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In Northern Caucasus, the earthquake was felt in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and North Ossetia. This was reported by the Departments for the KBR and North Ossetia of the Ministries for Emergencies (MfE).

The blame for the conflict in Syria is on the country's government; and the Syrian Free Army fights against both Bashar Assad's troops and radicals, while the population Kesab left their homes, fearing bombings of Syrian aviation. This was stated by the participants of the roundtable "Syria's Road Map in Transition Period" held on April 17 in Moscow.

Chupalav Omarov, a Deputy of the National Assembly of Dagestan and a member of the Committee on Industry, Transport and Communications, was lost in a road accident while driving a motorcycle.

On Monday, April 21, in Nalchik, the Kabardino-Balkaria State University (KBSU) hosted the Circassian Youth Forum, which was attended by about a hundred participants, 47 of them from foreign Diasporas – from Syria, Jordan, Israel, the USA, Turkey and the UAE.

On April 20, Mikhail Boyarischev, a resident of the Volgograd Region, the defendant in the case of arson of drilling rigs in the Novokhopyorsk District of the Voronezh Region, drove his car into the gate of the geologists' camp located in the Sorokin Field.

On Monday, a staff member of the Makhachkala police was wounded as a result of the attack committed by unidentified persons. His life is out of danger, and his state is estimated by doctors as of moderate severity. This was reported by an official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan.

During the week of April 14-20, 2014, at least 13 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 9 persons were killed, and 4 persons were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On April 20, Christians celebrated the major religious holiday Easter or Resurrection of the Lord. Easter services were held in the North-Caucasian republics.

Parents of the activists of the movement "Nida", accused of organizing riots, believe the young people are innocent and they are being prosecuted for political reasons. The defendants themselves continue their hunger strike in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 in the village of Kyurdakhany.

In Sochi, no construction works are conducted to install the monument to Afghan war veterans in the lawn of the Komsomolsky Park. This was reported by the city administration in response to the inquiry of Lyudmila Shestak, a deputy of the City Council.

On April 19, upon the arrival in Baku, Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov, who was expelled from Turkey, was imprisoned in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan. According to advocate Fuad Agaev, journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov is suspected of treason.

On April 19, the city of Krasnodar hosted a picket of defrauded investors of the construction company "Rodina" (Homeland), which was coordinated with the city authorities. The action was attended by over 100 people, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The Azeri journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov, deported from Turkey and placed to the flight Ankara-Baku, disappeared in the capital of Azerbaijan. Prior to leaving Ankara, Mirkadyrov managed to report that he was deported under the request of the authorities of Azerbaijan, and he could be arrested in Baku.

Zuleikhat Ozova, a resident of Nalchik, has appealed to the Investigating Committee of Russia, the Ombudsperson for the KBR, the Human Rights Centre of the KBR and the HRC "Memorial", saying that policemen beat up her husband Beslan Ozov and forced to self-incrimination.

The model that was used in Northern Ireland cannot be applied to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, state the experts who have presented in Stepanakert a magazine "Public Participatory and Multi-Channel Diplomacy Mechanisms in Peace Processes: Lessons of Northern Ireland".

As reported by the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), in Sochi activists prevented unloading of construction waste into a water course.

Today in Makhachkala, policemen did not allow holding the Extraordinary Congress of Nations of Dagestan, said Ruslan Rasulov, a public activist and a member of the organizing committee of the congress.

Nalchik residents with disabilities lack the barrier-free environment and space for full-fledged communion, state their relatives and social workers, who took part in the roundtable on situation with invalids in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

President of Georgia has signed a pardoning decree in the context of the Orthodox Easter. In total, Giorgi Margvelashvili pardoned 95 inmates. All the pardoned persons will be released today.

The participants of the interregional round table "Preventing Conflicts among Students of Dagestan and Stavropol Territory: New Approaches", held on April 16 in Pyatigorsk, discussed ways to prevent interethnic conflicts and issues of combating extremism among young people, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.