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Coordinator of the "Left-Wing Front" Sergey Udaltsov said that he would temporarily suspend his hunger strike held in solidarity with oppositionists in Astrakhan, who failed to admit the outcomes of the election of the Mayor of Astrakhan.

Today, the Dagestani leader Magomedsalam Magomedov and a State Duma Deputy Rizvan Kurbanov have held a sitting of the commission for adaptation of militants to peaceful life. Three petitions were satisfied, while the repeated petition of Mirzamagomedov was denied.

Relatives of the 16-year-old boy from the village of Karata, Akhvakh District of Dagestan, who was wounded by a policeman on 16 March and who is in coma since, do not believe in the proper objectivity at the investigation into the crime by local authorities. They report about attempts of pressure on the investigators, participants and witnesses to the incident and ask the leadership of Dagestan and Russia's power bosses to take the inquiry of the case under their control.

Resident of Krasnodar Ludmila Kablukova has been on a hunger strike near the White House in Moscow stating that she became victim of swindlers who took away her house and homestead which had been her private property. According to her, neither the courts nor her appeals to bodies of power yielded any results.

Natives of Ingushetia who are serving penalty in correctional facilities (CF) of Irkutsk and Kirov regions of the Russian Federation are asking Head of the republic Yunus-bek Evkurov to find an opportunity of building a colony in the territory of Ingushetia. They explain that they undergo oppression on ethnic grounds and seldom see their relatives because of financial problems.

Yesterday, April, 18, public actions of supporters and opponents of ex-candidate for Mayor's office of Astrakhan Oleg Shein were held simultaneously in the town of Volzhsky, Volgograd region.

The Russian fishing ship "Tyulen-6" (Seal-6), which has anchored at the port of the Democratic Republic of Congo and which crew is seeking payment of wage arrears from the ship owner, faces running out of reserve of food.

Yaqub Shakhin oglu Nasrullazade, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, shot himself dead from his service weapon. This was reported by Teimur Abdullaev, Deputy Chief of the press service of the Defence Ministry of the country.

Today, in Baku, Idrak Abbasov, a staff member of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) and of the newspaper "Aina" (Mirror) was severely beaten. The incident happened at about 12:00 a.m. in a residential area of Sulu-Tepe in the village of Khodjasan of Binagadi District of Baku.

The trial on the case of the attack on power agencies located in Nalchik, which was committed by militants on October 13, 2005, partially read off the records of interrogation of defendant Ruslan Khanov. The defendant argues that he gave his testimony under physical and psychological pressure.

On Tuesday, April 17, in Baku, two police officers tried to inspect the apartment of Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy (IPD), where the new office of the organization is located. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by the very human rights activist.

Department for Combating Corruption under General Prosecutor of Azerbaijan has completed the criminal investigation against Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", who was arrested last October on charges of bribery.

Vladimir Churov, Chairman of the Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC), said that, when watching videos from polling stations in Astrakhan, he saw no falsification; however, he found out violations of procedural nature.

On April, 17, two meetings were held in Volgograd simultaneously: one of them was that of the supporters of ex-candidate for Mayor's office of Astrakhan Oleg Seiyn, the other was organized by opponents of the politician who is currently on a hunger strike.

Alexander Vasiliev, attorney of Yury Tikhomirov acknowledged guilty of murder of anti-fascist Ilya Dzhaparidze and sentenced to ten years of custody in a strict regime colony declared that he would appeal against the verdict of guilty concerning his client as unlawful and unjustified.

According to law enforcement bodies, on April 16, over 10,000 people took part in a festive demonstration dated to the three years' anniversary of cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya. It was attended by officials from different ministries and agencies, students of higher and specialized secondary schools and pupils of secondary schools.

The Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan is verifying the information that law enforcement bodies may have to do with the kidnapping of the resident of Makhachkala Allakhverdi Radjabov; a similar check will be carried out of disappearance of the brothers Magomed and Abdulah Murtazaliev.

The Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Einullah Fatullaev is a laureate won the 2012 World Award of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano for his contribution into the cause of the freedom of the press.

At a briefing in Moscow, Oleg Shein told reporters that he would continue his personal hunger strike, despite the fact that he began - jointly with the Central Election Commission )CEC) - watching the video materials from polling stations during the election of the Mayor of Astrakhan.

A soldier of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan opened automatic fire at his comrades-in-arms and killed two soldiers and wounded two more, the local Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.