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Former commandant of Chechnya Sergey Kizyun, who was attacked in a car in central Moscow together with ex-deputy of State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev, has recognized the latter's killer by his eyes. Mr Kizyun has stated that they had been attacked by Aslanbek Dadaev, a native of Chechnya. Dadaev's advocates would not agree with Sergey Kizyun.

A number of objects, built in South Ossetia for Russia's money, will remain in RF's ownership. According to political scientist Dmitri Oreshkin, this Russia's decision is caused by the desire to keep control over spending of the 10 billion roubles, which RF plans to allot on restoration of South Ossetia.

The events that took place almost simultaneously in Ingushetia on April 19 - attempts on Alikhan Geroev, head of the criminal investigation department of Sunzha OVD, and religious figure Musa Esmurziev - are not linked with each other. This is the opinion of human rights activist Magomed Mutsolgov, leader of the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr" and a member of the Expert's Board of Russian Ombudsman's office.

The prosecutor asked the court to sentence Vladimir Bukreev, former deputy chair of the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court, who passed a verdict of guilty in 2003 to Yuri Budanov for killing a Chechen girl, to ten years of imprisonment.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov is sure that Ingushetia, which is bordering on the Chechen Republic, will not be negatively affected by cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya.

In Kurchaloy District of Chechnya, during the last two months, part of salary money of the medical personnel of the district hospital was deduced. The medical people are indignant but fear to complain.

In response to NATO's military exercises in Georgia, planned in the territory of Georgia from May 6 to June 1, 2009, Abkhazia will hold its own ones, as Republic's President Sergey Bagapsh has stated.

On May 4-5, a mission of observers of the Congress of the Council of Europe (CE) will come to Yerevan for observing local and territorial elections. The mission members will meet state officials and representatives of political forces who plan to take part in the elections of the Board of Elders of the Yerevan City Mayoralty.

In honour of the Easter, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has pardoned 390 prisoners, including 23 women and 6 minors.

Seiran Shakhsuvaryan, press secretary of Minister of Defence of Armenia, has announced today that Armenia will take part in the NATO's military exercises "Cooperative Longbow 2009" planned in the territory of Georgia from May 6 to June 1, 2009.

Rasul Kudaev and Azret Shavaev, defendants in the case dealing with events in Nalchik on October 13, 2005, and their advocates Magomed Abubakarov and Tatiana Psomiadi have addressed their complaint to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on violation of the defendants' constitutional rights.

The Prosecutor's Office does not put any obstacles in the course of inquiry into the murder case of Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru". This was stated by President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

Student Parviz Azimov was dismissed from the Lenkoran State University situated in the south of Azerbaijan. The student is confident that the reason of his dismissal was his article "Corruption Scandal in Lenkoran University".

In Chechnya, families of the inmates convicted for grave crimes under articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation have addressed the so-called UFSIN (Russian corrective administration) with a request to transfer their relatives for serving their punishments closer to their homes - to have opportunities to visit them.

President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh plans to run for his second term at the presidential election to be held in Abkhazia this December.

In Azerbaijan, independent advocates are prosecuted, and it is done by judges instead of defending citizens' rights. This was stated on April 16 by Leila Yunus, Director of Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), at the roundtable "State of courts in Azerbaijan and lawlessness in the judiciary".

Under investigation of the case about a series of explosions in Sochi, several Arabs-students of the Sochi Branch of the Russian People's Friendship University were detained as suspects of making the explosive.

Law-enforcement bodies of North Ossetia are trying to capture an armed criminal who murdered a woman. The crime was committed on April 16 in the evening in secondary school No. 26 located in the Kosta Avenue of Vladikavkaz.

In the high-mountainous Shatoy District of Chechnya, a combat collision burst out between Russian militaries and a group of militants. There is no data about any casualties or victims. The skirmish happened right at the time, when Grozny hosted a rally-concert dedicated to cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the republic.

Today, at about 11 a.m., an explosion took place in one of the cafes in central Nazran. The building was essentially damaged: windows were broken and walls damaged. None of the visitors or personnel suffered.