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In the past two days, information was circulated among users of WhatsApp in Chechnya about the mass poisoning with drinking water in the Gudermes District. Local residents say that they fear to drink water from the tap. Chechen authorities have refuted this information; and law enforcers began searching for those who spread these rumours.

Yet at the end of 2015, the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya had the information that Khazan (Aza) Bataeva, a well-known Chechen singer, might be in Syria. This was reported by an official from the Chechen law enforcement bodies.

The house of Rasmin Magomedov, suspected of setting on fire a school building in the village of Djuli, collapsed after law enforcers had defused a bomb inside it. This was reported by local residents.

The problem of compensation for the damage caused by the special operation carried out in Nalchik in August 2015 has been solved. About 2.3 million roubles are allocated for the above purpose. 1.45 million roubles are planned to be paid to citizens who have lost their properties.

The formulations of the question for the referendum on the entry of South Ossetia to Russia will not affect the position of the Kremlin, which is not going to accept a new region right now. This opinion was expressed by political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Rasmin Magomedov, a resident of Dagestan, who has committed arson of a school building in the village of Djuli, is a militant of the "Southern" grouping. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

The judge has scheduled for May 4 the pleadings in the case against Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh. This was reported by advocate Dokka Itslaev.

The case against a group of Muslims, mostly natives of Northern Caucasus, accused of plotting a terror act at the "Kirgizia" cinema, has been completely fabricated. This was declared at the press conference in Moscow by relatives and advocates of the defendants.

After the distribution of the book funds of the Grozny Central City Library, the institution itself will not be saved. The Central City Library is closed because of the high cost of its premises. This opinion was expressed by the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Kabardino-Balkaria, 40 residents of the village of Verkhny Akbash were brought to the local ROVD (District Interior Division) and wrote explanatory letters on self-acquisition of land plots. Protocols on administrative violations were drawn up against 16 villagers.

The bodies of three Armenian military men were found beheaded during the April combat actions in Nagorno-Karabakh, reports the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD). According to human rights defender Larisa Alaverdyan, those incidents contain signs of a war crime and genocide.

With the start of the spring flood, the Volzhskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) began to discharge water. According to experts, the spring water discharges will not result in flooding of villages and towns and will have a positive impact on the state of the environment.

Last night, in the village of Djuli of the Tabasaran District, unidentified persons set fire to an empty school building and robbed a shop. This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies. According to them, the attacks involved militants.

During the last night, the Armenian side has violated the ceasefire regime 120 times. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD). The Nagorno-Karabakh MoD reported on 70 attacks registered from the Azerbaijani side. The Armenian MoD reported on 16 attacks.

The Presidium of the Krasnodar Territorial Court has cancelled the decision of the first instance court concerning the claim of pensioner Nina Dubovaya. Earlier, the District Court has returned to the woman her land plot.

The Armenian police began a check in connection with a reference in the "Panamanian dossier" on offshore companies to Migran Pogosyan, the retired chief of the Armenian Service for Compulsory Enforcement of Judicial Acts. The Armenian law does not prohibit officials or MPs to hold shares in commercial companies, emphasizes economic analyst Hayk Gevorgyan.

Investigators suspect Ali Kveshov, detained on April 18, of involvement in the murder of Magomedgadji Zaidov, the chief engineer of the agricultural company "Sogratl", who was shot dead in the Gunib District in Dagestan on August 20, 2015. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

According to the appeal of 14 international organizations, the Khadija Ismayilova's case proves the suppression of freedom of speech in Azerbaijan.

Since the beginning of 2016, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) found no local residents who intended to join Syrian militants. Meanwhile, in the territory of North Ossetia, law enforcers detained two men involved in combat actions in Syria, and one more man was killed.

Six residents of the Republic of Ingushetia are wanted for alleged involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF). The maximum penalty stipulated under the above charge is 10 years of imprisonment.