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On April 1, in Yerevan, Misak Arakelyan, who was arrested after the protest action "Million Mask March" was released from the penitentiary institution "Nubarashen" on recognizance not to leave. This was told to journalists by his advocate Ovanes Kocharyan.

The movie "Noah", which was condemned and boycotted by the Imam of the Central Mosque in Makhachkala, is freely screened in city cinemas; however, in some of them, there is a warning near the cashiers that the movie is not recommended for watching, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

On March 31, the Tskhinvali City Court satisfied the lawsuit of the Mayoralty and found the residence of the Djioev family in an apartment of the house in Pushkin Street illegal.

The health condition of the hunger-striker Suleiman Edigov, a Chechen resident, accused of an attempt on the life of a law enforcer and arms trafficking, does not allow him to participate in court sessions, the prosecution asserts. The court has decided to hold a full medical examination of Edigov and present the results by April 7.

Anatoly Kolkhidov, a public and political figure and an activist of the initiative "Stop Electrozink!", detained on suspicion of robbery, has been released under recognizance not to leave. This was ruled on March 31 by the Investigating Department of Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Vladikavkaz.

Gasan Guseinli is the head of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) named "Educative Centre 'Intellectual Citizen'", located in the city of Ganja (Gandzha). He is charged with hooliganism committed with weapons or objects used as weapons, which threatens him with up to seven years in prison. Before his detention, he managed to announce that it was a provocation.

The participants of the action "Strategy-31", which was sanctioned by the authorities and held on March 31 in Rostov-on-Don, called on the authorities and law enforcement bodies to release political prisoners and ensure the freedom of assembly.

In Tbilisi, starting March 25, the amnestied political prisoners are holding daily protests demanding rehabilitation. Former political prisoners promise to stop the protest if their demands are met, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

As reported by the press service of the Chief Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), investigators found a package with an explosive device at the place of the attack on policemen in Nalchik.

In South Ossetia, the new wording of the law "On non-governmental organizations (NGOs)", approved on March 31 by the Government of the Republic, introduces the notion of "an NGO, which functions as a foreign agent" in relation to the organizations, which receive funding from abroad.

As reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", on March 27, Khasan Edilkhanov, a native of Chechnya, who arrived from Thailand, was detained by law enforcers in the arrival area of the Sheremetievo Airport on suspicion of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs).

Ara Zakaryan, the defender of Tigran Petrosyan, has stated that the actions of his client who was detained during the action on November 5, 2013, in Yerevan, constituted no crime elements under the article of "Hooliganism".

Mukhammadrasul-Hadji Saaduev, the Imam of the Central Juma-Mosque of Makhachkala, called, in his Fridays' prayer on March 28, on his parishioners to boycott the movie "Noah" that was recently released into the global circulation.

Four Georgian sailors who stay onboard a ship in the Turkish port of Iskenderun have addressed for help to Georgian authorities. According to their version, the owner of the ship fails to pay their salaries; and they have problems with foodstuffs.

The Magas District Court of Ingushetia has sentenced Aslan Dobriev, the former head of the Nazran District, to four years in prison on charges of a fraud with payments to Chernobyl accident liquidators, the spokesman of the FSB Department for Ingushetia said today.

According to Inessa Petrosyan, an advocate of Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, her client and 13 other participants of the "Million Mask March", detained on November 5, 2013, saw a change of the charge – from rendering resistance to authorities into hooliganism.

The press service of the administration of the city of Anapa reports that as a result of illegal construction of a cafe on the beach area of the Utrish Reserve dozens of relict trees listed in the Red Book were damaged. The Prosecutor's Office has begun searching for the customer.

As reported by activists from the courtroom, on April 2, the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar plans to announce the verdict to Professor Mikhail Savva, the Director of Grant Programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre.

In Chechnya, relatives of Alvi Abdurakhmanov report his disappearance after detention by law enforcers. Earlier the jury acquitted him on charges of robbery and attack on power officials. However, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov stated the illegality of the acquittal.

In Georgia, politicians, including the oppositionists, declare their readiness to support the proposal announced by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili to constitutionally secure the definition of a family as a union of a man and a woman. Members of the State Commission of Georgia have already prepared an appropriate statement to change the Constitution Article on equality of spouses in marriage.