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The military exercises carried out by Azerbaijan with the use of modern Russian-made howitzers prove the possibility of new escalation of the Karabakh conflict. This opinion was expressed by Azerbaijani analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The "Russian Justice Initiative" has sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) a complaint of Anzor Mashukov, who had been sentenced in the criminal case of the attack on Nalchik. According to the human rights defenders, the article of the Convention on Human Rights concerning respect for private and family life was violated with regard to Anzor Mashukov.

Fridun Shakhpazov, who is building two schools in Dagestan at his own expense, intends to leave his business in the republic because of the constant inspections of the supervising bodies.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in the evening of May 3, a shootout occurred in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan. Three persons were killed, including Umar Sabuev, the leader of a local armed grouping.

In Grozny, the court, engaged in consideration in the criminal case against Ukrainian citizens Stanislav Klykh and Nikolai Karpyuk, has postponed the pleadings to May 5, since their advocates did not come to the trial.

On May 3, Adlan Varaev, a well-known athlete, Vice-President of the Russian Wrestling Federation, disappeared in the high-mountainous Itum-Kali District of Chechnya. His car was found near a cliff. The search for Adlan Varaev involves law enforcers, rescue workers and volunteers from the local community.

One of the three men killed in the Kizilyurt District was identified as Umar Sabuev, the leader of a local armed grouping. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

In case if Yerevan recognizes the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia will lose its mandate to conduct negotiations within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group. This was stated by Khikmet Gadjiev, the chief of the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

Mardiros Demerchyan, a builder engaged in construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi, and his advocates started to examine the case of false denunciation against policemen. The defenders believe that the case includes the examination, which has no relation to the charge of false denunciation.

The criminal case instituted on the basis of publications about the offshore scandal will not be brought to the end, and no resonant resignations and lawsuits will follow it. This opinion was expressed by Armenian experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". According to the experts, the institution of the criminal case is pure formality.

Ramazan Djalaldinov, a resident of Chechnya, who complained in his video appeal to Russian President Putin about corruption in the village of Kenkhi, said that his mother was offered to tell for money to journalists that her son Ramazan was mentally ill.

Ramazan Djalaldinov, the author of the video message to President of Russia about corruption in the Chechen village of Kenkhi, wrote an appeal to Yuri Chaika, the head of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), with a complaint about the insult of him by Ramzan Kadyrov, the acting head of the republic.

Armenian parliamentarians have presented to the government the bill "On Recognition of the Republic of Artsakh". Its consideration is scheduled for May 5, said a governmental source.

Starting from May 5, in connection with the forthcoming May 10 actions related to the Memory and Grief Day, all the mosques of Chechnya are reading the Koran.

In Makhachkala, in the course of a domestic conflict, a relative of a senior police officer has suffered, said a law enforcement source, adding that the man was hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

Last night, the Azerbaijani party violated the ceasefire agreement, by using, in particular, calibre 82 mm mortars, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated. The Armenian MoD has also reported shelling of the border by Azerbaijan.

John Kirby, the spokesman of the US State Department has called on Russian authorities to release the Rostov journalist Sergey Reznik, who was sentenced in January 2015 to three years in prison.

Igor Vasiliev, the leader of the Sochi Branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), has addressed the reception office of President Vladimir Putin asking him to take action in connection with the placement of Alexei Goryachkin, an assistant of Sergey Obukhov, a State Duma MP, into a temporary detention facility (known as the IVS).

Elena Nikitina, the organizer of the April 29 picket in the Lazarevskoye District, is still in the intensive care unit, as prescribed by her doctors. After discharge from the hospital, she intends to appeal to the prosecutor's office with a complaint about policemen's actions, said her advocate.

A new minivan was given to Bashir Pliev, a resident of Ingushetia, who in March was transporting journalists and human rights defenders in the region together with them fell victim to an attack. The minivan will be insured, notes Igor Kalyapin, the leader of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture".