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Suicide bombers again blow them up in Northern Caucasus; unpleasant weather surprises paralyze life in the Krasnodar Territory; in Ingushetia, former deputy minister miraculously survives an attempt, - look these and other events in the review of the week of April 4-10, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The young man liquidated in Ingushetia on April 11 as a result of a fight had a driver's license and a student's record book of the Curative Department of the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy. Besides, documents of residents of Grozny and Armavir were found at the fight venue, said a source from local law enforcement bodies.

In March, at least 96 people were killed and wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus: 68 of them were killed and at least 27 injured. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Samvel Saakyan, a citizen of Armenia, suffered in the explosion, which was triggered yesterday, on April 11, in the Minsk metro; his health condition is regarded as of moderate gravity.

As reported by Alkhas Amirkhanov, senior assistant for PR of the head of the Dagestani Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), investigators believe that one of the major versions of the murder of a woman on April 11 in Kaspiisk have to do with her engagement in non-traditional healing methods.

Sandro Bregadze, ex-Deputy of the Parliament of Georgia, sentenced to probation and fined for malicious hooliganism with use of impromptu means, intends to further engage in prisoners' rights and creation of a new party.

The Chechen refugees now living in Turkey, among whom there are members of the Chechen separatist wing, are visiting by envoys of the current Chechen authorities, in particular, Shaa Turlaev, a former fighter and now Kadyrov's adviser, who force them to return to Chechnya, reports the European journalist Mark Broad. The information about such visits was confirmed by one of the refugees living in Turkey, who asked to call him Ruslan for the reasons of personal safety. According to his story, the authorities of Turkey refuse to investigate murders of Chechen refugees.

Today, the Moscow City Court continues the hearing of the criminal case on the murders of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anastasia Baburova. The session with participation of the jury began with a resonant statement of the accused Nikita Tikhonov. According to his story, he received firearms in October 2009, that is, after Markelov's murder.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, a Moscow student Ibragim Torshkhoev, a native of Krasnodar, who disappeared a few months ago and is now sought by relatives and law enforcement bodies, is considered, according to unofficial data, a possible suicide bomber.

In the village of Khasanya, a suburb of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, people in masks burned down a grocery store. Nobody was hurt.

Sultan-Girei Khashagulgov, Ex-Deputy Minister of Construction of the Republic of Ingushetia, who was wounded in an attempt, recovered consciousness this morning, as told by his relative Pyatimat Khashagulgova, who is his younger brother's wife.

Today, law enforcers detained another supposed instigator of mass riots in Manege Square in Moscow on December 11, 2010, said a source from law enforcement bodies of the Russian capital.