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Nikita Tikhonov, defendant on the case of murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, has slashed his wrists in the investigative isolation ward "Matrosskaya Tishina", therefore hearing the case was deferred. Officials of law enforcement bodies consider that the attempt of suicide has been just a feint.

The prosecuting party at the trial on the case of murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova declared its opinion that Tikhonov and Khasis had been involved in drawing up a neonazi terrorist program of seizure of power "2020".

Today, the Presnya Court of Moscow has extended till June 13 the arrest of Igor Berezyuk, an activist of "The Other Russia", accused under the case of mass riots in Manege Square in Moscow in December 2010.

In 2010, over 60 percent of applications sent by residents of Dagestan to the Republic's Ombudsperson told about violations of citizens' rights in the socio-economic sphere. This is stated in the report on activities presented by the Ombudsperson Ummupazil Omarova on 22 April to the president and members of the government of Dagestan.

Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist, the war correspondent of the "Novaya Gazeta" and a veteran of two Chechen wars, has addressed - via the Internet - to the Lithuanian Embassy demanding clarifications on why his telephone conversations with Egle Kusaite, accused of preparing a terror act in the territory of Russia, were added to the criminal case and are now used as proofs of Kusaite's pressure on the investigation. The journalist himself told about it to the "Caucasian Knot".

According to the Federal Financial Monitoring Service ("Rosfinmonitoring"), the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) is in the lead by the growing number of shadow schemes and the amount of suspicious transactions, said Yury Chikhanchin, head of the Service, speaking at the conference.

The residents of the village of Kidero, Tsuntin District of Dagestan, report that detentions in the village continue by unidentified power agents in masks. On April 22 they was detained here Ayubkhan Magomedov, and on April 23 - his fellow villagers Magomed Abdurakhmanov and Rama Magomedov. It became known only today that they are kept at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of Makhachkala.

The Sheki District Court of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Kyamran Suleimanov, finished the trial of two former officials of the district administration, who were arrested after the suicide committed by local businessman Khikmet Salimov on February 3.

On April 24, the Community of Armenians in Georgia held a protest rally under the slogan "We remember and fight for justice!" in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi. The action was attended by about 600 persons, who demanded to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915.

As reported by the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", after an accident at the sewage collector, waste water got into the Yeisk Estuary in the Krasnodar Territory.

Over 20 workers got poisoned with caustic gas vapor while pressing a metallic cask at a ground of "Lomprom" public corporation in the territory of Rostov electro- metallurgical plant (REMP) in the town of Shakhti, Press service of the district Department of preventing and elimination of emergency situations reported.

Orthodox believers in Chechnya have celebrated Easter. Over 500 former residents of the republic currently living in other regions came to celebrate the holiday.

In the evening of April, 24, some unknown people in Kizlyar district of Dagestan shot down a man who had practiced alternative medicine and healing, a representative of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

The Apparat of Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in Southern Federal Okrug has established a telephone "hotline" where entrepreneurs could ask questions or submit their offers on improving investment climate in the okrug.

Tonight in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, the youth wing of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) "Dashnaktsutun" of Artsakh and the "Aram Manukyan" Student Union organized a torchlight march in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Today, residents of the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, went out to hold a picket as part of the All-Russian action in support of the law on protection of animals.

A torchlight march dedicated to the 96th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide was held in Yerevan today. This year saw coincidence of two important dates for Armenia - the Easter and the Remembrance Day of Armenian Genocide.

As reported by the press service of the Department for Dagestan of the Russian FSB, today's fifth bomb was found in the railway section Kizilyurt-Temirgoe in this republic; the bomb was successfully defused.

The family of the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev has announced a reward of one million roubles for information about the persons who on March 23 captured him and his two brothers, Murad and Berd, in their own home and delivered to the GUVD (Chief Interior Department).

The participants of the rally started today at 3:00 p.m. near Chistye Prudy metro station are protesting against allocation of budget funds for supporting North-Caucasian republics.