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On April 11, the severely beaten Dagestan lawyer Sergey Kvasov was transferred from resuscitation to ordinary ward. Now, his condition remains stably grave. His colleagues come to act as blood donors for Sergey.

Today in Baku, the police have prevented a picket of activists of the "Musavat" opposition party in front of the building of the Baku Mayoralty with the demand for the freedom of assembly.

Refugees from South Ossetia who live in Khurvaleti village, Gori District of Georgia, complain of intolerable living conditions. Arina Tavakarashvili, a UN expert who is in charge of monitoring the refugees' living conditions, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that in Khurvaleti the situation for refugees was bad from the very start of building houses for them. Refugees from Abkhazia also speak about heavy living conditions.

As stated by Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the signatories of the petition in defence of the relatives of the perished Ingush human rights defender Maksharip Aushev are threatened by some unidentified persons. These relatives were kidnapped last December.

The Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia (AYLG) has filed a claim to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in favour of relatives of a Georgian soldier lost during the August events in South Ossetia in 2008. The claim refers to facts of torture and murder by Russian and Ossetian militaries of the Georgian soldier named Georgiy Antsukhelidze.

Malik and Khadizhat Gataev, a married couple from Chechnya, who are presently in Helsinki, wait for the next trial on their case and hope for fair consideration.

On April 15, the settlement of Yantarny, Prokhladny District of Kabardino-Balkaria, will host the Cossack round to discuss the situation after the mass fight between the youth of the villages of Altud and Yantarny.

The Collegium of the Novgorod Regional Court has rejected cassations on the case of a bribery attempt on the inspector who was dealing with the "Neva-Express" train blowing up in 2007; thus, the verdict entered its legal force.

As reported by Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau), at the sitting of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), 26 members of the terrorist group, which organized blowing up of the "Neva-Express" train in November 2009, were liquidated, and 14 more were detained.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has officially confirmed the information that a group of Georgian tourists applied for political asylum in Israel, but at the same time found their demand unachievable.

Today, the Primorskiy District Court of Novorossisk has ruled that Vadim Karastelyov should pay 50,000 roubles to Vladimir Chernositov, head of the city UVD (Interior Department), who had accused the human rights activist of disseminating discrediting information.

Yesterday, on April 12, an explosion happened in the Kurchaloy District of Chechnya, as a result of which, as reported by law enforcement bodies of the republic, three militiamen were wounded.

As reported by law enforcement bodies, at night on April 12 in the east of Moscow two critically gunshot-wounded Azerbaijanis were found in a car.

Today, it became known that on April 7 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asked the government of the Russian Federation to present, before May 19, 2010, copies of all the documents relating to the measures taken to establish whereabouts of four relatives of human rights activist Maksharip Aushev, who was shot dead last October, or about their custody in case they are in hands of the state.

As reported by Ruslan Alkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, a kidnapping of a girl of 6 was solved hot on the trail in the republic; the kidnappers demanded a ransom of 2 million roubles for the child.

In the course of special actions aimed to neutralize suspected militants, which were resumed today in the morning in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, three soldiers of the MIA's internal troops were lost, and seven more were wounded.

The Inter-Regional Committee Against Torture (IRCAT) has managed to release Islam Umarpashaev, kidnapped on December 11, 2009, from his own house by unknown armed people in camouflage.

Today in Moscow, near the door of his flat in No. 24, Strelbischenskiy Lane, Federal Judge Eduard Chuvashov, who tried the nationalist groupings "Ryno-Skachevskiy" and "White Wolves", was shot dead. The investigation believes that it was a murder for hire.

The relatives of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the special battalion "Vostok" (East) of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), who became - one year ago in the United Arab Emirates - a victim of an attempt, welcomed the verdict passed in Dubai to Ramzan Kadyrov's groom Makhdi Lorniya, a native of Iran, and businessman from Tajikistan Maksudzhon Ismatov, who were convicted today to 25 years of imprisonment each.

The mother of a large family Zeinap Daurbekova, who was detained by power agents on April 8, is at large. As reported by her relatives, yesterday, on April 11, employees of the FSB handed Zeinap over to local militiamen, and the latter brought her home.