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The increasing number of positive reviews on the activities of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and the growth of public confidence in him are the result of the TV propaganda and strengthening of anti-Western sentiments in Russia against the background of the situation in Ukraine. This was stated by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, a regime of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) has been cancelled in the village of Stary Cherek, four hours after its introduction. A house with a yard has been blocked as a part of the special operation. This was reported by a source in the law enforcement bodies.

Journalist Vyacheslav Starodubets beaten in Derbent has been hospitalized with multiple bruises and hematomas. He associates the attack on him with his professional activities.

In Tbilisi, the "Caucasian House", World Vision, the HALO Trust and other NPOs have presented their project of peacekeeping activities in Southern Caucasus. Until April 16, the British Embassies in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan accept applications from NPOs for funding of new projects in the regions of Southern Caucasus.

Five persons involved in the attack on activists of the "Founding Parliament" in Gyumri have been brought to administrative responsibility.

Locals report that today power agents conduct house-by-house checks in the villages of Maidanskoe, Balakhani and Zirani of the Untsukul District of Dagestan.

In the evening on April 3, in the village of Untsukul, the armoured car of Gasan Gasanov, a member of the Dagestani Parliament, was shelled; the MP was not hurt.

The Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia has reported that they received the results of the forensic examinations related to the massacre of the Avetisyan family in the city of Gyumri.

The defender of Abdullah Getagazov, a native of Ingushetia, states that his client is illegally kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of detention facility No. 12 of the city of Zelenograd. The SIZO bosses refute the statement.

The woman was detained on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm to her three-month daughter. According to investigators, at night on April 2, 2015, the 25-year-old resident of Astrakhan, while in the state of alcoholic intoxication, inflicted "a lot of punches to the head and torso of her three-month daughter."

Asrudi Musaev, a resident of Chechnya, has been sentenced for aiding and abetting fraud with maternity capital, despite the numerous contradictions in the testimonies of witnesses and suspicious coincidences in the interrogation protocols. This has been stated by his defence in the complaint filed to the Prosecutor's Office.

The court has sentenced Arthur Mirzoyan, a native of Armenia, to two years in a colony-settlement for shelling the building of the Turkish Embassy in Moscow. The defence has disagreed with the verdict and insists that Mirzoyan has shelled the embassy in order to draw attention to the problem of recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

According to experts, the treaty on alliance and integration between the Russian Federation and South Ossetia will lead to improved living standards in the republic. Meanwhile, the experts emphasize that the treaty does not stipulate the merger of South Ossetia and Russia.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has included the Rostov city public organization "Eco-Logic" into the register of NGOs acting as foreign agents.

The Yerevan Mayoralty has refuses to sanction the rally of the opposition movement scheduled for April 26. Members of the "Founding Parliament" treat the decision as unlawful.

On March 30, the Ukrainian media posted the first reports on unmarked graves in Rostov-on-Don. According to the "New Region", bodies of Russian militiamen killed in Donbas are massively buried in Rostov-on-Don.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported on an attempt of sabotage undertaken by the Azerbaijani armed forces at the contact line.

The advocate Yalcin Imanov has failed to visit in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who is under arrest starting from December 5, 2014.

In the course of the meeting initiated by the Gyumri Journalists' Club "Asparez" and the media centre founded by the NGOs' project "Social Club of Journalists", Armenian lawyers and rights defenders have discussed the progress of the investigation into the murder committed in Gyumri, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Law enforcers have reported on the involvement of Vadim Shogenov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, killed during a special operation conducted in March 2014, in the creation of a criminal armed grouping. A criminal case has been instituted on the above fact.