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On April 10, the Republic's Hospital accepted four young men, who received gunshot wounds in the Tbilisi district of Vedzisi, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

Magomed Khazbiev's advocates have filed a complaint with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ingushetia against the decision of the Magas District Court, according to which Khazbiyev's arrest has been again extended.

Seven human rights organizations from different countries have called to release Bogdan Kalyussky, also known as Salman Sever, a Ukrainian citizen, a Muslim activist and a blogger, arrested in Yerevan.

The defence succeeded in requesting the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) a re-consideration of the complaint about torture of Efendi Alimov, accused of setting fire to the district administration building in the Dagestani village of Rutul, his advocate reported. Investigators announced that the information on torture had not been confirmed. 

Today, Anastasia Shilikhina, a resident of the Volgograd Region and Yulduz Alieva, a native of Dagestan, have been sentenced to five and six years of imprisonment respectively on charges of financing Syrian militants.

Today, about 30 people have marched along streets of Yerevan protesting against the nomination of the former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan for the post of Prime Minister.

Students of the Azerbaijan Academy of Labour and Social Relations are threatened with problems at the exams if they do not come to the Academy on the voting day. The Meydan TV has reported today, referring to the Academy' spokeswoman that students should vote at their alma mater.

The agitation campaign before the early presidential election in Azerbaijan was dull and inconspicuous, the authorities gave up active propaganda, so as not to draw unnecessary attention to the factual absence of rivalry, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have confirmed.

Leonid Mikhelson, a businessman and a native of Kaspiysk, and Suleiman Kerimov, a senator from Dagestan, lost more than 1,6 billion US dollars as a result of the US sanctions imposed on Russia on April 6, the Forbes has estimated.

In Azerbaijan, today, any agitation for the presidential election is prohibited starting from 8:00 a.m. The voting will take place on April 11.

Today, at a meeting of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov has reported that in Ingushetia, the special services prevented a terror act at a polling station on the day of presidential election.

On April 9, Khabib Nurmagomedov, who won the UFC Light Heavyweight Title, arrived in Dagestan. At the Makhachkala airport, the athlete was greeted by relatives, friends, fans and representatives of the Dagestani authorities.

On the anniversary of persecution of gays in Chechnya, activists have installed a memorial sign near the permanent representative office of Chechnya in Moscow.

A soldier Narek Arutyunyan was killed by a shot from the Azerbaijani side, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has stated.

Everyday protests against the preservation of power in the hands of Serzh Sargsyan will be held in all Yerevan districts until the election of the Prime Minister by the MPs on April 17, oppositionists have announced.

Today, about 500 people gathered in Freedom Square in Yerevan with a demand to prevent Serzh Sargsyan from taking the post of Prime Minister. The acting head of the Armenian government has confirmed today that Serzh Sargsyan will be nominated to the post of the Premiere.

Abu-Walid Al-Shishani, who had been treated by Iraqi mass media as the "right hand" of the leader of the "Islamic State", a terrorist organization, banned in Russian by the court, was killed by the Iraqi armed forces in the north of the country. Abu-Walid Al-Shishani, or Murad Margoshvili, was a native of the Pankisi Gorge; his relatives have not yet received information about his death.

After a meeting with an officer of the Yerevan Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Maxim Baidak, a Muslim activist, blogger and political analyst, also known as Salman Sever, asked for asylum in Armenia.

Members of the movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) held a constituent congress of the same political party and elected Ilgar Mamedov to be its leader.

Today, Yunus-Bek Evkurov has announced that Ingushetia has managed to eliminate the hotbeds of extremism. However, according to the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", in 2017, the number of victims to the conflict in the republic increased by more than a quarter.