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Yaroslav Nikolskiy, an activist of the "Yabloko" Party, who was detained in Krasnodar in the course of his picket at the residence of the Governor of the Territory Alexander Tkachov, was sentenced to 15 days in jail.

Today, Pushkin Square in Moscow was the venue of a rally in support of the political hunger-strikers in Astrakhan. They were also supported by activists of the protest movement in Tula and St Petersburg.

The drivers who demanded from the city bosses to ensure their employment and leave their Gazel minivans in the urban transport network, have stopped their strike; they are preparing lawsuits to the Arbitration Court trying to challenge the actions of the Mayoralty, said Damir Bulatov, the vice-president of the Regional Association of Motorists (RAM).

In Sochi, the criminal case against suspects of murdering Antonina Maevskaya should be re-qualified, her relatives believe.

The action against doctor's errors, held today in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, has brought together more than 500 people: residents of the Slavyansk and Krasnoarmeisk Districts and the cities of Krasnodar, Gelendzhik, Anapa, Gyulkevichi and Krymsk.

In Azerbaijan, a serviceman of the National Army has wounded his comrade-in-arms from his service firearm by negligence.

Today, the Mayor of Astrakhan Mikhail Stolyarov has met the protesting fixed-route taxi drivers, who demand to preserve their Gazel mini-vans in the city transport network, and promised soon to solve the problem of their employment. The protesters were invited for a meeting in the building of the regional administration to address all the issues of their concern.

The large-scale clearing of the Chechen Republic of mines, shells and other explosive devices, initiated by military sappers, will take three years, according to the Republic's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

At today's session, the majority of State Duma MPs have refused to support the proposal of the parliamentarians from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (SR) (Fair Russia) Party to put the special report of the parliamentary group which visited the Astrakhan hunger-strikers in late March on the agenda of the plenary session.

The data about kidnapping of 88 persons in Ingushetia over the past two years and involvement of power agents in these crimes need to be checked, said today Rashid Nurgaliev, Russia's Interior Minister, in response to a request of a State Duma MP.

Moscow hosted a farewell to the public figure, a native of Azerbaijan Metin Mekhtiev, who was killed on April 10 in the centre of the Russian capital. The ceremony was attended by about two thousand people.

Today, a protest action of the youth movement will start in Astrakhan against the ex-candidate for the city Mayor Oleg Shein and his supporters. This was reported by Konstantin Goloskokov, Commissar of the movement "Nashi".

Merab Kolbaya and Gogita Arkaniya, convicted on charges of organizing terror acts in the territory of Georgia, have changed their initial evidences. As stated by their advocate Gela Nikolaishvili, Kolbaya and Arkaniya had earlier evidenced under pressure.

Mikhail Kalinin, a resident of the city of Cherepovets has applied to the Investigatory Division of Krasnodar, saying that his son Denis Kalinin was detained by policemen from the Krasnodar UVD (Interior Department), after which doctors diagnosed traumas in his son.

On April, 12, activists of Stavropol regional branch of LDPR party held an action under the slogan "Launch the Governor to space!". Concurrently the department of the party started collecting signatures under the demand of the Governor's resignation.

Over 50 route taxi drivers of Astrakhan discontented with the actions of municipal Administration suspended work, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Former soldier of statutory service Suren Kirakosyan in Armenia has been on a hunger strike in a correctional ward "Goris" since April, 5.

Two contract servicemen are suspected of regular beating up a soldier of statutory service in Ashuluk firing range, Astrakhan region, Natif Gadjimetov, official representative of Public prosecutor's office of Southern military region, reported.

A car with activists of the Russian Federation of Car Owners (RFCO), who were going to Astrakhan to support the local opposition and political activists, was detained by law enforcers.

The roundtable "Policy in Northern Caucasus. What Experts Suggest" was the last event of the Forum "Gaidar Readings" ongoing in Pyatigorsk. In the course of the discussion, experts invited state officials to actively cooperate with various religious groups and create agglomerations in the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).