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On April 13, the court station No. 1 chaired by a magistrate of the Central District of the city of Voronezh held a court hearing on the complaint filed by Mass Media Defence Centre (MMDC).

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" intends to appeal against the refusal to initiate criminal proceedings against participants of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Dagestani settlement of Vremenny. After the CTO had been completed, local residents have claimed a large-scale destruction in their village.

On April 14, Bashir Suleimanly, a former political prisoner, the Executive Director of the Centre for Monitoring Elections and Democracy Training (CMEDT), was banned from leaving Azerbaijan. A day earlier, rights defender Elshan Gasanov was also banned from leaving the country.

Eight activists of the "Communists of Russia" Party have been detained today in Stavropol during an action in support of Mikhail Abramyan, said their advocate.

The verdict to the figurants in the case of the extremist community "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN) will be announced on April 21 – the corresponding decision was made by the Moscow Regional Court (MRC).

A criminal investigation has been launched in the Volgograd Region against a former operative agent of the Criminal Search Division, suspected of abuse of power with using violence.

Today, at the trial of Rasul Jafarov in Azerbaijan, his advocates announced their closing remarks: they urged the court to acquit the rights defender, stating that his guilt was not proved.

The defence of Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, who is accused of participating in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, has announced its intention to apply for a polygraph test of its client. Advocates of other defendants – Gubashev brothers and Khamzat Bakhaev – also do not exclude the possibility of applying the lie detector test to their clients.

Mortars and heavy machine guns are used by the Armenian party on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian armed forces, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan. According to its version, during the last 24 hours, the ceasefire was violated 39 times.

In the gardening comradeship "Domostroitel", located adjacent to Nalchik, which was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, a man, who rendered armed resistance to law enforcers, was shot dead.

Ruslan Geremeev, a former officer of the Chechen battalion "Sever" (North) and the key witness in Boris Nemtsov's murder case, has left Russia, the "Rosbalt" reports citing a law enforcement source. Geremeev could go to Dubai, the RBC writes with reference to Ilya Yashin, a member of the "Solidarity" Movement.

The forest fire in the vicinity of the villages of Balakhani and Tsatanikh of the Untsukul District of Dagestan, where a large counterterrorist operation (CTO) was conducted, is completely eliminated.

Zaur Dadaev, accused of killing Boris Nemtsov, has expressed his intention to undergo a lie detector (polygraph) test in order to prove his innocence, the "Kommersant" has reported today.

The Adler District Court of Sochi has refused to explain the Saveliev family its decision, under which the family was obliged to dismantle other people's building.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the refusal of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to check the legality of the statements of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov about demolition of houses owned by militants' relatives and eviction of them out of the republic.

Power agents conducted another inspection of documents in young men wearing beards, Grozny residents report.

Today, the legal counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime that was in force in the Untsukul, Gergebil and Buynaksk District of Dagestan has been cancelled.

The lawyers of the public organization "Committee against Torture" (CaT) have submitted a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the interests of Suleiman Edigov, a native of Chechnya, sentenced to 14.5 years in prison, despite the information that he was tortured.

22 children affected by the hostilities in the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DNR and LNR, respectively) are delivered to Chechnya. The children are hospitalized to clinics of Grozny, where they are to undergo courses of free medical treatment and rehabilitation.

One of the examinations appointed as a part of the investigation into the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder is to answer the question about the possible involvement of five defendants in drug trafficking and their possible drug addiction, the "Kommersant" reports today.