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The list of voters of Armenia contained the name of the late President of the National Academy of Sciences Fadey Sargsyan. The mistake was corrected after noticed by the opposition newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time).

Residents of the city of Mikhailovka, Volgograd Region, have protested against the state of urban roads by means of a flash mob. Motorists were indignant with the way the road service workers repair the carriageway – they jut fill the pits and holes with old bricks.

This May, the Swiss party will choose a company, which will monitor cargo traffic in the checkpoints on the Psou River (the Abkhazian section of the border), Roki (the South-Ossetian section of the border) and in Lars.

In Moscow, Tamara Novikova, the mother and defender of Judge Dmitry Novikov, has suspended her solo pickets until Monday, April 2, hoping to have her problem solved by the Ministry of Justice.

The airports of the Krasnodar Territory will participate in the international "Earth Hour" initiated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and will today turn off the illumination for one hour.

In Dagestan, relatives of 31-year old Magomed Murtuzaliev and 30-year-old Abdula Murtuzaliev cannot establish their whereabouts and fear that they might be kidnapped and that their lives and health are at risk. Their mother Zoya Abdulaeva, a resident of Makhachkala, appealed to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" asking to help find her disappeared sons.

The Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Krasnoyarsk Territory conducts investigation into the fact of beating in the Krasnoyarsk SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) of Aslan Cherkesov, a native of the city of Nalchik, who was convicted for the murder of the football fan Yegor Sviridov committed in Moscow, and who serves his sentence in the region. This was reported by Olga Volobueva, Senior Assistant of the Prosecutor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

In Sochi, several local residents suffered during the picket against cutting down trees in the territory of the children's centre in Konstitutsii Street. A woman-protestor was delivered to hospital.

In Astrakhan, participants of the political hunger strike did not receive from the Central Election Commission (CEC) videos from the webcams, which were operating at city electoral precincts on March 4, and began to publish their available videos on the Internet, since they fear that the records may disappear from the resource of the Ministry of Communications and the "Rostelecom".

Rosa Aishaeva, a resident of the town of Tyrnyauz, and Larisa Nagoeva, a resident of the city of Nalchik, appeal to human rights activists to help in defending the rights of their sons, Murat Aishaev and Murat Nagoev, who, according to the women, had been kidnapped by power agents. According to the women, the young people were tortured to confess to belonging to militant groupings.

In Armenia, for the first time, a blogger intends to participate in the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 6. Izabella Abgaryan, who writes under the nickname of iza1976, is being nominated by proportional system from the "Heritage" Party.

The Labour party of Georgia held an action of protest against falsification of the parliamentary election in October, 2012, under the slogan “Red light to Saakashvili”.

Public prosecutor’s office of Krasnodar region acknowledged destruction of state natural reserve of regional value “Bolshoy Utrish” unlawful.

Local policemen in Khasavyurt are bringing pressure on the Musalimovs because of the twenty-seven-years-old Salim Musalimov who has a federal wanted notice for suspicion of infringement on the life of an officer of law enforcement bodies in 2011, his mother Dagmara states. The family appealed to “Memorial” Human Rights Center and reports that Salim Musalimov has been staying in France since 2010 and could not therefore have committed the crime incriminated to him.

Two more victims of the explosion in the Volgograd cafe "Bellagio" were discharged from Moscow hospitals. Artyom Sotnikov, a resident of Volgograd, and Yulia Podgornaya, a resident of Moscow, will continue to receive medical treatment at home. Thus, 10 persons still remain at the hospitals of Moscow and German Cologne.

Four residents of the farm yard of Turoverov-Glubokinsky of the Millerovo District of the Rostov Region need new housing after the flooding of their houses.

Today, the Garadag District Court of Baku again rejected the activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev of conventional early relief (CER) in connection with serving of half of his imprisonment sentence.

Judicial board of the Moscow City Court has mitigated the sentence for several defendants in the case of organizing mass riots in Manege Square in Moscow in December 2010 and reduced their terms of imprisonment by two and three months.

Today, starting from 1:00 p.m., Tamara Novikova, the mother of Dmitry Novikov, Sochi Judge, holds a single picket in front of the Russian Government in Moscow.

Today, the regular plenary session of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh determined the date of the next presidential election.