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Alaif Gasanov, an Azerbaijani lawyer, has filed a lawsuit against the Azerbaijani Bar Association (ABA) with a demand to restore his membership in this body. The ABA does not accept Gasanov into its ranks on a far-fetched pretext, a member of the Civil Society Platform and the head of the Centre for Monitoring Political Prisoners assert.

Some Instagram users have criticized the Dagestan police for publishing a video in which a law enforcer is scolding a woman from Makhachkala who sold illegal substances to teenagers. Their opponents have stood up for the police; and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) explained that the video was made public for edifying purposes.

The remains of Aram Mkrtchyan, a basketball player of the Armenian national team, who perished in the Karabakh war in the fall of 2020, have been buried in Stepanakert. He had volunteered for the war and perished presumably in the vicinity of Varanda, his friends have reported.

The appointed reconsideration of the claim put forward by human rights defenders against the investigators who had refused to check the threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov does not guarantee that his statements will be really examined. This was stated by Oleg Orlov, a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and Dmitry Makarov, a co-chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG).

The Chechen Supreme Court (SC) has ruled to reconsider the claim of human rights defenders against the investigators who had refused to check the threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov.

Fatima Khazueva, the finalist of the beauty contest, who enjoys Ramzan Kadyrov's favour, owns a luxurious mansion in Grozny; she, along with Ramzan's wife, possesses apartments in elite residential complexes in Moscow. This is stated in the investigation of the edition named "Project".

Residents of Azerbaijani villages and towns, who came under fire during the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, have declared that authorities had violated their promises of paying compensations for destroyed houses.

In the evening on April 6, law enforcers completed their special actions in the Sunzha District; the mobile Internet disconnected for the time being was restored only on Wednesday morning, local residents have informed. According to unofficial information, the checks had to do with the case initiated after the rally in Magas.

The documentary "Doazuv" (Border) Maryana Kalmykova has been removed from screening at the "Artdocfest" festival because of the position of the Russian Ministry of Culture, which saw incitement of interethnic hatred in the film. It tells about protests of the residents of Ingushetia against the border agreement with Chechnya.

Salman Tepsurkaev, a moderator of the opposition 1Adat Telegram Channel, fell victim to a campaign to persecute dissidents in Chechnya and he is a political prisoner, announces the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*.

The Chechen GIBDD (road police) releases a video in which four residents of Urus-Martan are apologizing for violating traffic rules on a wedding day.

Despite numerous street surveillance cameras, the law enforcement bodies failed to find a person who poured chemical liquid over the entrance to the building hosting the editorial office of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”. The investigations into attacks on the newspaper employees were also ineffective.

Activists of the "Veto" movement accused the Armenian authorities of the pro-Turkish policy and concealment of information about combat losses and prisoners of war (POWs). Female participants of a rally dedicated to the Motherhood and Beauty Day tried to break into the government building. At least one of the protestors was detained.

The military servicemen, Aliev Punkhan Shaban oglu and Bakhtiyar Ilgaroglu, have been wounded in a mine explosion near the village of Sugovushan while searching for missing soldiers.

Zarifa Sautieva's health condition has deteriorated in recent days; she needs an endocrinologist's consultation, Bilan Dzugaev, her advocate, has stated.

A group of Azerbaijani journalists and bloggers has demanded from the Russian party to officially comment on the use of "Iskander" missile complexes in the recent Karabakh, as well as to investigate the use thereof in shelling of Shusha.

The "Artdocfest" festival has posted the film "Welcome to Chechnya" about the persecution of gays on its online platform; they are also preparing an online screening of the documentary "Quiet Voice". In Moscow, "the rules of life are dictated from Chechnya," said the programme director of the festival in connection with the pressure on the organizers.

The serial "Topi" (Moors) to the scenario by Dmitry Glukhovsky, has outraged social network users from Chechnya, who treated the behaviour of the film's heroine as immoral. Some commentators demanded apologies from the writer; others expressed direct threats against him, after which Glukhovsky's personal data appeared on the Internet, including his address and cell phone number.

During the shelling in the fall of 2020, in the territory controlled by Karabakh authorities, a total of 6943 apartments and private houses were completely destroyed or damaged, as it follows from the applications submitted by local residents. In their turn, authorities counted 24 unrecoverable and 58 badly destroyed houses in Stepanakert and Martuni District.

Armenia may have a non-export version of Iskander missile systems, despite the Russia’s commitments not to provide such type of weapons to other countries, experts say. Direct sales to Yerevan of weapons intended for the Russian army have unlikely taken place, analyst Alexander Golts believes. He also doubts very much the possibility of Russia using Iskander missile systems during the Karabakh conflict.