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Despite declarations of Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, that the women living in temporary residence centres (TRCs) "have forgotten what is housekeeping and house work, and would not take a brush," the tent camps are in better order that the central cities of Grozny, the "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" (Independent Newspaper).

On April 25, in the course of operative-search actions in temporary residence centres of refugees in the settlement of Ordzhonikidzevskaya of the Sunzhenskiy District of Ingushetia, two forced migrants from the Chechen Republic - Bislan Maaev, born in 1981, and Aslambek Ahmedov, born in 1968, were detained.

Liquidators of the Chernobyl accident implications from Rostov-on-Don think that replacement of privileges for monetary payments is another deception of the government.

Experts think that Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov's instruction to liquidate Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) refugees may be fair to some extent.

According to human rights activists, authorities of Chechnya have started to close regional Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) of forced migrants who have no other roof over their head.

Before May 28 - the Republic Day - Ilkham Aliev, president of Azerbaijan, may sign another Pardon Decree. Elmira Akhundova, MP and member of the Pardon Commission under the president of the Republic, told about it in her talk with journalists.

Elchin Bekhbudov, chairman of the Committee Against Tortures in Azerbaijan, jointly with Bairam Sadykhov, his deputy, conducted a monitoring of the disciplinary battalion located in the Salianskiy District and subordinated to the Chief Administration of Military Police.

Eduard Mktrchyan, Akhmad Choloyan and Vadim Karastelyov, members of the "Novorossisk Human Rights Committee" departed from Novorossisk to Krasnodar to take part in a picket against militia voluntarism committed in the village of Gulkevichi.

In Khasavyurt (Dagestan), the court process on human rights activist Osman Boliev, head of the Dagestan regional public organization "Romashka," accused of storage, acquisition and bearing of firearms, will continue on Monday, April 24.

On April 21, about 1 p.m., not far from Erebuni police station in Yerevan, 12 unidentified persons, eight of them in masks, stopped the car of Aram Karapetyan, chairman of the "Novye Vremena" (New Times) Armenian Party, and his accompanying cars.

Prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory, has inspected, together with Alexander Korobeinikov, Chief Federal Inspector for the Stavropol Territory of the machinery of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the South Federal District, the observance of the requirements of the law at enforcement of criminal punishments at the Federal State Institution - Corrective Colony No. 2 of the Administration of the Federal Punishment Enforcement Service for the Stavropol Territory.

In Dagestan, in the town of Khasavyurt, the trial continues on the case of Osman Boliev, human rights activist, head of the Dagestan regional public organization "Romashka," accused of storage, acquisition and bearing of firearms.

On April 19 in the afternoon, Eisa Umaev, father of Ilman Umaev and uncle of Anzor Umaev, killed the day before after detainment by the officials of the MIA of Chechnya, was released and returned home to the village of Sayasan.

On April 21, the Jury of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ingushetia acquitted Magomed Aspiev, accused of committing the crimes covered by Articles 209, part 2, 285, part 3, and 222, part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (CCRF).

The parliament of Chechnya has declared that the problem of missing people could not be addressed without setting up an inter-branch commission at the federal level.

The Committee "Civil Assistance" received additional information on yesterday's kidnapping and murdering of citizens of the village of Sayasan, Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya.

Today, the editorial board of the "Caucasian Knot" received information from the Committee "Civil Assistance" about the events in the Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya.

Valentina Melnikova, Executive Secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia (UCSMR) stated that the authorities are planning to stop the public organization "Soldiers' Mothers of Russia" in a judicial procedure.

The sitting of the Constitutional Court of Armenia that ended late on April 18 decided to satisfy the suit of Armen Arutyunyan, a human rights defender.

he Civil Assistance Committee has provided Caucasian Knot with the information on abduction and murder of Sajasan village residents (Nozhaj-Jurt district, Chechnya).