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The jury has found Bekkhan Rizvanov, the defendant in the case of the fight near the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeisky" (European) in Moscow, guilty of attempted murder and not deserving of leniency.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of Tsarnaev brothers, will be detained by the police in case if she arrives in the USA to attend the trial against her survived son. Today, the authorities of the country have issued a warrant for her arrest.

One of the possible reasons for decrease in the number of casualties of the conflict in North Caucasus was the change in the tactics of the armed underground. Militants quitted organizing terror acts in crowded places and started committing point attacks on representatives of law enforcement agencies and authorities. This was stated by political analyst Emil Panin.

Two soldiers from the military units of the Ministry of Defence of Russia, who were wounded in the evening of April 21 as a result of landmine explosion in the mountainous Shatoi District of Chechnya, are still in the hospital. The condition of one of them is estimated as grave.

Terror act in Boston, where Chechen natives are suspected as organizers; adoption of the law to elect head of Dagestan by the parliament; confrontation of power agents at the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya; hunger strike of life convicts in Azerbaijan; transfer to the Alabin District Court of the Krasnodar Territory of the case on Krymsk flood; resignation and reinstatement of Volgograd Mayor, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of April 15-21, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The 5th Caucasian Forum, due to take place in Makhachkala on April 21-23, 2013, has been postponed at the request of the Dagestani authorities and public organizations, as Kheda Saratova, a member of the board of the United Caucasus Forum, told the "Caucasian Knot".

In Chechnya, the verdict has been upheld against Aksana Dashkaeva, a 42-year-old resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was sentenced earlier by one of the Grozny District Courts to ten years of imprisonment in a general security colony for kidnapping and attempted sale of an eight-month baby.

The brothers Johar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suspected of organizing a terror act in Boston on April 15 that killed three people, were not the adherents of radical Islam, said their mother Zubeydat Tsarnaeva, and their uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev and their aunt Maret Tsarnaeva.

On April 18, in Ingushetia, search of Dokku Umarov was continued, but because of the actions of the Ingush party the secret special operation to capture him was disrupted, said a high-ranking law enforcement official of Chechnya.