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In Tskhinvali, Lyudmila Usovich, a local resident, went on a hunger strike. She is the mother of Georgy Zasseev, a citizen of South Ossetia, who is serving his life sentence in Gldani Prison No. 8 in Georgia.

The Investigatory Department of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia has completed a preliminary criminal investigation into the attempt on former presidential candidate Paruir Airikyan.

The head of the military police department in Senaki and two military policemen, dismissed from service for misconduct, were detained on April 18 by the prosecutor's office of Adzharia; one more employee was put on the wanted list.

On April 18, in Ingushetia, search of Dokku Umarov was continued, but because of the actions of the Ingush party the secret special operation to capture him was disrupted, said a high-ranking law enforcement official of Chechnya.

On April 17, in the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, at the trial of Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado", the court listened to the experts, authors of the linguistic examination of the texts written by Mamedov, and of the forensic and technical examination of the carriers used to record the texts. The defence disagreed with the experts and demanded to exclude their opinions from the case files.

On April 17, the Nasimi District Court of Baku under the chairmanship of Judge Elnur Akhmedov considered the appeal lodged by Rashadat Akhundov, a board member of the civil movement "Nida" (Shout), asking to change his custody for home arrest. The court rejected the motion and left him behind bars.

On April 17, the MPs from the "Georgian Dream" accused President Mikhail Saakashvili of spending much money from the secret budget of the Special State Security Service on entertainments, personal whims, as well as gifts. Saakashvili, in his turn, has noted that the financial expenses were aimed at improving the image of Georgia and attraction of investments.

The "Esquire" magazine has published a list of Russian regions ranked by the number of extremist materials, included in the federal list of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation by decisions of the local courts. In this rating, Caucasus does not look the most extremist part of Russia. Experts believe that the rating does not reflect the real state of things and sooner indicates the problems in the work of law enforcement bodies than the level of prevalence of extremist moods and publications.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has sent the criminal case against five defendants accused of murdering Anna Politkovskaya to the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) for confirmation of the indictment and transfer to the court.

On April 18, the Stavropol Regional Court dismissed the appeal complaint lodged by the former staff members of the OVD (Interior Division) sentenced to 3.5-6 years of imprisonment for abuse and violence against Vyacheslav Merekha, a detained local resident.

On April 17, in the Novgorod Region, Olamafruz Ismailov, a 21-year-old citizen of Tajikistan, who is suspected of murdering a native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) in Saint Petersburg, was detained.