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Protocols about violations at registration were drawn up in relation to the Association "Golos" (Vote) and its executive director Lilia Shibanova. According to the Russian Ministry of Justice, the association acts as a foreign agent, but not registered in the appropriate registry. The "Golos" denies receipt of any foreign funds.

Today, the Baku Appeal Court (BAC) has rejected a complaint lodged by Zaur Gurbanly, an activist of the civil movement "Nida", against his arrest for three months. His advocates find the court's decision unreasonable.

The wife and two children of a policeman from Buinaksk, in whose car an improvised explosive device (IED) was triggered, were discharged from hospital after receiving medical care. The policeman himself is in grave condition, said the Dagestani MIA.

Today, the Krymsk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory has held a preliminary hearing on the criminal case of the flood in Krymsk in July 2012. The court granted the prosecution's motion for disqualification of all the judges of this court composition. Now, the Territorial Court will make a decision to change the territorial jurisdiction of the case.

Today, Yerevan hosted – against the official inauguration of President Serzh Sargsyan – an oppositional rally named "Inauguration of New Armenia". In the course of the action, Raffi Ovannisyan, the runner-up in the presidential election, read out the "Oath to New Armenia"; then his supporters organized a spontaneous march.

Today, at the Moscow City Court, which is considering the murder case of former Colonel Yuri Budanov, the prosecutor questioned the eyewitness of a crime, which confirmed that the killer fled away from the scene in a Mitsubishi Lancer car.

Four general contractors have begun repair works of the highest building in the complex "Grozny City", burned out on April 3 in the centre of the capital of Chechnya. A source from the organization named "Genstroy" reported about the shortage of special technical means for working at height; such means have been ordered in Turkey.

On April 8, the Department of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) for the Krasnodar Territory questioned Elena Shablo, the director general of the non-profit public organization "Levados" Information Centre, said her mother Nina Shablo.

Valentina Tedeyeva, the detained head of the maternity ward of the Republic's Clinical Hospital of North Ossetia, is so far accused of only one episode of selling a baby, said Eduard Gusov, Senior Assistant Head of the Investigatory Department.

Today, the Judicial Panel for Criminal Cases of the Russia's Supreme Court has considered an appeal lodged by Dmitry Fedorushkin and Pavel Efremov, who had been convicted for an attempt to commit a terror act in Rostov-on-Don, and upheld the verdict.

Sergey Vorobyov, Deputy Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation has confirmed the indictment on the criminal case against 16 members of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, whose community was liquidated in Taganrog by the court "for extremism." The defence of the believers declares the inconsistency of the charges.

Today, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has appealed to the Zamoskvoretskiy District Court against the actions and decisions of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, which had conducted an unscheduled inspection at the office of the organization.

In the course of a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Ingush village of Dolakovo four militants were killed, namely: brothers Adam and Khalas Ozdoev, Ibragim Mestoev and Yakub Mankiev, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported. Djambulat Amirarslanov, the commander of a scout company of the Internal Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) was also killed.

Today, Ilgar Mamedov, the chairman of the public movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), was left in custody by today's ruling of the court, which refused to release him on bail, Fuad Agaev, Mamedov's advocate, has reported.

Two residents of Chechnya, who had placed on the Internet a video of the fire in a skyscraper in the complex "Grozny City", have been sent for repairs of the building for their comments on the accident.

The "Express" Bank from Makhachkala has been declared bankrupt by the decision of the Arbitration Court of Dagestan, said the lawyer Rafik Mamatov.

In the Komsomolsky Microdistrict of Krasnodar, Vadim Pashaev, 35, a local resident, was beaten. According to his story, he was beaten up by people in Cossack uniform, after he refused to produce his documents to them in the absence of a policeman.

In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from April 1 to April 7, 2013, at least 17 people suffered; of them four persons were killed and 13 more were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the village of Khaishi, Tetrittskaroy District of Georgia, locals broke into the farms, exploited by Iranian farmers. Georgian peasants believe that the authorities had secretly delivered to the tenants the land plots that they consider to be their own property.

Today, the Prikubansky Krasnodar District Court has to consider a lawsuit filed on behalf of the shareholders of the six-storey building at No. 9 Kadetskaya Street on suspension of the executive proceeding about demolition of the apartment building.