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Musa Kadyrov, a football referee, who was suspended for lifetime from refereeing after his fight with a football player, was fined 500,000 roubles by the decision of the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU). For participating in the incident, Ilya Krichmar, a football player of the "Amkar" FC, was disqualified for four matches of youth championship and fined 15,000 roubles.

Staff members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) revealed the embezzlement of more than 31 million roubles allocated from the federal budget for the repair and maintenance of the highway M-6 "Kaspiy" Moscow-Astrakhan, the Russian MIA reports.

Today, the Prosecutor's Office asked the court to sentence Yusup Temerkhanov, a native of Chechnya, accused of the murder of ex-Colonel Yuri Budanov, to 16 years of imprisonment to be served in a penal colony of high security, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Relatives of Magomedkhabib Magomedaliev, who was killed during the special operation, held on March 20 in the village of Semender in Makhachkala outskirts, report that the body has not been given them out for burial.

The Moscow City Court sentenced Bekhkan Rizvanov accused of attempted murder during the fight at the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeysky" (European) in Moscow, to eight years of imprisonment in a penal colony of high security.

In Chechnya, investigation into the deaths of two soldiers of the Russian military unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence, who on April 28 blew up an unidentified explosive device in the south of the Republic. Both victims were contract soldiers who had come to serve in Chechnya from other regions of Russia, the Commandant's Office reports.

Today, the Disciplinary Commission of the Referees' Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU) decided to suspend for life Musa Kadyrov, a line referee from Chechnya who beat a football player.

Last night, a fire occurred in the of Porfiriev family's house in dispute located in Amurskaya Street in Astrakhan. According to the opinion of Regina Porfirieva, the wife of the family head, the fire was caused by arson. Investigators are working in place, and the version of arson is not excluded, in turn, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in the Astrakhan Region reports.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a suspected initiator of the terror act in Boston, came to the attention of Russian power agencies in early 2011 in connection with the detention in Dagestan of Canadian citizen William Plotnikov, and in 2012, when Tamerlan Tsarnaev was seen together with Makhmud Nidal, an alleged agent of the armed underground. This was stated by a source at the Dagestan's Centre for Combating Extremism.

Today, staff members of the newspaper "Azadlyg" and members of the Azerbaijani Press Council have sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) the appeal calling to investigate the incident which occurred with journalists of the opposition newspaper on April 27.

Today, the Krasnodar Regional Court has dismissed an appeal against the arrest of Mikhail Savva, Director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre (SRRC).

The examination of Akhmed Bilalov has revealed high content of arsenic and molybdenum in his body. This was reported by a representative of the Professor Wolfgang Kelling's Clinic.

Today, relatives of Yuri Budanov supported the position of prosecutors and asked the jury to find Yusup Temerkhanov guilty of killing the ex-Colonel.

Today, Rasim Ibadanov, a participant of the Kizlyar wedding party with Islamic flags, was delivered to the OVD (Interior Division) connection with his interview, a video record of which was earlier posted on the "YouTube". At least, one of the participants of the Kizlyar wedding party has been severely beaten and in need of medical care, a local resident reports.

A source from law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic said that they would not strengthen their checkpoint near the administrative border with Ingushetia and regard the actions of their Ingush counterparts who had announced construction of the block-post near the village of Arshty as provocative.

German doctors have found mercury in the blood of Akhmed Bilalov, the level of which is several times higher than normal. Akhmed Bilalov himself has confirmed the fact of his poisoning with mercury.

In Krasnodar, at a rally in support of Mikhail Savva, the director of grant programmes at the "Southern Regional Resource Centre", about a hundred signatures were collected to the petition demanding to stop prosecuting the arrested human rights activist, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Ten beaten participants of the wedding party have been brought to the OVD (Interior Division) of the city of Kizlyar, Magomed Kartashov, a member of the NGO "Union of the Just", among them, said an eyewitness of the incident. In its turn, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) states detention of the members of the extremist organization "Hizb-ut-Tahrir".

As reported by Eka Azarashvili, the press speaker of the Central Election Commission (CEC), during the election of an MP in the Bagdati Constituency violations were recorded; they were confirmed also by activists of the "United National Movement".

The Supreme Court (SC) of Adygea has withdrawn from consideration the complaint lodged by Mukharbi Tkharkakhov, a co-chair of the movement "For Future of Adygea", against the decision of the Maikop City Court, which failed to satisfy his complaint against the Territorial Election Commission (TEC) of Maikop, the Office of the SC reported on April 26.