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Akhmed-Bashir Aushev, a co-chairman of the Supreme Board of the Ingush public movement "Mekhk-Khel", has reported detention of his son. According to his version, the young man was beaten up.

Today, the Staropromyslovskiy District Court of Grozny has passed its verdict in the case of Sultan Daurbekov, accused of killing his daughter. Daurbekov was sentenced to 7 years in a high security colony.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has left the complaint lodged by Rasul Jafarov, a rights defender, convicted in Azerbaijan, against the rejection of his civil lawsuit against the Bank Respublika, without satisfaction.

During the week of April 20-26, 2015, at least 3 persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. 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 Krasnodar Territory, a group of residents has started collecting signatures under the online petition to commute the sentence for three young women, who danced near the WWII memorial museum "Malaya Zemlya" (Small Land) in Novorossiysk.

Today, Khasmagomed Charinov (according to other sources, Charanov), who, according to power agents, was the leader of the Khasavyurt sector of militants, has been killed in Dagestan. According to a source from the law enforcement bodies, Khasmagomed Charinov had recently swore allegiance to the "Islamic State" (IS).

On April 25, on the Day of the Circassian flag, the Tbilisi State University opened an exhibition of masterpieces created by Circassian artists. Besides, Tbilisi hosted a presentation of the book "Cherkessia My Pain". The events were organized by the "Circassian Cultural Centre".

Arslan Khairullin, a resident of Dagestan, has filed a complaint about inaction of investigators. He complains to the Prosecutor's Office about being beating by policemen and unlawful prosecution.

The interrogation of Vladimir Kimaev, which was held on April 24, lasted about two hours. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Alexander Popkov, an advocate of the activist. The activist is suspected of inciting hatred against the police in his articles published in 2013.

The Chechen law enforcement bodies managed to identify seven more residents of Chechnya involved in the combat actions in Syria. According to the law enforcers, they have also identified a native of the Vedeno District killed in Syria.

The decision on the extension of the arrest of Tamerlan Eskerkhanov will be challenged. This was announced by advocate Roza Magomedova.

In Yerevan, about 50 members of the opposition movement took part in the action demanding to release the arrested members of the "Founding Parliament", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The fire brigade of Sochi believes the burned house in Vinogradnaya Street in Sochi was deliberately set on fire. According to local residents, it is not the first time in Sochi, when fires start in the houses that are subjected to demolition.

The "REN TV" TV Channel has made public a video record of the attack on Dagestani businessman Magomed Tazirov in Stavropol. After that incident, Djambulat Dadaev was put on the wanted list, and later, he was killed by the Stavropol police in Grozny.

Khachik Avetisyan, a Karabakh War veteran, has resumed his hunger strike at the office of the Armenian Ombudsman.

The advocates of Zaur Dadaev have appealed against the court ruling to extend his custody until August 28.

For the second day, residents and guests of Armenia continue to lay flowers at the "Tsitsernakaberd" memorial in Yerevan and pay tribute to the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Builder Mardiros Demerchyan is accused of stealing a cable from the Olympic construction site in Sochi. The accused man signed a recognizance not to leave.

The growth of the number of victims of terrorism and counterterrorist operations (CTOs) in Chechnya in 2014 as compared with 2013; the special operation carried out by power agents from the Stavropol Territory in the territory of Chechnya, which provoked an exasperated statement of Ramzan Kadyrov about the possibility of opening fire on law enforcers from other regions; the problems associated with attempts detain and question the suspects in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's case – all these events are destroying the existing myth of Ramzan Kadyrov's total control over the Chechen Republic.

The court has summoned the investigator and the chief of the Budennovsk Criminal Investigation Department for questioning in the case against Lyudmila Bogatenkova, the head of the Stavropol Committee of Soldiers' Mothers "Mothers from Kuma River Area".