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Refugees from South Ossetia who live in Khurvaleti village, Gori District of Georgia, complain of intolerable living conditions. Arina Tavakarashvili, a UN expert who is in charge of monitoring the refugees' living conditions, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that in Khurvaleti the situation for refugees was bad from the very start of building houses for them. Refugees from Abkhazia also speak about heavy living conditions.

As stated by Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the signatories of the petition in defence of the relatives of the perished Ingush human rights defender Maksharip Aushev are threatened by some unidentified persons. These relatives were kidnapped last December.

The Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia (AYLG) has filed a claim to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in favour of relatives of a Georgian soldier lost during the August events in South Ossetia in 2008. The claim refers to facts of torture and murder by Russian and Ossetian militaries of the Georgian soldier named Georgiy Antsukhelidze.

On April 15, the settlement of Yantarny, Prokhladny District of Kabardino-Balkaria, will host the Cossack round to discuss the situation after the mass fight between the youth of the villages of Altud and Yantarny.

The Collegium of the Novgorod Regional Court has rejected cassations on the case of a bribery attempt on the inspector who was dealing with the "Neva-Express" train blowing up in 2007; thus, the verdict entered its legal force.

As reported by Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau), at the sitting of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), 26 members of the terrorist group, which organized blowing up of the "Neva-Express" train in November 2009, were liquidated, and 14 more were detained.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has officially confirmed the information that a group of Georgian tourists applied for political asylum in Israel, but at the same time found their demand unachievable.

Today, the Primorskiy District Court of Novorossisk has ruled that Vadim Karastelyov should pay 50,000 roubles to Vladimir Chernositov, head of the city UVD (Interior Department), who had accused the human rights activist of disseminating discrediting information.

Yesterday, on April 12, an explosion happened in the Kurchaloy District of Chechnya, as a result of which, as reported by law enforcement bodies of the republic, three militiamen were wounded.

As reported by law enforcement bodies, at night on April 12 in the east of Moscow two critically gunshot-wounded Azerbaijanis were found in a car.

As reported by Ruslan Alkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, a kidnapping of a girl of 6 was solved hot on the trail in the republic; the kidnappers demanded a ransom of 2 million roubles for the child.