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The ladies-journalists from the Buryatia-based newspaper "Svobodnoye Slovo" (Free Word), accused of kindling enmity to Russian power agencies in their materials about the 1944 deportation of Caucasian nations, sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Terror acts of suicide-bombers in Moscow and Northern Caucasus cause tough reaction of the Kremlin and give rise to fears of Caucasian phobia outbreak; Mayor of capital of Kalmykia convicted conditionally, another person takes his place; court session on attack on Nalchik disrupted; Georgia releases several detainees, and South Ossetia agrees to Geneva discussions, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of March 29-April 4, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On April 5, the Nasimin District Court of Baku refused to satisfy the claim lodged by Elmin Badalov, dismissed from his 4th year at the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA), against the Academy bosses.

Grigory Martynov also told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the recent operation of the FSB in Zalesovo village of the Altai Territory.

On April 5, the Sovietskiy District Court of Krasnodar sentenced Vladislav Gmyrya and Pavel Vetrov, the organizer and one of the members of the extremist group named "Pit Bull" to 6 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.

Two girls-believers were detained in the course of their religious service in the city of Novoanninskiy, Volgograd Region, and brought to the local OVD (Interior Division), where their personal things were confiscated; then, searches began in Jehovah's Witnesses' apartments with confiscation of property and money - searches were conducted without witnesses and protocols. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Grigory Martynov, representative of the press service of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

After the terror acts in Moscow metro on March 29, the Russian society started discussing the idea of punishing terrorists' parents. Supporters of this idea believe that the family shall be responsible for the acts of its member, while opponents are sure that innocent persons shall not be punished.

The explosion at the Lubyanka metro station on March 29 was triggered by Mariam Sharipova, born in 1982, a native of Dagestan and a wife of one of the leaders of Dagestan militants. This was reported by the Federal Operative Staff of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The criminal case, initiated by the Investigatory Department (ID) for the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) against the former militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy is stopped.

Now, the video clip, where the leader of North-Caucasian militants Dokku Umarov reported about his involvement in the explosions in Moscow metro on March 29, is not available in the YouTube resource, since, according to Alla Zabrovskaya, PR director of the Google Russia, it was marked and deleted by moderators.

The picket planned by the oppositional "Musavat" Party on April 6 in front of the building of the executive authority of the city of Baku with a demand to ensure the freedom of assembly was reappointed to April 14. This was stated by Arif Gadjily, head of the central office of the "Musavat" Party.

Today, the Zavodskoy District Court of Grozny has treated as extremist the publications about the Chechen Republic in the Big Russian Encyclopaedia and made a decision to confiscate the 58th volume of the edition.

Four law enforcers of the Chechen Republic will face trial for extortion and excess of official powers. A high-ranking militia officer and his three subordinates are accused of illegal detention and extortion of a large sum of money from two local entrepreneurs.