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In Dagestan, a project is launched of a new multilingual social network GODUDU.COM, which uses a translation technology that will allow users who speak different languages to communicate with each other in their native languages. According to the designers, the network should become a public discussion platform - a number of Dagestani officials have already opened their posts there. The GODUDU.COM has no pre-moderation.

In Moscow, the court has sentenced a Muscovite Vladislav Khakhanov to a conditional term for participation in the pogroms in Manege Square on December 11, 2010. For beating in the metro a man of non-Slavic appearance he was sentenced to conditional imprisonment for a term of six months with one-year probation.

Head of the police of the Kaitag District Lieutenant-Colonel Abdurashid Bibulatov accuses local authorities of gross embezzlements and concealment of serious criminal offences. The acting head of the district denies the charges, while the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has no information on the topic.

The Petrovskiy District Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced a woman-resident of Svetlograd to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment for false reports about impending explosions.

Vasily Mikheev, ex-Head of Semikarakorsk urban settlement of Rostov region, has been convicted for abuse of authority which caused damages to a sum of over one million rubles.

Currently, Armenian penitentiary institutions (PIs) are severely overcrowded, which leads to deterioration of custody conditions and increase of death rate there, human rights defenders and politicians of Armenia assert.

Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) awarded the "Human Rights" prize to a Russian non-governmental organization "Committee Against Torture" of Nizhny Novgorod for investigations of crimes in Chechnya. The respective decision was officially announced on April, 12, within the framework of the spring session of the organization in Strasbourg.

An audit conducted by investigating bodies of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation) for the Astrakhan Region at the Raznochinovskiy orphanage-boarding school in the context of reports about multiple deaths of pupils found no evidences of crime.

A mass scuffle with the use of firearms took place on April, 13, in the settlement of Jimikent, Derbent district of Dagestan. One person was killed, three more got wounded.

The Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria has introduced a law in draft to the State Duma suggesting to cancel the clause of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation according to which a citizen is exempted from liability "for concealment of a crime committed by his of her spouse or close relative not promised beforehand".

The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don found Vladimir Bagin, a local resident, guilty of willingly false reports about terror acts and sentenced him to a real term in prison, said the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region.