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In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), two residents of Karachaevo-Circassia and a resident of Adygea, detained on March 19 in the city of Tyrnyauz, have lodged complaints to human rights organizations saying they were exposed to illegal inquiry methods.

On April 15, at the monument to victims to political repressions, located between the cities of Nazran and Magas in Ingushetia, a protest action was conducted by relatives of the young people, kidnapped during the last week in the Malgobek District.

Today, the Moscow Garrison Military Court has started the hearing on the case of Vladimir Bukreev, former judge of the North-Caucasian Regional Court, who in 2003 passed the verdict of guilty to Colonel Yuri Budanov who had killed a Chechen girl.

Ali Aliev, born in 1984, a resident of Leninkent village in a suburb of Makhachkala, asserts that he was kidnapped and beaten by law enforcers. The incident happened in the daytime a week ago in the presence of plenty of witnesses, as he himself said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In the evening on April 15 in Nazran (Ingushetia), under unclear circumstances a young woman was murdered, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the Investigatory Division (ID) of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation for Ingushetia.

On April 14, in the capital of Georgia, popular local singer Zurab Mandzhavidze, who took part in the actions of the opposition, was beaten.

Now, at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, the state prosecutor is announcing the indictment as presented to the defendants. The basic leitmotif of the document - the defendants tried to dethrone the Russia's existing state order and create an Islamic state.

On April 14, Federal Judge of the Kirov District of the city of Makhachkala Yaguzar Magomedov found illegitimate the actions of the employees of the IVS (temporary custody facility) at the ROVD of Makhachkala who did not admit advocate Abakar Aliev to his client Ahmed Aliev, detained in the course of a special operation, referring to the order of Rasul Gazimagomedov, head of the GUVD, about special regime.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by a source in the Military Commandant's Office of Chechnya that one of the reasons of incident, during which on April 12 a soldier of the Federal Forces deployed in Chechnya shot dead three of his comrades could be nationality-based aversions among militaries.

A contract soldier Irkit Res-Tarochin, who deserted from a subdivision of the Internal Troops of Russia's MIA deployed in the Martan District of Chechnya, was detained in the evening yesterday, on April 13.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has refused to satisfy the advocates' petitions on sending a request to the Constitutional Court of Russia on conformity of the amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure (CCP), adopted by the State Duma and stipulating exclusion of cases having anti-state character from jurisdiction of juries, to Russian Constitution. The court decided that any citizen of the country, including advocates, may send such request to the Constitutional Court by his or her own.

The reason of the attack on Abdullagun Aliev, 49, and his son Adam, 19, residents of Ekazhevo village of Nazran District, committed by unidentified persons on April 12 in their village could be their dealing with alcohol drinks, as local residents explained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.