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Employees of the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia are inspecting the MIA of Dagestan in the context of the criminal case opened against high-ranking law enforcement officials, said a source from the local MIA.

Today, the defendants Arman Bagdasaryan and Norair Airapetyan, accused of beating military doctors in the parking lot of the Yerevan "Harsnaqar" Restaurant, presented their evidence to the court; therefore, the interrogation of the defendants was over.

A series of pickets in support of the oppositional leader Alexei Navalny, who is accused of a large-scale embezzlement, was held today in Astrakhan.

Djanetta Selivanova, who was detained during searches in the Dagestani village of Shamilkala, was today sentenced to ten days of administrative arrest, said a villager Raisa Ismailova.

Natives of the village of Shyky, Cherek District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have decided to restore their village. At a meeting on April 14 in Nalchik they elected the organizing committee of five members, and instructed them to draft the charter of the future village Shyky.

The Armenian armed forces have broken the ceasefire in the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan. According to the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh, on April 7-13, they registered 250 cases of ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan at the contact line of the troops.

Yesterday, on April 14, in the park opposite the marine station in Sochi, about 50 local residents held a rally against the build-up by traders of the resort land occupied by parks, mini-parks and green areas for general use.

Builders are completing the cleaning of the facade of the high-rise building in the complex "Grozny-City" damaged by fire on April 3. The works were carried out with the help of the technical means brought from Turkey.

During the week of April 8-14, 2013, at least 20 people suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including 11 casualties and nine wounded persons. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On April 14, Nalchik hosted a charity exhibition-sale, where 40 drawings of children of Syrian immigrants living in the republic were presented.

The village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, has been invaded by plenty of law enforcers and soldiers; tanks are deployed in the vicinity; and shooting is heard, one of the locals told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In Sochi, animal lovers, ecologists and members of the public charitable organization "Dobromir" held a rally in support of homeless animals. The action brought together about 50 people.

On April 13, an attempt to hold the "Day of Russian Wrath" in Rostov-on-Don resulted in detention of about 10 people. All of them were released from the police after check of documents, said a source from the OVD (Interior Division).

The village of Bereslavka, Kalachov District of Volgograd Region, hosted a rally against the closure of the inpatient ward of the district hospital and reduction of day-and-night and day beds.

A rally was held in Volgograd against extraction of nickel in the Novokhopyorsk District of the Voronezh Region, bordering on the Volgograd Region. The organizers of the action collected signatures to an open letter addressed to the UN against the destruction of the basin of the Khopyor River.

Today, Volgograd hosted an action "Day of Russian Wrath", which was attended by about 50 people, 30 of them are members of nationalist organizations.

Today, the Oktiabrskiy District Court of Krasnodar has considered the issue of freedom restriction in relation to Mikhail Savva, the director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre (SRRC) and ruled to arrest him for two months.

April 16 is the scheduled date to resume flights between Armenia and Syria, said Svetlana Ovannisyan, the spokesperson for the Yerevan office of the "Syrian Airlines".

On April 12, members of the regional branch of the "Volya" (Will) Party held a rally in Volgograd, where they stated a poor development rate of the country's aviation industry, and criticized the actions of the authorities and the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party.

As stated David Kervalidze, the Minister of Agriculture of Georgia, the peasants who suffered from hail on April 10 will receive – as the first-order help – vouchers for pesticides. Within a week, it is planned to define the extent of damage.