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The Azerbaijani authorities have let the seriously sick rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus, who are serving their conditional sentences, out of the country.

According to a staff members of the Central Library in Grozny, four other staff members of the Central Library, including the director, could be dismissed because of the dissemination of the information about the closure of the institution. The Central Library will not be closed, and it is just moved to another place, the authorities report.

In the Lankaran District of Azerbaijan, law enforcers detained local residents Gismet Isaev and Vugar Ismailov. According to law enforcers, they are supporters of the unregistered movement "Muslim Unity" and involved in a number of crimes, including incitement to civil disobedience.

A video clip has appeared in social networks, reporting that the well-known Chechen pop singer Aza (Khazan) Bataeva has joined the "Islamic State" (IS) and is staying in the territory controlled by this terrorist organization banned in Russia. Users of social networks doubt the truthfulness of the video.

Negotiations on settlement of the Karabakh conflict are expected in the near future with the active mediation of Russia, which will get support from the OSCE Minsk Group, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They noted that the search for compromise will be based on the earlier voiced out principles.

The contesters from the republics of Northern Caucasus, who took part in the beauty contest "Miss Russia-2016" for the first time, felt reverent attitude and no bias, said Ekaterina Khachirova, a contender from Beslan.

In the village of Sogratl, Gunib District, at an attempt to escape from policemen, a militant, who was on the federal wanted list, was wounded.

The defence of Umar Butaev, a Dagestani blogger and an observer of the "Chernovik" (Draft) newspaper, could not figure out within the framework of what criminal case the blogger's house was searched and Butaev was questioned, said his advocate.

In the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, power agents have launched a counterterrorist operation (CTO) to search for and detain supposed militants.

A challenge of the chairing judge, who is considering at the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic the criminal case against the citizens of Ukraine Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, has been claimed by the defence.

One of the wounded soldiers of Karabakh, who receives medical treatment at the Yerevan Central Clinical Hospital "Muratsan", still remains in severe condition.

The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has refused to change the pre-trial restriction measure for field investigator Alan Bigaev, the fifth defendant in the case of the Vladimir Tskaev's death, who is being kept in custody.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has completed the judicial investigation of the case of Mukhamed Akhmedov, Sirazhutdin Mirzabekov and Bagir Mazalaev, who had intended to travel to Syria to participate in the "Islamic State" (IS), an organization, recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia.

In North Ossetia, residents of the Alagir District fear of a repetition of the last year's poisoning, since for the second day, muddy water flows of the taps in their houses.

Migran Pogosyan, the chief of the Armenian Service for Compulsory Enforcement of Judicial Acts, has filed a letter on his resignation to President Serzh Sargsyan. He has explained his decision by the fact that his name appears in the "Panama dossier" on offshore companies.

During the week from April 11 to April 17, 2016, 11 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus: nine perished and two were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the course of a search, conducted in the house of Umar Butaev, a Dagestani blogger and an observer of the newspaper "Chernovik", policemen confiscated his laptop and phone. His colleagues speak about the pressure, associated with the Butaev's active journalism.

According to a former advocate of the defendant accused of plotting a terror act in Moscow, he did not come to the interrogation of defendant Tagir Akhtakhanov, in the course of which he testified that other persons involved in the criminal case had manufactured explosives and stored weapons to attack the "Kyrgyzstan" cinema.

The attacks on law enforcers in the Stavropol Territory indicate the intention of the armed underground to self-reorganize and be active outside of the "hottest" republics of Northern Caucasus, state the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Dagestan's image is being hurt not by the participation of Albina Ildarova, a native of the republic, in the beauty contest of "Miss Russia-2016", but by corruption and lawlessness of law enforcers. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".