Ulan-Ude/Agency Caucasus – Court in Ulan-Ude will discuss the case against journalists who distributed brochures that describe 23 February as ‘Genocide Festival’.

Beslan/Agency Caucasus – Aneta Gadieva, member of ‘Mothers of Beslan’, said that the meeting on behalf of the survivors of 2004 Beslan tragedy, with president of RF Dmitry Medvedev was canceled at the last moment.

Magas/Agency Caucasus – Yunusbek Yevkurov, president of Ingushetia said that, DNA sapmles did not confirm Umarov’s death, leader of Caucasian Emirate. According to the Yevkurov’s statement, at the moment, there are about 50 members of armed underground goups in Ingushetia.

Moscow/Agency Caucasus – During a protest organized by Russian Civil Union in the center of Moscow on 23 April, participants protested government’s budget policy for North Caucasian republics with slogans like ‘We fed Caucasus enough!’

Sokhum/Agency Caucasus – A new Abkhazian-Russian dictionary was published in Abkhazia.

Magas/Agency Caucasus - Yesterday in the city of Nazran 3 people were abducted by armed and masked men around 14:00 p.m.