On April 28, searches were carried out at the office of the human rights organization “Team Against Torture” in Nizhny Novgorod and at the home addresses of three of its employees. The reason was a criminal case initiated in North Ossetia, which was handled by CPT lawyers.

On April 28, in the Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny, where the trial of the mother of oppositionists Yangulbaevs, Zarema Musaeva, was underway, her defenders demanded that the results of one of the examinations be excluded from the evidence in the case. We were talking about the study of nail sections on which the blood of a police officer who was injured by Musaeva’s attack was allegedly found.

Access to pre-school education for children up to the age of seven is 100 per cent in the Chechen Republic. This was announced by the head of the region Ramzan Kadyrov during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Misostin in Moscow.

Two deminers blew up on the outskirts of the Chechen town of Shali. This is the battalion commander and a rescue bomb from Saint Petersburg, looking for explosive objects along the roads. 
Both servicemen missed the «PMN-1» anti-personnel mine and an explosion occurred. One man was injured in the right arm and foot, while the other suffered multiple abrasions and minor injuries.

This is reported by the Internet edition of «Baz».

The Russian army has withdrawn all equipment from a military base near the village of Medvedevka in northern Crimea.

On April 26, at night, a missile strike was carried out on Nikolaev. 1 dead and 23 injured were reported. As a result of the shelling of Kupyansk, 2 women were killed and 10 people were injured.

Head of Karachaevo-Cherkessia Rashid Temrezov signed a decree declaring May 3 in the region a holiday. This is due to the celebration of the 66th anniversary of the return of the Karachai people to their historical homeland from the places of deportation.

The fourth operative of the police department for the Soviet district of Makhachkala was detained in a case concerning the use of torture against a local resident of Kurban Dalgatov, as a result of which he died. Three staff members were detained in January.

The wife of a Crimean Tatar political prisoner, Lehman Zekeryaev, visited him in Simferopol detention centre. Since his arrest, he has been in a special unit. 
According to his wife, no physical violence was used against Zekeryaev, but he was persuaded to cooperate with the security forces. 

Activist of the "People’s Front of Azerbaijan" party Zamin Salayev went into a coma after a 79-day hunger strike in the remand centre. He came to from an intravenous drip.