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Power agents of the Chechen Republic are carrying out large-scale actions against drivers illegally using special signals. Local drivers believe that, as before, the campaign will bring little fruit.

In the course of the week from April 18 to April 24 at least 19 persons were killed and at least 7 more wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" on the basis of its own materials and information from other open sources.

A new session of the Moscow City Court on the criminal case of slander initiated against Oleg Orlov, Head of "Memorial" Human Rights Center in connection with his statement about the responsibility of Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov for the murder of member of HRC "Memorial" Natalia Estemirova passed off on April, 28. Head of Chechnya bore witness via visual communication channel while we was in the office of the Supreme Court of Chechnya.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has revealed facts of illegal overpricing of medicines in pharmacies. Administrative cases have been initiated against the owners of two pharmacies.

Today, the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov answered - by means of the video conference - the questions of the magistrate court of the Khamovniki District of Moscow and stated that the words of the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" Oleg Orlov about of his guilt in the murder of rights defender Estemirova had tarnished his honour and dignity. Kadyrov said that he wanted to have Orlov criminally prosecuted.

The Investigatory Department for North Ossetia of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation) has charged an alleged member of the grouping of Chechen field commander Arbi Baraev of committing grave and especially grave crimes.

On April, 26, an action devoted to memory of the victims of radiation accidents and catastrophes with participation of about 300 people timed to the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster passed off in Grozny.

The last decade in Chechnya was "presented" to illegal armed formations (IAFs), believes Ruslan Martagov, a Chechen political analyst. Liudmila Alekseeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, believes that people in Chechnya are still fearful.

Investigators have completed their inquiry into the killing of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club, which was committed at night on December 6 in Moscow. This was reported by Vadim Yakovenko, Acting Head of the Investigatory Department for Moscow of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), who added that there are five figurants in the case.

The Migration Service of Norway continues passing unlawful refusals to refugees from Chechnya. This was reported by defender Ahmed Gisaev who lives in Norway.

The City Court of Temirtau, Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan, has sentenced four men to various terms of imprisonment for propaganda of terrorism and inciting religious hatred, because they had discussed the lectures and watched video appeals of Said Buryatskiy, militants' ideologist, who was later liquidated in Ingushetia, and Dokku Umarov, leader of the so-called "Imarat Kavkaz".

Salyakh Isaev, a former employee of the regional charitable public organization (RCPO) "Let's Save Generation", has been arrested in Norway. He is prepared for expulsion; and in the morning on April 27 he will be sent back into Chechnya. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by rights defender Ahmed Gisaev.