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After the arrest of Bakhtiyar Gajiev, active user of the social network Facebook in Azerbaijan, last week criminal proceedings were started against Elnur Mejidli, blogger and journalist currently residing in France.

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.

Governors of Russian regions continue disclosing their financial statements. Within the period from January 1 to December 31, 2010, the total earnings of Arsen Kanokov, head of Kabardino-Balkaria, amounted to 87,034,831 roubles. In 2009, he managed to earn only 1,003, 762 roubles. The incomes of other regional leaders are significantly lower.

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.

As reported by the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), the persons killed in a special operation in Dagestan have been preliminarily identified as active participants in the so-called "Tsuntin" bandit grouping.

In the section on Armenia of its report "Human Rights-2010" published on April 8, the US Department of State criticizes the situation with human rights, election processes, and situation in the army, media, law enforcement bodies and courts.

The Day of Memory and Mourning of the residents of the republic will be established on May, 10, from now on in Chechnya. This was the decision taken by Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyhrov after his meeting with members of the organizing committee formed upon his instruction on April, 10. February, 23, and May, 9, which had formerly been mourning days in the republic will now become holidays as they are in the whole Russia. Local observers have a critical attitude towards this decision considering that such innovations will continue the course of establishing and strengthening cult of personality in Chechnya.

Militiamen detained over 50 people at a football match between "Spartk" (Moscow) and "Terek" (Grozny) which passed off on April, 10, in Moscow stadium "Luzhniki".