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On April 25, the city of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) will host a concert, dances and a flash mob on the occasion of the Circassian Flag Day. Circassians are scattered across many countries and especially need such a unifying symbol as a flag, the organizers of the events believe.

In Yerevan, a torchlight march in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire was held under the motto "Recognition, Condemnation, Compensation!" The marchers called for seeking compensations from Turkey.

The victory of Adam Kadyrov in the fight with Aslan Bittirov was staged; and Bittirov's coaches were not independent when deciding to stop the fight, Nazhmudin Berbekov, the head of the boxing federation of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has suggested.

The health condition of Gusein Abdullaev, a former Azerbaijani MP, who is serving his term in a colony, is critical, but the Penitentiary Service would not send doctors to him, his advocate has stated. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has demanded information from Azerbaijani authorities about Abdullaev's state of health and the measures taken to provide him with medical care.

The change in the US geopolitical strategy and the deterioration of US-Turkish relations increase the chances that President Joe Biden will pronounce the word "genocide" on April 24, Ruben Safrastyan, a Turkologist, and Suren Sargsyan, an Americanist, assert.

Investigators are checking the application of Timur Mazaev, the editor-in-chief of the "Ossetia News" about the threats he received from a son of the former head of North Ossetia. Timur's colleagues find it necessary to achieve punishment of the author of threats.

The authorities of Armenia did not react in any way to the refusal of Russian delegates to discuss the problem around the return of prisoners of war (POWs) by Azerbaijan, as they are afraid to worsen relations with Moscow, Armenian political analysts note.

Ella Kesaeva, the co-chair of the “Voice of Beslan” public committee, and three other activists, who had been on hunger strike with the demand to let a doctor visit oppositionist Alexei Navalny in a penal colony, stopped their protest action.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) granted the complaints lodged by journalists Avaz Zeinalov and Elchin Gasanov, as well as activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev. As a result, the Strasbourg Court obliged the Azerbaijan’s authorities to pay compensation to the complainants in the amount of 33,350 euros. For almost 20 years of Azerbaijan being under the jurisdiction of the ECtHR, sanctions for 20 million euros have been announced against the country, says Khalid Agaliev, a lawyer of the Media Rights Institute.

The programme of professional training for residents of Northern Caucasian for their employment, announced by the Worldskills Foundation, will not meet expectations, as there are few jobs for highly skilled workers in the region, some analysts suggest. Their opponents argue that high-tech professions are in demand everywhere, and specialists can work online.

A son of the leader of Chechnya calls on those who doubt his fair victory over a boxer from Kabardino-Balkaria to bet on the winner in a new fight.

Amid pardoning political prisoners, Georgian authorities should not pardon the policemen who participated in the harsh dispersal of the rally in June 2019, human rights defenders have stated.

On April 24, US President Joe Biden intends to voice his attitude to the events of 1915, which the House of Representatives of the Congress had recognized as genocide, The Wall Street Journal has reported. More than 100 members of the Congress have called on Biden to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

A court in Volgograd has arrested Maria Khudoyarova, an activist of the local Alexei Navalny's office, for 25 days; she was detained after an action in support of the opposition leader.

The boxing match of Adam Kadyrov, a Ramzan Kadyrov's son, with his rival from Kabardino-Balkaria was preceded by a fight in which he defeated an athlete from Uganda who did not resist him, bloggers assert.

The "Movement to Save Fatherland" has demanded to release those detained after Pashinyan's visit to the Syunik Region. More than 50 people were detained, including the head of the Megri community, oppositionists have reported. A clash of law enforcers with supporters of the opposition occurred near the building of the Armenian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO).

The Moscow police refused to investigate a case of a female native of Ingushetia, who was forcibly returned to their homeland by her father and brother after she had participated in a rally of Alexei Navalny’s supporters, the “Russian LGBT Network” reported. Human rights defenders filed a complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office.

In Rostov-on-Don, a military court has extended until July 28 the arrest of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), accused of financing terrorism.

On April 21, detentions at rallies in support of Alexei Navalny took place in at least 11 cities in Southern Russia, including Anapa and Novorossiysk. Sochi is one of the six Russian cities with the largest number of detainees, the “OVD-Info” reported.

Residents of various regions of Chechnya, including women, are being forcibly taken to watch football matches of the “Akhmat” Football Club (FC) in Grozny. Chechen women complain that they often have to get home on their own after the football matches.