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For three months of this year, the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic revealed - in the course of checks for compliance with the labour legislation of municipal utilities, and entities of construction, educational and medical sphere - about five thousand violations. 32 officials were brought to administrative responsibility. However, at some enterprises of the republic salary debts range from several months to several years.

In the city of Nizhnevartovsk, natives of Chechnya claim that last September they were beaten by local OMON (riot police) agents. Six weeks after the incident, a criminal case was initiated on this fact, which is still under investigation. According to the victims, their attempt to achieve identification of the attackers turned into mockery on them; and their advocate was repeatedly threatened.

The fact of detention in the village of Tsatanikh, Untsukul District of Dagestan, of Ibragim Saipulaev and his direction to psychiatric examination was reported by his brother Shamil Saipulaev, who turned to human rights activists with a request to restore his brother's violated rights. The detainee's advocate finds the appointment of examination ungrounded.

Roman Gubarev, accused of murdering eight people, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Gubarev refused to plead guilty.

Today, the Kirov Court of Makhachkala has found Milrad Fatulaev, editor-in-chief of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) weekly guilty of non-taking measures to prevent defamation of the President of Dagestan and fined him by 10,000 roubles.

Azerbaijani law enforcers are preventing the lawyer Elchin Sadygov from meeting his clients - Vugar Gonagov and Zaur Guliev, the executive director and editor-in-chief of the regional TV Channel "Khayal", respectively, accused of events in the city of Guba. This was reported by the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS). The penitentiary service denies this information.

A criminal case has been opened in Volgograd against a company commander of the patrol and post service of the UVD (Department of Interior), who is suspected of abusing a detainee.

President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili signed a law of amendments to the Criminal Code of the country toughening punishment for crimes committed on the grounds of intolerance towards different social groups.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Islam Khashagulgov, accused of committing the terror act in the marketplace of Vladikavkaz on September 9, 2010, to 24 years of imprisonment.

Observer from the Council of Europe Christopher Shtresser declared that he would no longer try to get Azerbaijani visa after he was refused its issue in Baku once again.

The investigation in Stavropol region brought a charge against four ex-district militia officers of the Department of Interior Affairs in Predgorny district of Stavropol region. They are suspected of using violence against a forty-four-years-old local resident Viacheslav Merekha. The case caused a wide public response.

During the first hearing on the lawsuit of the action for invalidation of the results of election of Mayor of Astrakhan the court dismissed Oleg Shein's motion to recuse the judge.

Yesterday, on April 24, on Day of victims of Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire of 1915-1922, all towns of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh and of foreign countries, where the Armenian Diaspora resides, held mourning ceremonies.

Suren Gazaryan, the activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", accused of damaging the fence near the object, which ecologists consider to be the summer cottage belonging to Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, face one more criminal case instituted against him. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Suren Gazaryan himself.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, upcoming events on Circassian Flag Day were stopped by the police. This was reported from place by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The 16-year-old Imadibir Makhiev, a resident of the village of Karata, Akhvakh District of Dagestan, who was shot in his head on April 16 by a policeman of the local OVD, has died tonight in the intensive care unit of the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Makhachkala, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

After drawing up protocols on administrative offences, the police have released the four persons detained at the storming of the Mayoralty of Elista. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Elvira Namrueva, the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kalmykia.

The Azerbaijani Supreme Court (SC) has rejected the complaints and upheld the guilty verdicts to oppositionists Shakhin Gasanli, Arif Gadjily and Fuad Gakhramanly, convicted in connection with the rally on April 2, 2011, in Baku.

On April 24, the socio-political situation in Azerbaijan was subject of discussion at the meeting in Baku of the diplomatic corps with the leaders of the oppositional Civil Movement for Democracy" Public Chamber" (CMDPC). The participants of the meeting refer to its confidential character and refuse to comment on diplomats' statements, but note that such contacts are always useful.

According to the investigation, the head of one of the departments of the Volgograd City Mayoralty has embezzled 750,000 roubles through fraudulent actions. The bureaucrat himself denies his guilt.