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From April 1 on, more than 160 kindergartens in the capital of Armenia, which are under the jurisdiction of the Mayoralty, became free of charge for children's parents. The decision was made by the city Board of Elders at the sitting held on March 15.

On April 1, in Astrakhan, activists of oppositional parties and movements held an action named "Monstration".

Examination of water samples near the city beach of Makhachkala has shown that the content of dissolved petroleum products is 991.15 mg per litre, which exceeds the maximum allowable concentration (MAC) in water bodies by more than 14,000 times, reports the Centre for Laboratory Analysis and Technical Measurements of the Republic of Dagestan.

The temporarily displaced persons living in Ingushetia in kasernes, barracks and garages have received prescriptions to abandon these facilities before April 15.

The Hague Court (the UN International Court of Justice) has decided that it has no jurisdiction to consider the claim of Georgia versus Russia, in which Georgia accuses Russia of non-fulfilment of the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Former Chief of Staff of the "Vostok" battalion Magomed Taisumov, who was kidnapped on March 28 by unidentified persons, was found dead. According to his relatives, his body has signs of torture.

This morning the house of the Astrakhan journalist Oleg Teplischev was visited by court marshals with the aim to notify about the court's decision to evict the journalist and his mother out of their two apartments in the building in central Astrakhan. They were given ten days to do it.

On March 31, Giorgi Tugushi, Ombudsman in Georgia, passed his report on the situation with human rights in Georgia in 2010 over to David Bakradze, Speaker of the Georgian. The 600-page document presents general trends in the area of defence of human rights and civil liberties, and specific violations at the level of state authorities, local self-governments and law enforcement bodies.

On Thursday, March 31, the imprisoned journalists Einullah Fatullaev was taken out of the dungeon of the penitentiary establishment No. 1 and sent to its general area. The journalist fears for his life, but refutes the information that he had applied to the President for pardon.

The commission on CER (conditional early relief) has decided to apply this measure to the oppositional activist Aram Baregamyan. Today, the respective documents have been sent to the penitentiary institutions "Razdan", where Baregamyan is serving his sentence.

According to the latest examination data, Dokku Umarov's wife, a doctor and a few close associates of the leader of "Imarat Kavkaz" were identified among those killed in bombardment of the militants' camp in Ingushetia.

On March, 31, an Ingush web-site "Voice of Ingushetia" underwent a DDOS-attack. It was rather powerful and the server is unable to cope with the great number of requests, administration of the web-site reports.

The participants of the meeting which passed off on March, 31, in Volgograd represented different parties and movements. Their main slogans were: "Putin must be discharged!" and "Ban "United Russia!". As for the activists' opinions concerning resignation of Roman Grebennikov, Mayor of the city, there were both unacceptance of Governor Anatoly Brovko's decision of discharging Head of Municipality and approval of this action.

Today, on March 31, Azerbaijani marks its Genocide Day in memory of the victims of the events 93 years ago, when armed forces of the Armenian nationalist party "Dashnaktsutyun", supported by the Bolshevik leadership of the Baku Soviet, headed by Stepan Shaumyan, committed mass murders and massacre of the peaceful Azerbaijani population.

As reported today by Alkhas Amirkhanov, Senior Assistant of the Head of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for Dagestan, this morning in Makhachkala a Chechen policeman was shot dead by an unidentified person.

Today, the capital of North Ossetia has hosted a picket in defence of constitutional rights of the residents of Beslan, who demand an objective investigation of the terror act on September 1, 2004, and effective justice and social protection.

Ruslan Atavov, Director of the "Simpeks" Company, who was searched as a terrorists' helper, was shot dead during a special operation in Makhachkala on January 13.

The Lithuanian mass media have released documents from the case of Egle Kusaite, who had been allegedly recruited by Apti and Aishat Magmadov, natives of Chechnya living in Russia, for committing a terror acts in Russia. According to the documents, the Lithuanian State Security Service (VSD) was the first to appeal to the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) with a request for cooperation on this case. Arvidas Anushauskas, chairman of the Seym Committee for National Security and Defence (NSDC) argues that he knows nothing about cooperation of the Lithuanian and Russian intelligence services.

On March 22, at the only secondary school in the village of Novosasetli, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, doctors of some medical commission conducted examination of children and, after putting disappointing diagnoses, suggested that parents buy corsets for their children for 500 roubles each; and many parents did it. However, as it turned out, neither the Ministry of Public Health of Dagestan nor the Ministry of Education know nothing about this commission.