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Analysts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” suggest that Alan Gagloev will become the winner in the second round of the presidential election in South Ossetia.

More than 12,500 refugees arrived in the Rostov Region from the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR, respectively) over a day, border guards reported.

The presidential election in South Ossetia is illegitimate, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated today, speaking in support of Georgia's territorial integrity.

In Krasnodar, Olga Aksyonova, an activist, was charged with discrediting the Russian Armed Forces after she lay down on the ground with her hands roped behind her back near a billboard with the inscription "Za Nashikh" (For Ours) in memory of those killed in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

Participants of the spontaneous action in Tskhinvali told the "Caucasian Knot" that they would not allow any falsification of voting outcomes.

Oleg Orlov, a human rights defender, who went out on April 11 with a poster onto Red Square in Moscow, was accused by law enforcers of violating the rules of picketing.

Tamara Grodnikova, a pensioner, has held a solo picket in Volgograd calling on the authorities to create a civilian commission to travel to Bucha and make public the findings about the massacres of civilians committed there.

Elections in South Ossetia are illegal and will have no legal force, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated. A similar statement was made by the MFAs of Lithuania and Latvia.

The pardoning act concerning 15 prisoners, including six citizens of Ukraine, was signed by the Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili.

On Saturday (April 9), Tbilisi commemorated the 21 persons, who perished during the dispersal by Soviet troops of the rally on April 9, 1989. The City Council named 10 streets after those who perished in those events.

Since February 24, 2022, a total of 6163 citizens of Ukraine have arrived in Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Migration Service has informed.

Artyom Verdiev, a military serviceman-native of the village of Belidji, has perished in Ukraine, the head of the Derbent District has informed. Since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the death of at least 73 natives of Dagestan has been officially confirmed.

A crater with a diameter of about three meters has formed in place of liquidation of the ammunition that fell into the building of a resident of the Frolov farm; villagers are afraid to talk about the incident, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has found out.

Irakli Garibashvili, the Georgian Prime Minister, has treated the allegations that the country is smuggling sanctioned goods to Russia, including military goods, put forward by the Ukrainian authorities, as slander.

The Baku Mayoralty has forbidden the Azerbaijan Democracy and Prosperity Party (ADPP) to hold a picket near the Russian Embassy with a demand to stop the special operation in Ukraine. The city authorities have explained the refusal by restrictions on holding mass events during the pandemic.

Bekhman Verdikhanov, an officer from Derbent, who perished in the special operation in Ukraine, received the above order for his courage and bravery. Since the outbreak of hostilities, the authorities have confirmed the death of at least 72 militaries from Dagestan in Ukraine.

Gyulmira Aslanova has held a protest action in front of the Azerbaijani presidential administration. She spoke out against beating up her husband, Polad Aslanov, a journalist, in the colony where he serves his prison term, and demanded to ensure his safety.

France and the United States intend to stop communicating with Russia on the settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh within the format of the Minsk Group of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), Sergey Lavrov, the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has stated.

On April 8, the contract servicemen, Muratbek Kilimov and Ramil Azhimov, were buried in the villages of the Volodarsky District. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 13 residents of the Astrakhan Region have perished there.

Should Nagorno-Karabakh authorities and Russian peacemakers provide security guarantees, the evacuated residents of the Khramort community plan to return to the village in order to engage in farming without fear of being shelled by Azerbaijani militaries.