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Robert Kulumbegov, an Honoured Artist of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and Akhra Kirkinadze, a resident of the Ochamchira District of Abkhazia, perished in battles in Donbass. They were volunteers of the "Pyatnashka" battalion under the command of Akhra Avidzba.

Captain Yevgeny Lisovoi from the Kamyshin District perished in Ukraine, the district authorities reported. Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the information about at least 17 perished military personnel from the Volgograd Region has been officially confirmed.

In Russia, the institution of justice has been destroyed, courts have become a tool for reprisals against people and organizations undesirable for the authorities, and the country is returning to totalitarianism, states the Council of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*.

The “Artsakhgas” Company has resumed the supply of gas to houses and apartments of residents of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Consideration of a complaint filed by a captain of the State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan against Ali Aliev, the leader of the “Citizens and Development” Party, has been postponed again. Ali Aliev believes that the trial is being deliberately delayed so that at the end of the first term of punishment he will be given a new sentence.

Today, people have come to the building of the First Court of Appeal in Moscow, which considered a complaint against the decision to liquidate the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”.

Viktor Gavrilov, a military man from Pyatigorsk, perished in Ukraine, City Mayor Dmitry Voroshilov reported. Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, it has been reported about at least 10 natives of the Stavropol Territory who perished in Ukraine.

A Tbilisi court has sentenced each of the five figurants in the case of the attack on Lekso Lashkarava, a cameraman of the "TV-Pirveli" Company, after which he died, to five years in prison. The defendants were found guilty of assaulting the journalist and attempting to hamper his work.

After the redeployment of Azerbaijani troops near the village of Parukh, there were no armed incidents there. The civilian population left Parukh back after the autumn war of 2020, Gegam Stepanyan, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsperson, has stated.

The arrest of Eduard Ataev, an activist suspected of possessing an explosive device, was upheld by the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan.

David Gobedjishvili, a Georgian fighter, who perished in Ukraine, was buried with military honours. Authorities have done everything possible to repatriate the dead Georgian fighters, the prime minister has stated.

In a number of Nagorno-Karabakh communities, located not far from the contact line under the protection of Russian peacemakers, agricultural works have resumed. However, villagers don't feel safe and demand to withdraw Azerbaijani militaries away from their villages.

Rovshan Magomedov, a contract military serviceman from the Derbent District, has perished in Ukraine, the district head has informed. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 67 natives of Dagestan have perished there.

By handing documents from the migration case of Daud Muradov, who died after being deported to Russia, over to Russia, French authorities doomed him to torture and endangered other people, rights defenders and journalists in Chechnya, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has stated.

Documentaries, the screening of which is cancelled due to the disruption of the “Artdocfest” film festival, are now available online to viewers who have bought tickets to a Moscow cinema, an organizer announces. The list includes three films about residents of Northern Caucasus.

On April 3, units of the Azerbaijani army in the Tovuz District were shelled from the territory of Armenia, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported. The Ministry of Defence of Armenia objected that the Armenian side did not open fire.

A court sentenced employees of a penal colony in the Yaroslavl Region to different terms of imprisonment from three years to three years and four months for torturing prisoner Abubakar Tsagalaev.

During the week of March 28-April 3, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The wife of the convicted journalist, Polad Aslanov, has held a protest action near the building of the Penitentiary Service in Baku, calling to stop pressing her husband. The beating of Aslanov, which caused her wife's action, could be sanctioned by colony bosses, Fikret Djafarli, a human rights defender, has suggested.

Arrival of refugees in the Rostov Region and the death of military personnel from Southern Russia in Ukraine; trial in a case of fighters of the National Guard of Russia dismissed for refusing to go to Ukraine, and the persecution of pacifists; beginning of Ramadan; Bibilov’s statement on plans on joining South Ossetia and Russia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 28-April 3, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.