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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).

Today, Milrad Fatulaev, the editor-in-chief of the Dagestani weekly "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time), has received a statement of the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Makhachkala about initiation of an administrative case against him under the article of slander after publication of an article about introduction of the CTO (counterterrorist operation) regime in the village of Gimry, Untsukul District. The weekly's staff views it as pressure on the edition by national authorities.

As stated by Eldar Orudjev, the head of the legal department of the Azerbaijani state-owned oil company SOCAR, residents of the dwelling area Sulu-Tepe of the township Khodjasan, Binagadi District of Baku, whose house are demolishing by the company, should go to court and seek compensations for their housing from local authorities and municipalities, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

A criminal case was initiated by republican Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR) in KBR on the fact of beating up resident of Nalchik Inal Berov by the personnel of the Ministry of Interior Affairs. Inal Berov was officially acknowledged sufferer.

Local residents of Beslan, North Ossetia, held an action of protest neat the dump where garbage of several years' standing was burning. They demand to move the dump farther away from the residential area of the town.

On April, 11, an action of protest was held in Vardanants square of the town of Giumri, Armenia. Its participants came out in opposition against the festival of Azerbaijani films "STOP" planned on April, 12.

Today, in Sochi, the action to protest against tree felling and construction of multi-storey parking facilities near the children's centre in Constitution Street was resumed. The place of the protest action was visited by Oleg Sheveiko, City Chief Architect, who ordered to stop felling of 50-year-old plane trees and thus supported the demands of the public activists.

Relatives of Murat Tekuzhev, the 34-year-old resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was killed on March 30 during a special operation in Nalchik, claim that he had not been involved into illegal armed formations (IAFs).

Investigators instituted a criminal case on the fact of kidnapping of Ruslan Aushev, a resident of Ingushetia, in the city of Mineralnye Vody of the Stavropol Territory.

Sergey Udaltsov, the coordinator of the "Left-Wing Front", who went on a hunger strike in solidarity with the Astrakhan opposition activists, who do not recognize the results of the mayoral elections, was detained by police near the building of the State Duma in Moscow. Later, the Magistrate Court fined Sergey Udaltsov by 2000 roubles for attempting to hold an unsanctioned rally near the State Duma.

In the Stavropol Territory, Evgeny Pechorin, the ex-head of the Lermontov city administration, is suspected of incurring a loss to the local self-administration in the amount of 2,000,000 roubles. This was reported today at the press conference by Yury Turygin, Prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory.

Wife of Omar Omarov, Chairman of the Khasavyurt City Court, who was injured in the explosion, which occurred this morning near the house of the judge, is in serious condition. This was reported by a staff member of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Dagestan.