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As reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia, six Georgian citizens detained at the administrative border with South Ossetia have been released.

Activists of the opposition and the country's democratic public of the country have decided to campaign in defence of the rights of the arrested activists of the "Nida". They arrests were also condemned by the Human Rights Watch.

In the region of Kakheti (Eastern Georgia), the international centre for cultural, humanitarian and economic Georgian-Russian cooperation named "GROSS" has opened free courses for studying the Russian language. First groups have already been formed. The centre plans to open similar courses throughout the country.

On April 3, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh hosted a presentation of the third issue of the literary and journalistic almanac, which includes the works of writers and poets from Georgia, Azerbaijan, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

According to the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia, the website "Ingushetiyaru.org", owned by the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, was recognized as extremist by the court.

Today, the Georgian MPs have approved by a majority vote in the third reading the amendments to the Law "On General Courts".

In the Rostov Region, Alexander Tolmachov, a journalist, editor and publisher, accused of extortion, has signed documents about the of his familiarization with the materials of the criminal case against him. The case should arrive in the court within a month, said Sergey Karpov, Tolmachov's advocate.

Local residents gathered in the village of Belaya Rechka in Kabardino-Balkaria and stated that the authorities Nalchik fail to address their problems.

Today, the Deputy Public Prosecutor of Karachay-Cherkessia has approved an indictment against Ravil Chekunov on the case of organizing in Dombai the entertainment named "zorb", where a tourist perished.

Brothers Artak and Araik Petrosyan are suspects in the murder case of Grach Muradyan, the head of the administration of the village of Proshyan, Kotayk Region of Armenia. They were arrested.

About 50 people, who had bought flats in the newly-built house in Kadetskaya Street in Krasnodar, blocked the work of the court marshals, who are trying to fulfil the court's ruling to demolish the building, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

At the Moscow City Court (MCC), the witness Anatoly Zatsarenko has identified the defendant in Yuri Budanov's murder case as "the man running away from the scene of the crime."

In the capital of Georgia, three persons were detained on the fact of trading the highly radioactive material 241-Am (isotope of americium).

The detainee Timur Toldiev has died at the Malgobek ROVD (District Interior Division) of Ingushetia from torture, said his brother Alikhan Toldiev, a resident of the village of Ekazhevo. He has addressed his application on this occasion to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Today, the judicial board on criminal cases of the appeal instance of the Moscow City Court (MCC) has left Rustam Makhmudov, a native of Chechnya, accused of murdering the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, in custody.

From the morning on April 4, the work to clear the area around the complex "Grozny City", where in the evening on April 3 the tower named "Olymp" was on fire. The building was not inhabited; and there were no victims.

According to believers, in January-March 2013, Russian Jehovah's Witnesses faced at least 49 cases of violations of their rights; four of these cases occurred in Southern Russia.

Two battalions of Armed Forces of Georgia – Nos. 33 and 42 – have left for Afghanistan to take part in the mission of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said the press service of the Georgian Ministry of Defence (MoD) on April 3.

Because of the combustible part of insulation, the fire has spread across all the levels of the 40-storey building of the complex "Grozny City". The building will be restored, said the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

Parents of the three students from Ingushetia, who suffered in a mass brawl with shooting in Stavropol, will challenge the exclusion order of the North-Caucasian Federal University (NCFU), the rector Alina Levitskaya said today.