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During the week of April 19-25, 2021, during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no information about the casualties or wounded persons was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The movie "Dear Comrades!" about the execution by shooting of Novocherkassk workers in 1962 has received the Nika Prize as the best feature film of 2020. Andrei Konchalovsky, a film director, and Yulia Vysotskaya, the starring actress, received the for Best Director and Best Actress Awards.

Concerts, a bike rally and a flash mob were held on April 25 in Adygea on the occasion of the Circassian Flag Day. In connection with the holiday, Kabardino-Balkaria held concerts of creative groups; and Karachay-Cherkessia – a car rally and a free screening of the film "Circassia".

The owner of an apartment that was rented in Tbilisi by two women-members of the LGBT community is accused of beating them up. The attack on people of non-traditional sexual orientation was the second in the capital of Georgia within a week.

Until late at night on April 24, in Yerevan, people kept coming to the "Tsitsernakaberd" Memorial Complex to the victims of the Armenian Genocide, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The US state of Idaho declared April 24 as the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Armenian Genocide and recognized the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian National Committee of America reported on Facebook.

The torture case against Albert Khamkhoev, a resident of Ingushetia, was suspended 13 times, although the main evidence in the case has already been collected. Further, everything depends on the initiative of the investigation, said the lawyers of the "Committee against Torture" Magomed Alamov.

In one of the colonies, located in the Smolensk Region, three prisoners from Dagestan, a native of Azerbaijan and six other convicts have gone on a hunger strike. Their relatives have filed complaints about systematic bullying of inmates in the colony.

The participants in commemorative events in Stepanakert have demanded that the world community to recognize the Armenian Genocide and the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh. Flowers and wreaths were laid at the monument in memory of those who perished in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, and at the war memorial.

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has treated the statement made by US President, Joe Biden, on the Armenian Genocide as populism; and Baku accused him of distorting the historical truth.

On April 25, the city of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) will host a concert, dances and a flash mob on the occasion of the Circassian Flag Day. Circassians are scattered across many countries and especially need such a unifying symbol as a flag, the organizers of the events believe.

In Yerevan, a torchlight march in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire was held under the motto "Recognition, Condemnation, Compensation!" The marchers called for seeking compensations from Turkey.

The victory of Adam Kadyrov in the fight with Aslan Bittirov was staged; and Bittirov's coaches were not independent when deciding to stop the fight, Nazhmudin Berbekov, the head of the boxing federation of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has suggested.

The health condition of Gusein Abdullaev, a former Azerbaijani MP, who is serving his term in a colony, is critical, but the Penitentiary Service would not send doctors to him, his advocate has stated. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has demanded information from Azerbaijani authorities about Abdullaev's state of health and the measures taken to provide him with medical care.

The change in the US geopolitical strategy and the deterioration of US-Turkish relations increase the chances that President Joe Biden will pronounce the word "genocide" on April 24, Ruben Safrastyan, a Turkologist, and Suren Sargsyan, an Americanist, assert.

Investigators are checking the application of Timur Mazaev, the editor-in-chief of the "Ossetia News" about the threats he received from a son of the former head of North Ossetia. Timur's colleagues find it necessary to achieve punishment of the author of threats.

The authorities of Armenia did not react in any way to the refusal of Russian delegates to discuss the problem around the return of prisoners of war (POWs) by Azerbaijan, as they are afraid to worsen relations with Moscow, Armenian political analysts note.

Ella Kesaeva, the co-chair of the “Voice of Beslan” public committee, and three other activists, who had been on hunger strike with the demand to let a doctor visit oppositionist Alexei Navalny in a penal colony, stopped their protest action.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) granted the complaints lodged by journalists Avaz Zeinalov and Elchin Gasanov, as well as activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev. As a result, the Strasbourg Court obliged the Azerbaijan’s authorities to pay compensation to the complainants in the amount of 33,350 euros. For almost 20 years of Azerbaijan being under the jurisdiction of the ECtHR, sanctions for 20 million euros have been announced against the country, says Khalid Agaliev, a lawyer of the Media Rights Institute.

The programme of professional training for residents of Northern Caucasian for their employment, announced by the Worldskills Foundation, will not meet expectations, as there are few jobs for highly skilled workers in the region, some analysts suggest. Their opponents argue that high-tech professions are in demand everywhere, and specialists can work online.