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Georgia is transporting weapons, POL (petroleum, oil and lubricants), foodstuffs and other material and technical means to the upper section of the Kodor Gorge, and deploys national armed forces there. This is reported in today's comment of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs asserts that Yamadaev brothers' participation in kidnapping and subsequent murdering Yusup and Yunus Arsamakovs has been evidenced by a former fighter of the "Vostok" (East) special battalion.

In Kislovodsk, Gennady Popkov, leader of the city branch of the NGO named "The Union of Pensioners of Kislovodsk", was dismissed from his main work at the city hospital "for alleged absenteeism", as the victim himself told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In Makhachkala, a picket was held at the building of Dagestan government by members of the local organization of Chernobyl accident liquidators of the Buinak District, who demanded that the court ruling on issuance of housing certificates were enforced.

This year, Stavropol Territory has received only 34 housing certificates for forced migrants, while today's waiting list comprises 1500 persons.

If necessary, Russia will defend its citizens living in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Sergey Mironov, Speaker of the Federation Council, has stated today, having noted that Russia has also the right to apply force, if required.

The investigation made by Anton Vernitskiy, journalist of Channel One, in his film "Plan Kavkaz", shown on April 22 and dedicated to the attempts in early 1990s of external forces, including Baku and Ankara, to separate Chechnya from Russia, has caused bewilderment in Azerbaijan.

Abkhazia has denied the news about the attack on the office of the branch of the Danish Council on Refugees in the Galskiy District of Republic that was undertaken today at night, according to the information of Georgian TV Companies.

In the Imereti Bay, Old Ritualists managed to make a photo of the official who had provoked a collision with militiamen. According to the updated information, the name of the girl who suffered on April 23 during the collision with militia and OMON is Anna Tkachenko.

By the ruling of the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia, Mack Shannon Lie, a US citizen, who has broken the sojourn regulations of the Russian Federation, was fined and expelled from the country.

In many countries of the world, where Armenians live, actions were held on April 24-25 dedicated to the memory of the victims of 1915 Armenian genocide.

Today, Rostov-on-Don will mark another anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The mournful meeting will take place near the city's monument to tragedy victims.

At the meeting with Dennis Kief, GB's Ambassador to Georgia who arrived to Sukhumi on Friday, prime minister of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab expressed his surprise with the negative reaction of the leading European countries, who criticised Russia's lifting up of economic sanctions against Abkhazia.

Matthaus Jorsch, a member of the delegation of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has stated that presentation a NATO membership plan to Georgia will depend on the fairness level of the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

On April 25, the Parliament of Abkhazia sent a message to the leaders of the NATO, European Union and United States with regret for the negative reaction of these entities and some other states to Moscow's initiatives in support of this non-recognized republic.

According to Kakha Kukava, one of the leaders of the Conservative Party, pressure on candidates from the opposition and members of their families continues in Georgia. He also told that the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia had published voters' lists without doorway and apartment numbers, which makes room for future falsifications.

Today at night, unknown persons set a car model VAZ-2107 belonging to military journalist Uzeir Dzhafarov on fire.

The ruling party "Eni Azerbaijan" has filed a complaint to the Board for the Press against satirical verses of poet Mirza Sakit (Zakhidov), who is now in prison.

On April 24, in his annual traditional address to the Armenian community of the USA on the day of genocide against Armenians, George W. Bush, President of the USA, treated the tragic events of 1915 as "massacre and deportation".

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic is accusing Selim Bimurzaev, a militants' commander from the village of Eshilkhatoy, of shelling the representative of Chechen Ombudsman in the Vedeno District and murdering two girls.