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Today, the township of Lazarevskoye in Sochi hosted the seventh congress of the public organization "Adyge-Khasse" of the Black Sea Adygs-Shapsugs. More than 180 delegates listened to the report of the chairman of the Organization Madzhid Chachukh.

The journalist's defence stated violations in the course of his trial, which resulted in a sentence to 180 hours of corrective work under the charge of beating the local Deputy Rifkat Shabanov; therefore, hi advocates intend to appeal against the verdict.

As reported by the local MIA, in the village of Costa-Khetagurov, Karachay-Cherkessia, unidentified persons set fire to the church and destroyed the stela of St George Victorious.

On April 29, the Georgian journalist Levan Gudadze, who had first fled to South Ossetia and then to Russia, went on hunger strike at the Swiss Embassy in Moscow with a demand to send him back to Georgia. He explains his action by absence of safety guarantees for him and his family.

In the house of Gyulnaz Nasirova, a resident of Lyankaran, 19 books of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses were found and confiscated.

The Tbilisi City Council has decided to allocate special parking places for drivers with disabilities. The places will be used only by them.

Wolves are attacking people in rural areas. Such reports come from different parts of the country.

The third round of talks between the delegations of Georgia and Russia on Russian Federation's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is scheduled on late May. The agreement was reached after the second round of talks held on April 28-29 in Geneva.

The Islamic scholar Kurman Ismajlov, in whose power agents had earlier found an object looking like a piece of explosive, had earlier been abducted; kidnappers took him to the forest and demanded by threats that he left the region named Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody (KMV - Caucasian Mineral Waters). This was reported by human rights activist Rikhard Panteleichuk.

In Azerbaijan on April 28, at its next session, the Nizami District Court of the city of Gandzha, which is considering the case of the young activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, accused of evasion from military service, listened to witnesses' evidences. However, at the beginning it was announced that the defence's challenge of the composition of the court chaired by Akhundov was rejected. The next court session was scheduled on May 5.

In the Stavropol Region, Sheikh Kurman Ismajlov was not detained and nor abducted; he was at the local Prosecutor's Office - writing a complaint against actions of power agents. This was announced by his advocate Rasul Kubanov.

Today, the Shamil District Court held the first session on the case of beating by militiamen in July 2010 of a 14-year-old boy in the premises of the Shamil ROVD (District Interior Division). The employees of the MIA Magomed Magomedov, Gamzat Nurudinov and Shamil Magomedov are facing the trial. The litigation will continue on May 3.

The party of the defendants - Nikita Tikhonov and Eugenia Khasis - believes that the guilty verdict passed by the jury is illegal because of the violations admitted in the course of the trial on the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation has sent a protest to Georgia - through mediation of Swiss diplomats - against searches at the airport of Tbilisi of a woman-citizen of Russia, a close relative of Nino Burdjanadze, ex-speaker of the Georgian parliament.

The Prosecutor's Office of Rostov-on-Don has started an investigation following a demand of Victor Deryabkin, Chairman of the Regional Legislative Assembly to prosecute the regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party "for inciting social hatred against members of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party.

As reported by a source from law enforcement bodies, on April 28 unidentified persons blew up the car of the Chairman of the Accounting and Auditing Commission of Karabudakhkent in Dagestan; fortunately, nobody was hurt.

Power agents of the Chechen Republic are carrying out large-scale actions against drivers illegally using special signals. Local drivers believe that, as before, the campaign will bring little fruit.

In the course of the week from April 18 to April 24 at least 19 persons were killed and at least 7 more wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" on the basis of its own materials and information from other open sources.

As reported by the press service of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), yesterday, on April 28, as a result of the fire opened from the Azerbaijani side, Vazgen Bakhshyan, a conscript of the Defence Army, was shot dead.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Kharun Yunusov, accused of kidnappings for ransom, to 15 years in a high security colony; however, given the fact that under the 2004 verdict of the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic he had served 6 years in prison, his remaining term is 9 years.