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Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said that he would take the investigation of the crime, committed at night on April 21 in Moscow as a result of which Kalmyk student Dolgan Nikeev was killed and his friend Vladimir Sanzhiev was wounded, under his personal supervision, the President's press service reports.

At her press conference on April 23 at the RIA "Novosti", Ella Pamfilova, chairperson of the board at the President of the Russian Federation on promotion of development of civil society institutes and human rights, said that unemployment and corruption in Northern Caucasus are the main causes generating extremism.

As reported by a source in law enforcement bodies, in the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, a grenade was thrown into the house of a local resident, a worker of the recreation centre.

On April 23, a self-made explosive device was found and neutralized near the building of the Lenin ROVD (District Interior Division) in Rostov-on-Don.

Tomorrow, on April 24, Kalmykia will hold a civil protest action against xenophobia and fascism in the context of the murder in Russian capital at night on April 21 of Dolgan Nikeev, a student of the Moscow State Open University.

In the opinion of Susanna Dudieva, head of the "Beslan Mothers" Association of Terror Act Victims, the investigation of the terror act in Beslan was deliberately "braked" and will be further protracted. Discontent with the course of investigation was also voiced by Ella Kesaeva, leader of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan". Alexander Khalin, head of the investigatory group, does not agree with them.

In Ingushetia, Ms Bokova, F. M., a resident of Karabulak accuses power agents of kidnapping on April 21 of her son Bokov, Khizar Batredinovich, born in 1986, right from their house. The woman has addressed human rights entities and organizations asking to help in searching her son.

Remains of two residents of Chechnya captured by Russian militaries in the course of "zachistka" (cleanup operation) in spring 2002 were found in the Shali District. The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has restarted the criminal case, which was suspended several years ago because of non-establishment of the persons involved in this crime.

Issues of improving the efficiency of and supporting the recently organized Russian system of public control over detention places were discussed on April 21 in Moscow at the international conference on defence of prisoners' rights.

The today's session of the Baku Appeal Court under chairmanship of Abid Abdinbekov on the case "MIA of Azerbaijan versus Eyub Kerimov, editor-in-chief of the 'Femida-007' newspaper" lasted just for a couple of minutes. The reason was the intention of the respondent to lodge a cassation complaint against rejection by the Baku Appeal Court of his petitions put forward at the preparatory session and asking to return the case to the first instance court for running a repeated investigation.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the complaint of Maria Fanzieva, 65, a resident of Nalchik, eligible for consideration. The response of the Court addressed to her reports that "the complaint fits to be considered both for the eligibility and circumstances of the case on the merits at the same time in conformity with Article 29, paragraph 3 of the Convention."

One of the bombs triggered yesterday, on April 20, in the evening in the capital of Dagestan, blew up under a BMW car, when Mirza, son of Colonel of Dagestan FSB Kamil Etinbekov, assassinated in 2004, was trying to get in.

The MIA of Chechnya has summed up its achievements in the first quarter of 2010. According to the official data, as a result of special operations conducted from the start of the year in the territory of the republic, 20 suspected militants were killed, 54 more members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) and their helpers were detained.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" believes that the evidential base in the case about the militants' attack on power structures of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, is invalid, and demands to stop the criminal case against Kazbek Budtuev and release him from custody. This is stated in the message of the Centre, which had provided an advocate to defend Kazbek Budtuev and Rasul Kudaev.

The video report, in which the attempter on Isa Yamadaev names President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to be the customer of the crime is a provocation. This was stated by Andrei Krasnenkov, Mr Kadyrov's advocate.