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President of North Ossetia Taimuraz Mamsurov has instructed the Republic's Ministry of Finance to allocate from the reserve fund some 1.3 million roubles to cover the tax for training and residence at the lyceum boarding school "Podmoskovny" of 30 children-victims of Beslan terror act.

Currently, about 900 jobless city dwellers are involved in public works in the territory of Volgograd. Such works, although being a temporary measure, are efficient in mitigating the unemployment problem in the conditions of economy decline, as the officials of the Mayoralty of Volgograd believe.

Yesterday, on April 24, the stage of the agitation campaign before Sochi election was over, and today is the "day of silence". From the midnight of April 25, any public agitation for candidates to the post of Mayor of this city-resort is forbidden.

The pre-election campaign in Russian city-resort Sochi "cannot be called an election, it is more likely an appointment with elements of voting", as Sergey Obukhov, a State Duma Deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) believes.

Ibragim Gaseev, Deputy Defence Minister of South Ossetia, has stated today that last night Georgia used large-calibre weapons to shell, from Dirbi village, the village of Velit, Znaur District of South Ossetia. There were no casualties or victims.

Last night the opposition in Tbilisi carried out its first action of "chasing President", having disrupted Mikhail Saakashvili's late supper in the cafe near Mardzhanishvili Theatre. Saakashvili had to leave the place together with his bodyguards.

The car passenger, liquidated on April 22 in Kabardino-Balkaria by power agents, was identified as Zeitun Sultanov, leader of the local armed underground movement.

Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, a former Moscow's RUBOP (Department to Fight Organized Crime) agent and acquitted figurant in the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, can be interrogated under another criminal case, this time under suspicion of forging money.

In the mountain areas of Chechnya, which were announced under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, during the first three weeks in April, ten militants' bases and six hiding places were found. This is asserted by the Military Commandant's Office of Chechnya.

The investigation under the criminal case on blowing the "Neva-Express" train is over, and one of the defendants - Maksharip Khidriev was given the right to get acquainted with the materials of the case.

On April 24, the Memory Day of the victims of Armenians' genocide in Ottoman Empire of 1915-1922, all cities, towns and villages of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as the foreign countries, which have Armenian Diasporas, hold traditional mourning actions in memory of 1.5 million genocide victims.

On April 24 in Stavropol, the mini-park, named in honour of the 55th anniversary of the great victory of Soviet people over fascism, was the venue of a rally dated to the Memory Day of Victims of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes. This Memory Day is marked in Russia on April 26.

On April 22, the Surakhan District Court of Azerbaijan put a full stop in the case of Sayara Geidarova, accused of beating four men. The woman was sentenced to one year of conditional imprisonment.

In the mountainous Itum-Kalin and Vedeno Districts of Chechnya the broad-scale counterterrorist operation (CTO), launched three days ago by federal power agencies, continues.

Mikhail Mokretsov, Head of the Federal Tax Service (FTS), announced on April 22 a suspension of the procedure of collecting taxes from the parents of children-victims of Beslan terror act and trained at the "Podmoskovny" Lyceum situated in Korallovo near Moscow.

Last night an oppositionist was beaten in Tbilisi. Eka Beseliya, leader of the Party "Movement for United Georgia", has stated that the country's MIA fails to prevent violence and ensure safety of the participants of protest actions; accordingly, the Ministry "will receive adequate answer."

The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, has obliged journalists of the newspaper "Novoe Delo" to pay out 12,000 roubles to Zaur Gaziev, journalist of the newspaper "Free Republic", who was dissatisfied with reviews on his articles and fairy tale.

The experts of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia from the Special-Purpose Centre named "Leader" have started their work in Chechnya and already cleared 1.5 ha of agricultural land of mines and all kinds of bombs; the land belongs to the state farm "Zarya" (Dawn) located near Grozny.

Relatives of Adam Aushev, 21, a resident of Surkhakhi village, Nazran District, killed on March 21 by employees of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia, reject the DFSB's version about his armed resistance and insist on an extrajudicial execution of the young man.

Today, the European Court on Human Rights has announced its decisions on five cases related to violations of Chechen residents' rights. According to these decisions, the aggregate compensation awarded to the applicants on all five cases for their material and mental damage will make 549,700 euros.