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The case of a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, who is accused of trying to leave for Syria to join the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS), banned in Russia, has been sent to the court.

The outcomes of the constitutional referendum in Turkey will have a negative impact on the political processes in Azerbaijan and lead to strengthening of authoritarianism and anti-Western rhetoric in the country. This was stated by the politicians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The today's meeting of Andrei Bocharov, the Governor of the Volgograd Region, with small and medium businessmen ended immediately as the Governor completed his more than two-hour-long speech. The protesting entrepreneurs tried to attract his attention, but they were not allowed to ask questions.

The ninth suspect of involvement in organizing the terror act in Saint Petersburg was detained in the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region, the FSB Public Relations Centre has reported.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) is checking the information about threats to journalists of the “Novaya Gazeta” in connection with their publications about the oppression of gays in Chechnya.

The Sochi court found Suren Edigarov guilty of holding an unsanctioned action and arrested him for eight days. In his turn, Edigarov asserts that activists were detained as a result of a provocation.

The authorities would not start dialogue with the protesters against the “Platon” system, said the truckers of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), noting that they are ready to protest again.

The family of Djakhar Bisultanov, a resident of the Grozny District, cannot find him for a week. He disappeared on April 11 after he went to Khasavyurt to meet his girlfriend, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported.

The case of plotting of a terror act in the Moscow "Kyrgyzstan" cinema was fabricated. This was stated by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". 15 persons sentenced in the case, including natives of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and the Southern Federal District (SFD), were recognized by the HRC as political prisoners.

After the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced its decision on the complaints filed by the victims of the seizure of the Beslan school, people started posting comments in social networks with condemnation of the complainants. Khadjimurat Gatsalov, Mufti of North Ossetia, spoke in support of the mothers of Beslan.

In Chechnya, employees of public institutions have called their participation in the voluntary Saturday works (subbotniks) organized by the authorities as "voluntary-compulsory." During six weeks, about 400,000 people took part in the large-scale cleaning of the city. This was reported by the administration of the Chechen leader and the government of Chechnya.

During the week of April 10-16, 2017, three persons perished in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; and no information about the wounded ones was received. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In Astrakhan, tenants of a dilapidated house in the Trusovsky District demand to resettle them to a safe house. The resettlement will take place with the availability of financing and free premises in the manoeuvrable fund, officials from the City Mayor's Office report.

The "Rosneft" cannot transfer its assets to Chechnya for free, since, apart from the state, other shareholders also hold shares of the corporation. This was explained by economists. Auditors, who estimated assets of the amount of 12.5 billion roubles, did not come to Chechnya and did not evaluate the conditions for oil production there, report officials from the regional subsurface management department.

The activist has held a protest action in front of the construction site of high-rise buildings, where the construction works were conducted even on a day off. This was reported by the of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On the International Circus Day, Krasnodar animal defenders urged townspeople not to attend the circus shows, where animals are involved; and demanded from the authorities to stop shooting stray dogs, but use sterilization instead.

Doctors have diagnosed new diseases in Faig Amirov, the financial director of the “Azadlyg” newspaper, a figurant in the case of supporters of the preacher Fethullah Gülen. In the conditions of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), he cannot receive the necessary dietary food, said his advocate Fakhraddin Mekhtiev.

After discharge of two patients injured by the explosion in Saint Petersburg’s metro, 38 people still remain hospitalized. Two of them are still in grave condition, Anna Mityanina, the Vice-Governor of Saint Petersburg, has reported today.

Oleg Desyatov, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), and a female volunteer of the "Greenpeace" were detained during a search carried out on April 14 in an apartment of Pavel Suganeev, a resident of Krasnodar and a member of the "EcoWatch". This was reported by Alexei Avanesyan, an advocate of Pavel Suganeyev.

Ruslan Zeitullaev, a defendant in the case of a "Hizb ut-Tahrir" unit, intends to continue his hunger strike at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Rostov-on-Don until all his demands are met.