisoners.

Investigators filed a new charge against the Deputy Chairman of the "Musavat" Party, who was arrested in connection with the riots in Ismailly. At present, he faces charges not of organizing actions aimed at disturbing public order, but of organizing mass riots accompanied by violence and pogroms.

The jury has found Bekkhan Rizvanov, the defendant in the case of the fight near the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeisky" (European) in Moscow, guilty of attempted murder and not deserving of leniency.

Today, in Dagestan, two policemen were injured as a result of careless handling of weapons, the press service of the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

On April 25, Adygea held events dedicated to celebration of the Day of Circassian Flag. Most events were held on Lenin Square in Maikop.

Today, pilots and engineers-servicemen of the bankrupt company "Armenian Airlines" that got disabilities as a result of their professional activities, held a protest action near the residence of Armenian President of Serzh Sargsyan.

At a picket held in Volgograd, residents of the Volgograd Region have stated the need to keep the hospital in the village of Bereslavka and demanded to expand access to health care. In his turn, the head of the rural settlement of Bereslavka assures that the in-patient department of the hospital will not be closed, and "the April protest actions are not necessary".

In Cherkessk, about 100 persons took part in the dance event "Adyghe Djegu", dedicated to the Day of Circassian Flag, which is celebrated today.

Today, the Rostov Region has launched the action called "Legal Train". Within the action, lawyers of different legal spheres will provide consultations to prisoners in all prisons in the Rostov Region.

Today, the Central District Court of Sochi has pronounced the verdict to Oleg Sheveiko, the former Chief Architect. The Court has sentenced the former official to 1 year and 8 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of settlement for abuse of power. The defence did not agree with the verdict.

The authorities of South Ossetia have released three residents of the Georgian villages, who were arrested for crossing the administrative border. This was reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia.

The Pyatigorsk Garrison Military Court has found Maxim Svensky, a former FSB officer, guilty of a road traffic accident that killed four persons and sentenced him to 5 years and 7 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of settlement.