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In Chechnya, within the large-scale action "Call of the Soul", more than ten thousand children's letters-appeals to militants were gathered, asking them to return to peaceful life, said the Republic's Ministry of Education and Sciences.

All the six militants killed during the special operation conducted on April 2-4 in Dagestan, have been identified; all of them were members of the Sergokala grouping, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (ANC) has reported today.

As stated by Sergey Bozhenov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, in Volgograd, in preparation for the celebrating of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, it is planned to erect a monument to the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition.

Today relatives of murdered widow of a well-known cultural figure Joseph Mayevsky Antonina Mayevskaya identified her dead body in the morgue of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar region. Investigator Maxim Bogdanovich and attorney of Mayevskaya’s relatives Igor Kurochkin were present at the identification.

Six residents of Astrakhan region are accused of organization of a religious community “Tabligi Jamia” acknowledged an extremist one and participation in its activities, Astrakhan regional Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR) reports.

A criminal case on the fact of abuse of authority was initiated in Kalmykia against the personnel of a penal colony who have regularly been beaten up natives of Chechnya, representatives of the Apparat of Ombudsman of Chechen Republic informed the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), today in a special operation in the city of Nazran five militants were killed. One of the casualties has been preliminarily identified as the 23-year-old Salman Gardanov.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled on the case "Kotov versus Russia" and refused to find the Russian Federation guilty of violating the rights of Vladimir Kotov, a defrauded investor – a resident of Krasnodar.

Today, the central square of Tskhinvali hosted an action, where the participants protested against the spread by the retail network of South Ossetia of the so-called "energy drinks", as well as against sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products to minors.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has started a check of the video appeal posted on the Internet by Sergey Medvesh, a resident of the village of Varenikovskaya, Crimea District, who claims that policemen had raped him with a bottle of vodka.

In Georgia, the Armenian Diaspora has addressed the Mayoralty of Tbilisi asking to allocate a land plot for building a memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923. This was reported by the press service of the "Community of Georgian Armenians".

In Azerbaijan, villagers from Minbashi, Sabirabad District, have held a protest today with a demand of fair distribution of compensations allotted by the government to the victims of floods in 2010.

Aslan Guliev, a resident of the city of Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria, has informed rights defenders that he was kidnapped on March 14 by unidentified men in masks, who, according to his story, tortured him, demanding to talk about his connections with militants. Fearing for his life and health, Guliev asks for help in recovering his violated rights.

Since the start of 2012, at least 32 people have suffered from racist attacks in Russia; two of them were lost. The nine regions, where such incidents have occurred, include the Volgograd and Rostov Regions, according to the Information-Analytical Centre "Sova", which runs statistics of manifestations of racism and radical nationalism.

Six residents from Uzbekistan, who worked at a private agrarian farm in the Volgograd Region, fell into a sewage septic tank. As a result, one of them died.

Today activists in Astrakhan continued a series of single-person pickets supporting the demands of the participants of a political hunger strike.

The athlete from Karachay-Cherkessia Arsen Pshmakhov has won the Cup of Europe in judo, which was held in Sarajevo on March 31 and April 1, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of Karachay-Cherkessia.

In Moscow, Tamara Novikova, the mother and defender of Judge Dmitry Novikov, has stopped holding pickets for the time of consideration of her appeal by the Ministry of Justice and the Office of the Russian Government.

At least 20 people suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from March 26 to April 1, 2012. Of these, 12 persons were killed and 8 more wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On April, 2, a group of activists of youth organization of “Musavat” party held a flashmob in Baku devoted to the anniversary of dispersal of an oppositional meeting in the capital of Azerbaijan. The participants of the action demanded release of the persons convicted for participation in the meeting last year. The action was dispersed by police riot squads.