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On April 11, Farman Sarvan oglu Guseinov, an 18-year-old soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, died after a fall from the third-floor of the hostel of a military unit, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

On April 12, Tbilisi opened the 15th International Tourism Fair housed in the exhibition centre "Expo Georgia", where tourism professionals from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates are showing their services and achievements.

An explosion happened tonight on the motorway near the school in Buinaksk. Local residents report that several persons have been killed.

The US government has published the so-called "Magnitsky List" – the people banned from entering the United States; and their accounts in American banks are frozen. The list includes the natives of Chechnya Lecha Bogatyryov and Kazbek Dukuzov.

Today, an opposition rally in support of the leader of the "Heritage" Party Raffi Ovannisyan was held in Yerevan. Addressing the rally, Mr Ovannisyan said that he would continue his struggle for power, but stressed that this should be done peacefully.

The active phase of the special operation in the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, is over; and law enforcers report about the killing of three members of the armed underground. Local residents confirm that no more shots are heard in the village.

Svetlana Budanova has stated at the trial that she saw in the place of the crime a light-coloured car with a young driver inside in a cap with a big peak.

Anatoly Salin, an employee of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of the Astrakhan Region, is in hospital after he was attacked by an unidentified person with a knife. A check is underway on the fact of the attack, said the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Astrakhan Region.

As reported by Irina Dubovitskaya, the head of the Krasnodar territorial public organization of graduates of Russian higher schools and a member of the Council under the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Mikhail Savva, the director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre" (SRRC), was detained today at 2:00 p.m. in Krasnodar and placed into the pre-trial facility of the FSB.

The Parliament of the Chechen Republic has passed – in the final reading – the law to ban energy drinks in the territory of the republic. It will come into force after signing by the head of Chechnya and publication in printed mass media.

In the evening on April 11, the members of the public organization named "Public Independent Inspection" marked the potholes on the roads near the Department of Urban Utilities of Volgograd.

During the special operation in Dolakovo, power agents mistakenly killed the locals Khavazh Ozdoev and Arthur Pliev and wounded and kidnapped Adam Ozdoev, said Ozdoev's sister Zareta and Pliev's brother Amir.

On April 11, two former employees of Jail No. 15 – Levan Lejava and Georgi Pardjanadze – were detained on charges of torture and inhuman treatment of prisoners. Two others – Dmitry Chkheidze and Shota Tolordava – have been put on the wanted list.

The defence of the convicts for torture – ex-employees of the Predgorny ROVD (District Interior Division) – asks to completely overturn the verdict of the first instance – the Predgorny District Court of Stavropol Territory – and to find them innocent, said Marina Dubrovina, the advocate of Vyacheslav Merekha.

Today, the Lenin Court of Vladikavkaz has made a decision to put Valentina Tedeeva, the head of the maternity ward of the Republic's Clinical Hospital (RCH), suspected of selling a newborn, into custody, said Eduard Gusov, Senior Assistant to the Head of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for North Ossetia.

Representatives of 58 non-profit organizations (NPOs) of Russia have sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin, asking him to publish a full list of organizations receiving funding from abroad.

The Company "IDS Borjomi", which produces and sells mineral water "Borjomi", was sent an official notification with a permit to import its products to the territory of Russia, the "Rospotrebnadzor" has reported.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has rejected an appeal lodged by the defence of the suspects in the murder case of former Colonel Yuri Budanov against the dismissal of the jury.

The exhibition named "Shades of Circassian" was opened in Moscow representing paintings, drawings, photographs and crafts of Circassian authors. The exhibition was organized to give the Moscow public an opportunity to see the Circassian contemporary arts, said the organizers.

Women and children are recommended to leave the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, as the village is under a special operation, say local residents.