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The weapons found in the house of Akhmed Rabadanov, killed on April 26 and subsequently announced militant, were planted by militiamen, claims Rabadangadzhi Rabadanov, uncle of the diseased, resident of the village of Novy Kostek, Khasaviurt district, Dagestan, to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

A cassation appeal has been filed at the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan against the ruling of Baku court of appeal of March 10 which upheld the ruling convicting young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadzhizade who had already been sent to prison.

Ashot Arutiunian, chief of Charentsavan criminal investigation department, and police detective Moris Airapetian, suspected of involvement in the death of Vaan Khalafian who died on April 13, have been arrested in Armenia.

The public in Sochi is very concerned about the attack on Arkadi Lander, chief editor of the "Mestnaya" newspaper which took place on April 26. Some supporters of the victim, who do not trust the investigation, have involved private investigators, former militia officers, into the search for the crime organizers and executors. The Sochi communists' leader and part of Lander's colleagues claim his beating to be politically motivated.

An international group of human rights activists has addressed an open letter to the Lithuanian authorities in protest against their refusal to permit further free communication for Khadizhat and Malik Gatayevs with their adopted children from Chechnya. The letter has been sent to Daliya Gribauskaite, president of Lithuania, chair of the committee on human rights in the Lithuanian parliament and the Lithuanian commissioner on the rights of children.

The family of Gayoz Odishelidze, 51, who died after watching the hoaxed "Imedi" TV report about the "Russian invasion", is going to apply to the Chief Prosecutor's Office urging to start inquiry into the accident.

The audio record of the telephone conversation of Giorgi Arveladze, Director General of the "Imedi" TV Company, with his deputy Eka Tsamalashvili, which was disseminated two days after the scandalous report about invasion of Russian troops into Georgia, is authentical, British experts have stated.

On Monday, April 26, at 3:00 p.m., in the entrance of No. 34 in the Pirogova Street in Sochi, an attack was committed on Arkadi Lander, editor-in-chief of the Sochi-based newspaper "Mestnaya" (Local); he was severely beaten. The journalist is sure that it was an attempt to kill him because of his professional activities.

Relatives of the persons accused of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in autumn 2009 report facts of torture and psychological pressure applied to their relatives for almost two months.

In Moscow, a suspected killer of Dolgan Nikeev, a student from Kalmykia, was placed in custody. His name is not disclosed.

The Russian Federation continues keeping the first place by the number of new complaints lodged to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR): in 2009 every third complaint lodged there arrived from Russia.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) cannot take a resolution concerning the overcoming of the consequences of the 2008 conflict in South Ossetia. The two rapporteurs who spoke today gave absolutely opposite estimates and made opposite conclusions.

Khizar Bokov, 24, a resident of Karabulak, who was taken away from his house by power agents on April 21 and released on April 25, is not going to complain of his illegal detention. He is sure, same as his relatives, that for four days he was kept in Division 6 of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) engaged in fighting extremism.

In Dagestan, unidentified persons, supposedly power agents, kidnapped Magomedzagir Isagadjiev, Israpil Medzhidov and Kurban Aliev, residents of Novy Kostek village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. This was reported by their relative Magomed Ramazanov, a resident of Levashi village of the Levashi District of Dagestan.

In Grozny, a local resident found an unknown explosive device in the yard of his own house and was heavily wounded when it blew up.

In the near future, a claim will be lodged to the Basmanny Court of Moscow by a child, who remained orphan after the death of his parents in the terror act in Moscow metro on March 29.

Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), continues visiting regions of Northern Caucasus; the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation finds cancellation of juries in "terrorist cases" legal; persecutions of dissidents continue in the south of Russia; Georgia: miners are on strike, while downpours and landslips smash houses; negotiations on Karabakh conflict continue; Armenia suspends ratification of Armenian-Turkish Protocols, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of April 19-25, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, Magomed Magomedov, a resident of Mutsalaul village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, has reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that shooting is heard in the vicinity of the village.

Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said that he would take the investigation of the crime, committed at night on April 21 in Moscow as a result of which Kalmyk student Dolgan Nikeev was killed and his friend Vladimir Sanzhiev was wounded, under his personal supervision, the President's press service reports.

At her press conference on April 23 at the RIA "Novosti", Ella Pamfilova, chairperson of the board at the President of the Russian Federation on promotion of development of civil society institutes and human rights, said that unemployment and corruption in Northern Caucasus are the main causes generating extremism.