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In the evening of April 27, at the Russian-Ukrainian border, there was an attempt to detain Vera Savchenko, and FSB agents seized her passport. After the incident, the woman left the checkpoint in a car with diplomatic state licence plates and went to Rostov-on-Don.

Today, near-border villages have been shelled in Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh. One killed person and eight others wounded were reported.

The Azerbaijani government fails to comply with its obligations in the field of human rights, and there are serious problems with the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Azerbaijan. This was stated by participants of the forum "The role and place of international courts in the legal system of Azerbaijan."

In Volgograd, several families with many children are not able to use the land plots allocated to them, since they are not suitable for construction. This problem was discussed during a roundtable held on April 27. Officials were also invited to take part in the roundtable.

The procedure for extradition of Nadezhda Savchenko, a Ukrainian aviator, sentenced in Russia to 22 years of imprisonment, has been launched. This was reported by Mark Feighin, an advocate of Nadezhda Savchenko. His client has already received the documents to be filled in.

A former policeman Artyom Khatukhov said that today he was beaten up in the city of Terek in the building of the supplementary office of the "Sberbank" (Savings Bank). The police said that his application was being checked.

The decision of the Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala, which approved the suspension of the inquiry into the murder of journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, was upheld by the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan.

The Terter District of Azerbaijan has resumed power supply to 11 villages, broken because of the damage of a substation as a result of shelling. The houses damaged by shelling will be repaired at the expense of the state, officials said.

Zhanna, the daughter of Boris Nemtsov, has addressed the investigating authorities asking them to resume the inquiry into the murder of the politician and to issue formal charges to law enforcement officer Ruslan Geremeev.

69 of them will be released from their jails after the pardon decree; the remaining will have their terms reduced.

Last night Martakert was shelled from the Azerbaijani side, said the head of the city. According to his version, the shells damaged the power line and two houses.

The second person killed by the explosion in a Yerevan bus was the 55-year-old Ruden Balyan, said the Investigating Committee of Armenia. Investigators believe that Balyan was the culprit of the explosion. Six victims of the explosion are still treated at medical centres.

Starting late evening of April 26 and throughout the whole last night, the city of Terter and front-line village were again shelled, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the Terter district administration.

From April 28 to May 1, the participants and guests of the motor race "Grand Prix Russia Formula 1" in Sochi will use the "Lastochka" (Swallow) trains free of charge.

At night of April 27, as a result of Azerbaijan's shelling, a serviceman was killed, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported today, adding that last night the units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces shelled Martakert and other dwelling settlements.

Yerevan has hosted a protest action against territorial concessions and deployment of peacemakers in the Karabakh conflict zone. According to organizers, about 50 persons took part in it. Their march in Yerevan passed without incidents, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The Armenia's Investigating Committee has suggested that the explosion in the bus in Yerevan had an occasional and domestic character. The version of a terror act is no longer considered, the National Security Service (NSS) has confirmed.

Searches were conducted in the houses of all the passengers of the Yerevan bus, in which the explosion occurred; and in the apartment of one of them explosives were found, a source from the Investigating Committee of Armenia told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April has marked 95 years since the time Soviet power was established in Georgia. This was preceded by invasion of the Red Army in 1921, treated by Georgian historians as an occupation of the country.

This year, Karachay-Cherkessia has celebrated the Day of Circassian Flag with larger-scale events as compared with the past years. This was stated by public activists of Karachay-Cherkessia.