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The police pushed back protesters who tried to break into the building of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) in Yerevan. Relatives of prisoners of war (POWs) and soldiers missed in action demanded from military heads to go out to meet them.

The version that Ibragim Temirbaev, a former Mayor of the city of Argun seems plausible, since earlier there were reports that he fell out of Ramzan Kadyrov's favour and about his imprisonment, analysts believe.

The documentary "Under Same Sun" by François Jacob, a Canadian filmmaker, about Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and confrontation around Nagorno-Karabakh is objectively covering the positions of both parties. The author has managed to maintain neutrality, the audience of the "Artdocfest" festival has pointed out.

Relatives of the Armenian prisoners of war (POWs), who on April 8 failed to welcome the return of another group of soldiers from Azerbaijan at the airport, joined the protesters outside the building of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The threats received by Dmitry Glukhovsky, the scriptwriter of the serial "Topi" (Moors), from Chechen Internet users have appeared amid the growth of general aggression in the society, Valery Borschov, a human rights defender, believes.

Irina Vasilieva, the author of the film "25 Years of Solitude", told the love story of an Abkhaz veteran. The documentary about Abkhazia turned out to be unexpectedly far from politics, spectators have noted. Irina plans to organize the film screening in Abkhazia.

The Makhachkala court has again refused to satisfy the complaint lodged by Murtazali Gasanguseinov, who is seeking criminal prosecution of the ex-chief of the Shamil ROVD (District Interior Division). Gasanguseinov has stated that law enforcers are covering up his sons' murder.

During five years, the Georgia General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has made no progress in the investigation of his kidnapping in five years, the Azerbaijani journalist, Afghan Mukhtarly, who arrived in Tbilisi to testify, has stated. He is sure that he was kidnapped with the consent of Georgian authorities.

The health state of Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed in a penal colony is deteriorating, and his transfer to a hospital is being delayed, a mother of the prisoner reports.

Nizamali Suleimanov, an activist of the “Musavat” Party, was arrested because of a fabricated conclusion of a narcological examination conducted two months ago, claimed Arzulla Buludlu, the leader of the Surakhany regional organization of the “Musavat” Party.

In Chechnya, a court extended for a month the detention in custody of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, and their defence filed an appeal against the court’s decision. Moreover, according to an advocate, the defence has also filed a complaint about the threat to the lives of the arrested young men, because their relatives are being persuaded to commit a so-called “honour killing.”

On April 5 and 6, the film "Khan Yu" describing the life of people in a Chechen village was screened within the “Artdocfest” documentary film festival, with an increased audience on the second day, organizers reported. According to them, after a film about a Chechen gay was removed from the screening, there were no attempts to disrupt other premieres.

After a conversation with a theologian, two women from the village of Vedeno and a woman from Urus-Martan repented of practicing occult services, the “Grozny” TV Channel reported.

Azerbaijan has handed over the remains of a soldier to Karabakh rescuers. The number of bodies and remains found has reached 1530, including 27 civilians, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) for Nagorno-Karabakh reports on Facebook.

Alaif Gasanov, an Azerbaijani lawyer, has filed a lawsuit against the Azerbaijani Bar Association (ABA) with a demand to restore his membership in this body. The ABA does not accept Gasanov into its ranks on a far-fetched pretext, a member of the Civil Society Platform and the head of the Centre for Monitoring Political Prisoners assert.

Some Instagram users have criticized the Dagestan police for publishing a video in which a law enforcer is scolding a woman from Makhachkala who sold illegal substances to teenagers. Their opponents have stood up for the police; and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) explained that the video was made public for edifying purposes.

The remains of Aram Mkrtchyan, a basketball player of the Armenian national team, who perished in the Karabakh war in the fall of 2020, have been buried in Stepanakert. He had volunteered for the war and perished presumably in the vicinity of Varanda, his friends have reported.

The appointed reconsideration of the claim put forward by human rights defenders against the investigators who had refused to check the threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov does not guarantee that his statements will be really examined. This was stated by Oleg Orlov, a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and Dmitry Makarov, a co-chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG).

The Chechen Supreme Court (SC) has ruled to reconsider the claim of human rights defenders against the investigators who had refused to check the threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov.

Fatima Khazueva, the finalist of the beauty contest, who enjoys Ramzan Kadyrov's favour, owns a luxurious mansion in Grozny; she, along with Ramzan's wife, possesses apartments in elite residential complexes in Moscow. This is stated in the investigation of the edition named "Project".