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At night on April 2, Magomed Nurudinov, who is serving his sentence at the Penal Colony No. 2 (IK-2) in the Kalmyk village of Yashkul, tried to commit suicide by hanging, said Vladimir Galitrov, the head of the regional branch of the All-Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights".

Today, two activists have held solo pickets in front of the administration of the Astrakhan Region and Secondary School No. 32 in support of the demands of the political hunger-strikers.

The defence of the figurants in the case on the riots in Manege Square intends to appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court, which dismissed the advocates' cassation complaints and upheld the verdict of the Tver Court of Moscow, at the Russia's supervisory instance and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Relatives, neighbours, colleagues and acquaintances of the employee of the "Vodokanal" Abubakar Tsechoev, who was kidnapped on March 22 in Ingushetia by unidentified power agents, demand from the leaders of Russia and Ingushetia to admit a lawyer and a physician to him, as well as establish and punish all those involved in the incident.

Shops, kiosks and cafes are closed in Chechnya as a result of the checks conducted by a special inter-ministry commission. In order to obtain a permit to resume the work, huge bribes are requested, some local businessmen assert.

In the course of the rally "For Faith, Kuban and Fatherland", held in Krasnodar on March 31, several activists decided to hold solo pickets in the same area calling to forgive the Pussy Riot performers. They were stopped by the rally securities, who tore into pieces the posters with quotations from the Bible, the activists said. The authorities and Cossacks refused to comment their actions.

Search of the flat of Geidar (Heydar) Jemal in Moscow; set up of commission for militants' adaptation and demand of resignation of Derev, Member of the Federation Council in Karachay-Cherkessia; approval of Konstantin Khramov, Mayor of Nevinnomyssk, as Prime Minister of the Volgograd Region; rally of oppositional Armenian National Congress in Yerevan; Azerbaijanis mark Genocide Day, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 26-April 1, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Elena Spasskaya, Director of the Sochi Municipal Enterprise "Direction for Operating Trade Gallery", accused of a large-scale fraud, has undergone a surgery at Oncology Hospital No. 4 and was returned to the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

At least 82 persons became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus in March, 2012. 63 persons out of them perished and 19 got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Government of the Russian Federation confirmed the right of “Kroton” limited company of recovery of 20 ton sand in the Black sea shelf opposite the health resort of Anapa, representatives of “Environmental Watch on North Caucasus” state.

More than ten thousand people gathered today at a rally in Chistyakov Grove in Krasnodar in support of revival of spiritual and moral values. The event was caused by the "punk prayer" staged in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral by the group named "Pussy Riot".

The commemoration ceremony in memory of victims of ethnic clashes in March 1918 was held in different regions of Azerbaijan.