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The defence has filed an appeal against the court's decision on the arrest of Maxim Panfilov, a resident of Astrakhan, accused of involvement in the mass riot in Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. This was reported by his advocate Sergey Panchenko.

The search for a soldier of the Defence Army, missing in action during the escalation of the conflict, is still underway in the area of the contact line of troops. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The "Islamic State" (IS) has not yet claimed responsibility for the attack on the ROVD (District Interior Division) in the Stavropol Territory, emphasized the experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot". The experts suppose that the attack could be committed by residents of the region without combat experience, who had fallen under the influence of the IS propaganda.

The persons, who attacked the Novoselitsk ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Stavropol Territory, have been officially identified as earlier convicted Zaur Akaev, Ramazan Khaibulaev and Isai Abdulatipov, said the spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The bodies of perished servicemen, handed over to Nagorno-Karabakh by the Azerbaijani party in the presence of representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), had traces of torture and mockery, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

The attack on Novoselitsk ROVD (District Interior Division) a "presentation of capacities of the IS unit, operating in the Stavropol Territory," said Andrei Serenko, the Chairman of the Expert Council of the Research Foundation of Electoral Politics.

Law enforcement bodies have appointed a check for the involvement of the Imam from the Novoselitsk District, Stavropol Territory, to the today's attack on the local ROVD (District Interior Division). Earlier, explosives were found in the Imam's house, anonymous sources

Illegal actions of the staff of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Nalchik have provoked a mass hunger strike of inmates, which went unnoticed, relatives of inmates report. According to their stories, last night, about 30 inmates cut their wrist veins.

Today, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been introduced after the explosions within the territory of the Novoselitsky Municipal District of the Stavropol Territory. This was reported by the Russian FSB Department for the Stavropol Territory.

Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the building of the ROVD (District Interior Division) in the village of Novoselitskoe of the Stavropol Territory. In total, about five explosions occurred. This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies.

At night of April 10 and in the morning of the same day, the Azerbaijani armed forces 17 times shelled the Armenian positions in the north-east direction of the state border of Armenia. This was reported by the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has called on the authorities of Dagestan to prevent fabrication of a criminal case against Magomednabi Magomedov, Imam of the Khasavyurt "Eastern" mosque. According to the human rights defenders, the Imam publicly spoke out against violence and against departure of young Muslims to join militants.

About 3000 people took part in the "March of Silence" in memory of the soldiers and officers killed in Nagorno-Karabakh. The march started from the Shaumyan Avenue in Yerevan.

During the week of April 4-10, 2016, five persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, three persons were killed, and two others were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Policemen entered the mosque in a state of alcoholic intoxication and behaved inappropriately. This was reported by staff member of the mosque located in Hungarian Fighters Street in Makhachkala. The mosque administration intends to file a complaint about the behaviour of the policemen.

Today, under the mediation of the International Red Cross Committee and the OSCE, Armenia and Azerbaijan have exchanged bodies of dead soldiers and officers.

Residents of the North-Caucasian republics try to balance between the sharia law, the Russian laws and the adat law, and that leads to the vagueness of norms and rules of behaviour in society, and in turn, that results in violation of the rights of women. This opinion was voiced by participants of the roundtable on the topic "The role of the state, society and media to protect the rights of women in Northern Caucasus."

The Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Volgograd Region had information about the existence of a radical group in the Pallasovsky District; however, it failed to conduct explanatory work. This opinion was expressed by the "Union of Muslims of the Volgograd Region".

Russia supplies to Azerbaijan the weapons systems that Baku cannot purchase from other countries, and the delivered weapon will certainly be used against Armenia. This was stated by participants of the protest action held in Yerevan.

On April 9, the court pronounced the pre-trial restriction against Magomednabi Magomedov, Imam of the Khasavyurt "Eastern" mosque, in the form of detention in custody for two months.