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Robert Shlegel, a Russian State Duma Deputy and a member of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party, has brought to consideration of the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament a draft amendment to the law on the mass media, assuming a ban on any citing of terrorists' statements.

In Georgia, 66 inmates will be at large before term and welcome Easter in their families. The respective decision was made by the commission on conditional-early relief at its sitting on April 2.

Today, the court has released under recognizance not to leave a muscovite Konstantin Pereverzev, who struck the famous human rights defender Liudmila Alekseeva at the action in memory of the victims of the terror act committed at the Park Kultury metro station. Pereverzev admitted his guilt and repented. But Alekseeva is not going to forgive him.

The meeting of Armenian and Turkish intellectuals, forthcoming on April 24-25 in Ankara, will discuss the issues related to causes and consequences of Armenians' genocide in the Ottoman Turkey.

On April 3, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Georgia stopped accepting applications from the parties willing to take part in the elections to institutions of local self-government to be held on May 30. In total, the CEC received applications from 36 parties.

The Amnesty International (AI) asserts that Georgia had purchased in Germany tools for torturing people. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia denies the accusations.

A special operation is on in the village of Stary Kostek, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. Power agents are searching relatives of Jennet Abdurakhmanova, suspected of committing a suicidal terror act on March 29 at Park Kultury Moscow metro station.

Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman of Armenia, stood against the offered format of his participation in the forum of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) to be held in Yerevan on April 6-8. He sent a letter to the organizers asking to exclude him from the list of participants, as "he would not be given a chance to express his viewpoint alternative to the authorities' one."

The Territorial Fund of Mandatory Medical Insurance in the Chechen Republic has held a sociology poll and announced by its outcomes that the overwhelming majority (76 percent) of Chechen residents are satisfied with the medical aid available.

It is expected that the new Business Centre will promote Italian-Russian business cooperation, growth of trade and expansion of contacts between the two countries.

On April 2, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan listened to the report of Elmira Suleimanova - the national Ombudsperson - for 2009.

Vyacheslav Kovalenko, Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia to Armenia, has called not to put trust in rumours about deportation of Caucasus natives from Russia after the terror acts in Moscow metro stations Park Kultury and Lubyanka. President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev called not to offend people, when waging war on terror, by their nationalities or geographical origin.

On April 1 in the evening, in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, unidentified opened fire on the service car of the head Aksai settlement police station at the local ROVD (District Militia Division). And on the day of terror acts - on March 31 - a powerful bomb was neutralized in the Kizlyar District. In both cases there were no casualties and victims.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Russian Federation does not plan to send its recruits to Chechnya. This was stated by Colonel Alexei Kuznetsov, head of the department of the press service and information of the Ministry, in his comments on the rumours that newly-drafted soldiers would be sent to the units deployed in Chechnya.

Today in Baku, at about midday, a group of activists of the World Congress of Azerbaijanis (WCA) has held a non-authorized protest action in front of the embassy of Iran in Azerbaijan. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the participants of the action came there to express their discontent with the actions of the authorities of Iran, who are damaging the ecology in the north of the country, where Azerbaijanis live. The point is in economic activities around Lake Urmia.

Doctor of Economy Mikhail Delyagin, chairman of the organizing committee of the Party "Homeland: Common Sense", also shared, at the press conference at the Independent Press Centre, his vision of the versions of the terror acts committed on March 29 in Moscow metro and on March 31 in Dagestan.

After the explosions in Moscow metro, mass media have repeatedly named the activities of terrorists as the actions of "Chechen separatists", which is wrong, as since 2004, after the terror act in Beslan, no "Chechen separatists" exist. This was stated by political scientist Sergey Markedonov, head of the division of interethnic relations of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, at the discussion held in Moscow on March 29: "Who has blown up Moscow and Kizlyar: Islamites, Separatists or Just Bandits?"

In Ingushetia, three brothers of oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev were announced into federal search as suspects of attacking Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of local President.

A source in law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia has reported that the unidentified persons are being searched, who shelled on April 1 in Nazran an Ural truck with frontier guards from grenade launchers.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has imposed a fine on Russia in the sum of 70,000 euros for disappearance on December 18, 2003, of Bashir Mutsolgov. This is stated in the Court's decision.