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Suicide bombers again blow them up in Northern Caucasus; unpleasant weather surprises paralyze life in the Krasnodar Territory; in Ingushetia, former deputy minister miraculously survives an attempt, - look these and other events in the review of the week of April 4-10, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On April 12, head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov made some reshuffling in his government and appointed Khadizha Dulaeva to the post of the first deputy head of the administration and Chechen government. Changes were made among top managers of a number of ministries and agencies.

According to preliminary data, in comparison with the leaders of other subjects of the Southern Federal District (SFD), the revenues of the head of Adygea Aslan Tkhakushinov are among the lowest. This is evidenced by the data, published by heads of Russian regions in their declarations. So far, out of the SFD subjects, there is no data about the income of Alexander Zhilkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region.

According to the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr", starting from 2002, 197 persons are on the list of kidnapped and missing residents of Ingushetia. As stated by Yusup Kostoev, an Ingush MP, only last year 10 persons were abducted, whose fate remains unknown. Making his comment on the dispersed rally on March 23 in Nazran, Mr Kostoev noted that such protests are held because the desperate people cannot get at least any information about their kidnapped relatives.

Djavid Mekhraliev, a youth activist of the Party of "Classic" People's Front of Azerbaijan (PCNFA) and a 3rd year student of the Department of History of the Baku State University (BSU), was expelled from the university. This is the second exclusion of a young activist from university within the last week in Azerbaijan.

Public prosecutor's office of Karachay district of the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia has carried out an inspection of sanitary and technical state of medioprophylactic institutions of the district. Five outpatients' clinics, eleven first-aid and obstetric stations and two district hospitals underwent the inspection.

One more "Day of Wrath" passed off on April, 12, in the city of Rostov-on Don and the town of Sakhti. Activists of oppositional movements of Taganrog decided not to hold the picket not authorized by the administration.

The suspicion of negligence has become the reason for starting criminal proceedings against the director of a boarding school in Rostov region where three inmates got poisoned.

The young man liquidated in Ingushetia on April 11 as a result of a fight had a driver's license and a student's record book of the Curative Department of the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy. Besides, documents of residents of Grozny and Armavir were found at the fight venue, said a source from local law enforcement bodies.

Igor Zhelyabin, head of the press service of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Krasnodar Territory, had deliberately told the media that the rally on April 9 against the launch of the Tuapse Terminal of the "EuroChem" Company, intended for handling chemical fertilizers, was attended by a total of 100 persons, while in fact the figure was over 500. This is stated by a message issued by the public organization "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus".

Samvel Saakyan, a citizen of Armenia, suffered in the explosion, which was triggered yesterday, on April 11, in the Minsk metro; his health condition is regarded as of moderate gravity.

As reported by Alkhas Amirkhanov, senior assistant for PR of the head of the Dagestani Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), investigators believe that one of the major versions of the murder of a woman on April 11 in Kaspiisk have to do with her engagement in non-traditional healing methods.

The census data for the republics of Northern Caucasus, announced by the "Rosstat" (Russian Federal Statistics Agency), raise serious doubts. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Nikita Mkrtchyan, a leading researcher at the Institute of Demography of the Supreme School of Economics, in his comment on the preliminary census data.

Tural Abbasly, head of the youth branch of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, who is now held in custody, was excluded from the magistracy of the Baku State University (BSU), where he studied for the degree in "publicist journalism". The dean's office told that Abbasly had debts on some disciplines; however, according to his mother, he was unable to take his exams because he was in custody.

Karim (Alexei) Tarasenko, who was killed during a special operation on March 31 in Makhachkala, was guilty of nothing and had no relation to the armed underground, stated his wife, Khalida Badalova.

Sandro Bregadze, ex-Deputy of the Parliament of Georgia, sentenced to probation and fined for malicious hooliganism with use of impromptu means, intends to further engage in prisoners' rights and creation of a new party.

Leaders of the Boxing Federation of Russia and a number of famous Russian boxers have addressed President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan for his help in releasing an opposition activist Samson Khachatryan, five times the USSR champion, twice the European champion and prize-winner of the World Cup in boxing, from custody.

In the Belorechensk District of the Krasnodar Territory, the inter-district prosecutor's office has found out, while checking the enforcement of the legislation on state civil service and counteracting corruption, that 12 officials of the Department of Social Protection concealed part of their incomes. This was reported by the press service of the Territorial Prosecutor's Office.

One of the inmates of a boarding school in the town of Tsimlyansk, Rostov region, hospitalized with poisoning died in hospital. A correspondent of "Caucasian Knot" received this news from the regional Ministry of Public Health.

After the arrest of Bakhtiyar Gajiev, active user of the social network Facebook in Azerbaijan, last week criminal proceedings were started against Elnur Mejidli, blogger and journalist currently residing in France.