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Activists of three NGOs from the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Armenia have marked the anniversary of the April 2016 war with a motor rally. They called on the authorities to establish the Day of the Defender of Combat Positions on April 2 in memory of the perished warriors.

After detention of protesters in Ingushetia, an activist, Batyr Bogatyryov held a solo picket in Moscow, demanding paying attention to the absence of struggle against corruption in the republic.

By resorting to repressions, Ingush authorities are depriving people of their right to assembly, Facebook users have commented on the news about the arrest of Akhmed Barakhoev. Some of them believe that the court judgement is contrary to the Ingush custom of honouring the elderly.

Being kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), Akhmed Barakhoev will suffer a negative impact on his health state because of his diseases which are to be treated on an outpatient basis, reports Basir Ozdoev, an advocate of the activist.

Today, the court has found that Barakh Chemurziev, the head of the movement "Support of Ingushetia", had violated the rules for organizing a rally in Magas.

During two days, in Ingushetia, three leaders of protests and six participants of a spontaneous rally on the "Caucasus" highway were sentenced to 10-day arrests.

Suspects killed today in Kabardino-Balkaria were involved in an attack on policemen in the Baksan District and in the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has informed.

Djansukh Adleiba, the leader of the initiative group to close the landfill in Sukhumi, was detained in Abkhazia. Local residents went out to the rally in his defence; and after a few hours Adleiba was released.

After searches, law enforcers detained the Ingush oppositionists, Bagaudin Khautiev and Zarifa Sautieva, activists have reported.

On April 2, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) dismissed the complaint against the arrest of Bairam Mamedov. After his allegations of torture, the BCA obliged the Prosecutor's Office to investigate the activist's complaints. His defence doubts that an efficient investigation will be conducted.

The participants of the commemoration of those killed during the April 2016 war in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) laid flowers to the warriors' monuments; and memorial lessons were held in the educational establishments of the unrecognized republic.

The driver's shelling attack on policemen committed in the Baksan District has become the third armed incident since the start of the year in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

A car driver opened fire on the policemen, who stopped him to check documents in the Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The shooter managed to escape, a source said.

A sister of Omar Abdurashidov, a resident of Makhachkala, accused of financing terrorism, has held a picket demanding a medical examination of her brother for torture traces, and to punish the guilty law enforcers. An advocate has stated that the latter are pulling time for the wounds to heal up.

The TV reports about the charity actions of the Akhmat Kadyrov Fund are contrary to Islamic canons, which forbid any promotion by means of good deeds, Orientalists believe.

By using force during the detention of Roman Gabaev in Sochi, who refused to go to the police station, law enforcers acted within the bounds of the law, the "Committee against Torture" (CaT) has concluded. Gabaev insists that he resisted the unjustified detention.

300 temporarily displaced persons from Abkhazia, who have occupied apartments in a residential complex in Tbilisi, have demanded to remove the police cordon and let an advocate and journalists visit them. The developer has blamed them for spoiling property in the building.

During the week from March 25 to March 31, 2019, no casualties and victims were reported in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

The spread of 3000 food packages among poor families on behalf of the Akhmat Kadyrov Fund was not such a large-scale action to tell about it on local TV, residents of Chechnya believe.

In Magas, the court arrested for 10 days four participants of a spontaneous rally in highway at the entrance to Nazran. Other two protestors were fined.