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Department for Combating Corruption under General Prosecutor of Azerbaijan has completed the criminal investigation against Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", who was arrested last October on charges of bribery.

Vladimir Churov, Chairman of the Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC), said that, when watching videos from polling stations in Astrakhan, he saw no falsification; however, he found out violations of procedural nature.

According to law enforcement bodies, on April 16, over 10,000 people took part in a festive demonstration dated to the three years' anniversary of cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya. It was attended by officials from different ministries and agencies, students of higher and specialized secondary schools and pupils of secondary schools.

The Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan is verifying the information that law enforcement bodies may have to do with the kidnapping of the resident of Makhachkala Allakhverdi Radjabov; a similar check will be carried out of disappearance of the brothers Magomed and Abdulah Murtazaliev.

The Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Einullah Fatullaev is a laureate won the 2012 World Award of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano for his contribution into the cause of the freedom of the press.

At a briefing in Moscow, Oleg Shein told reporters that he would continue his personal hunger strike, despite the fact that he began - jointly with the Central Election Commission )CEC) - watching the video materials from polling stations during the election of the Mayor of Astrakhan.

A soldier of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan opened automatic fire at his comrades-in-arms and killed two soldiers and wounded two more, the local Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

Almasbey Kchach shot himself dead when law enforcers tried to detain him.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the complaint lodged by the Azerbaijani journalist Sarvan Rizvanov legitimate and obliged the government of Azerbaijan to pay him 4500 euros of moral compensation and 3000 euros to cover the legal costs. This was announced by Intigam Aliev, the head of the "Society for Legal Education", who is defending the claimant's rights.

At least 23 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from April 9 to April 15. Of these, fifteen persons were killed and eight more wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

During 10 hours, from 20:00. April, 16, till 6 o'clock this morning, Head of Central Election Committee (CEC) of the Russian Federation Vladimir Churov and ex-candidate for Mayor's office of Astrakhan Oleg Sheiyn viewed 42 video records with obvious violations, in Sheiyn's opinion, out of 202, Viacheslav Lysakov, Deputy from "United Russia" who was present during the scan time in the building of CEC, reported.

On April, 16, an action in support of Yaroslav Nikolsky, activist of "Yabloko" party, was held near the building of Permanent mission of Krasnodar region in Moscow. The participants of the pickets also demanded to dismiss the criminal case against Krasnodar ecologists Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko.

A meeting against poor state of the roadways was held in the town of Kotovo, Volgograd region, with the participation of about 500 persons. The action passed under the slogan "We want highways like Italian ones".