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Georgia has received a questionnaire to be answered in order to become candidate country for the European Union (EU), although the Georgian authorities had expected that the EU would issue this questionnaire only in a few years, Salome Zurabishvili has stated.

Svetlana Anokhina, a journalist, who has left Dagestan because of threats, reports about law enforcers' visit to the house where her elderly mother lives. They asked her about Svetlana's posts about events in Ukraine.

The establishment of a peacemakers' post on Mount Karaglukh is not a guarantee against an Azerbaijan's strike, but it provides Russian militaries with a positional advantage that has a deterrent role, Armenian military analysts believe. In their turn, Azerbaijani military experts have treated the post as the result of a Russian-Azerbaijani compromise.

Alexander Mukhortov, a resident of Sochi, who complained about received threats after he told media about torturing inmates in a Saratov colony, and achieved his transfer to Adygea, is in an isolation ward in inhuman conditions, his wife has stated.

Since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, it became known about the deaths of at least 142 natives of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and 58 residents of the Southern Federal District (SFD); these data were obtained as a result of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on the officially confirmed information.

Anatoly Bibilov made use of his administrative resources to exclude real rivals from the presidential race; however, the votes of their supporters helped Alan Gagloev to win the first round of election in South Ossetia, the journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia condemned the speeches of Russian political analysts on the issue of Abkhazia joining Russia and threatened to recognize authors of those speeches as undesirable persons on the territory of the republic. The state sovereignty of Abkhazia is indisputable, the republic’s MFA declares.

Georgy Eprikyan from the village of Novo-Georgievskoye perished during the special military operation in Ukraine, the administration of the Mozdok District reported. The authorities confirmed the information about at least 34 soldiers from North Ossetia who perished in Ukraine.

Analysts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” suggest that Alan Gagloev will become the winner in the second round of the presidential election in South Ossetia.

More than 12,500 refugees arrived in the Rostov Region from the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR, respectively) over a day, border guards reported.

Echoes of the situation in Ukraine in Southern Russia: the arrival of refugees, the death of militaries, the persecution of pacifists; consideration of the appeal filed by the HRC “Memorial”* in the case on its liquidation; talks between Ilham Aliev and Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 4-10, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The presidential election in South Ossetia is illegitimate, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated today, speaking in support of Georgia's territorial integrity.

In Krasnodar, Olga Aksyonova, an activist, was charged with discrediting the Russian Armed Forces after she lay down on the ground with her hands roped behind her back near a billboard with the inscription "Za Nashikh" (For Ours) in memory of those killed in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

Participants of the spontaneous action in Tskhinvali told the "Caucasian Knot" that they would not allow any falsification of voting outcomes.

Oleg Orlov, a human rights defender, who went out on April 11 with a poster onto Red Square in Moscow, was accused by law enforcers of violating the rules of picketing.

Tamara Grodnikova, a pensioner, has held a solo picket in Volgograd calling on the authorities to create a civilian commission to travel to Bucha and make public the findings about the massacres of civilians committed there.

Elections in South Ossetia are illegal and will have no legal force, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated. A similar statement was made by the MFAs of Lithuania and Latvia.

The pardoning act concerning 15 prisoners, including six citizens of Ukraine, was signed by the Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili.

On Saturday (April 9), Tbilisi commemorated the 21 persons, who perished during the dispersal by Soviet troops of the rally on April 9, 1989. The City Council named 10 streets after those who perished in those events.

Since February 24, 2022, a total of 6163 citizens of Ukraine have arrived in Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Migration Service has informed.