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On April 26, the village of Razdolnoye in Sochi hosted an assembly of about one hundred citizens, who demanded to stop the Olympic and commercial construction in their territory.

The investigatory authorities have initiated a case against an inspector of the GIBDD (traffic police) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria and his colleague from the city of Perm, who are both suspected of beating a resident of Nalchik and his wife. This was reported by the Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the ICRF.

Investigators not only fail to hold inquiry into the fact of intrusion into the privacy of Khadidja Ismaylova, a journalist of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty, but have also committed such intrusion themselves, said the journalist's advocate Adil Ismaylov. The journalist herself does not rule out that investigatory authorities may be associated with criminals.

Umatgirey Kartoev, a resident of Ingushetia, has come to Moscow hoping to meet Mr Uschakovskiy, Senior Investigator of the Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), and seek assistance in receiving the bodies of his four sons, who were killed on March 2, 2010, during a special operation in the village of Ekazhevo.

On April 27, the observatory mission of the OSCE/ODIHR (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) published the second interim report on the parliamentary elections in Armenia that covers the period of April 3-25. According to the report, despite the fact that the campaign is generally calm, a number of incidents with application of violence there were registered.

Investigators are carrying out inquiry concerning Igor Sorokin, Mayor of the town of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, who, according to local Public prosecutor's office, infringed upon the town's independent water supply for the population, regional department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR) reports.

Relatives of resident of Dagestan Timur Danilin report inaction of law enforcement bodies who are not searching for the missing man who, in their opinion, may be kept in the police department of Navolaksky district.

In Volgograd, four local residents, including a state GIBDD (road traffic police) inspector, are accused of organizing a network of underground gambling clubs in the city.

For three months of this year, the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic revealed - in the course of checks for compliance with the labour legislation of municipal utilities, and entities of construction, educational and medical sphere - about five thousand violations. 32 officials were brought to administrative responsibility. However, at some enterprises of the republic salary debts range from several months to several years.

In the city of Nizhnevartovsk, natives of Chechnya claim that last September they were beaten by local OMON (riot police) agents. Six weeks after the incident, a criminal case was initiated on this fact, which is still under investigation. According to the victims, their attempt to achieve identification of the attackers turned into mockery on them; and their advocate was repeatedly threatened.

The fact of detention in the village of Tsatanikh, Untsukul District of Dagestan, of Ibragim Saipulaev and his direction to psychiatric examination was reported by his brother Shamil Saipulaev, who turned to human rights activists with a request to restore his brother's violated rights. The detainee's advocate finds the appointment of examination ungrounded.

Roman Gubarev, accused of murdering eight people, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Gubarev refused to plead guilty.

Today, the Kirov Court of Makhachkala has found Milrad Fatulaev, editor-in-chief of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) weekly guilty of non-taking measures to prevent defamation of the President of Dagestan and fined him by 10,000 roubles.

Azerbaijani law enforcers are preventing the lawyer Elchin Sadygov from meeting his clients - Vugar Gonagov and Zaur Guliev, the executive director and editor-in-chief of the regional TV Channel "Khayal", respectively, accused of events in the city of Guba. This was reported by the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS). The penitentiary service denies this information.

A criminal case has been opened in Volgograd against a company commander of the patrol and post service of the UVD (Department of Interior), who is suspected of abusing a detainee.

President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili signed a law of amendments to the Criminal Code of the country toughening punishment for crimes committed on the grounds of intolerance towards different social groups.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Islam Khashagulgov, accused of committing the terror act in the marketplace of Vladikavkaz on September 9, 2010, to 24 years of imprisonment.

Observer from the Council of Europe Christopher Shtresser declared that he would no longer try to get Azerbaijani visa after he was refused its issue in Baku once again.

The investigation in Stavropol region brought a charge against four ex-district militia officers of the Department of Interior Affairs in Predgorny district of Stavropol region. They are suspected of using violence against a forty-four-years-old local resident Viacheslav Merekha. The case caused a wide public response.

During the first hearing on the lawsuit of the action for invalidation of the results of election of Mayor of Astrakhan the court dismissed Oleg Shein's motion to recuse the judge.