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In the course of special actions aimed to neutralize suspected militants, which were resumed today in the morning in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, three soldiers of the MIA's internal troops were lost, and seven more were wounded.

Today in Moscow, near the door of his flat in No. 24, Strelbischenskiy Lane, Federal Judge Eduard Chuvashov, who tried the nationalist groupings "Ryno-Skachevskiy" and "White Wolves", was shot dead. The investigation believes that it was a murder for hire.

The relatives of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the special battalion "Vostok" (East) of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), who became - one year ago in the United Arab Emirates - a victim of an attempt, welcomed the verdict passed in Dubai to Ramzan Kadyrov's groom Makhdi Lorniya, a native of Iran, and businessman from Tajikistan Maksudzhon Ismatov, who were convicted today to 25 years of imprisonment each.

The mother of a large family Zeinap Daurbekova, who was detained by power agents on April 8, is at large. As reported by her relatives, yesterday, on April 11, employees of the FSB handed Zeinap over to local militiamen, and the latter brought her home.

The Rome-Catholic Church in Sochi held, at plenty of parishioners present, a requiem service on the Poles who perished in the air crash near Smolensk. Members of the Polish Diaspora in Sochi plan to start a book of condolences, to be sent later to the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Russia.

Russian federal and regional authorities plan to react as toughly as possible to terror acts in Moscow, while suicide bombers continue their self-destructive actions; ECtHR passes new decisions on kidnapping cases, however, disappearances of locals continue in Chechnya, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of April 5-11, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Tonight in Kabardino-Balkaria an attempt was made on Zuber Shukaev, head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). He died a bit later in hospital.

The number of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan has reduced from 12 to 2 thousand persons, as reported by Ali Gasanov, Chairman of the State Committee on Work with Refugees and Forced Migrants.

Zviad Dzidziguri, leader of the Conservative Party of Georgia, has won the preliminary election (primaries) as the united candidate from the inter-partisan oppositional association "National Council of Georgia".

On April 9, Makhmud, Ali and Berd – brothers of the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev – were summoned for interrogation to the MIA of the republic as suspects in the case about beating of Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov. After interrogation, they signed recognizance not to leave till the end of the investigation.

Lawyer Sergey Kvasov was beaten in central Makhachkala on April 9 by five unidentified persons in masks. He is still unconscious and kept in the resuscitation ward.

April 16 is one year from the date of cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which was introduced in the territory of the Chechen Republic back in 1999. This anniversary will be marked in the region as a national holiday.

An application has arrived to the human rights organization "Mashr" and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" from Ashet Daurbekova, a resident of Plievo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, about kidnapping of her daughter-in-law, mother of four children.

On April 9, an opening ceremony took place in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, of the monument to victims of terror. As noted by the well-known sculptor Mikhail Shemyakin, author of the monument, his work is first of all dedicated to the victims of the terror act in Beslan.