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Khizar Bokov, 24, a resident of Karabulak, who was taken away from his house by power agents on April 21 and released on April 25, is not going to complain of his illegal detention. He is sure, same as his relatives, that for four days he was kept in Division 6 of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) engaged in fighting extremism.

In Grozny, a local resident found an unknown explosive device in the yard of his own house and was heavily wounded when it blew up.

In the near future, a claim will be lodged to the Basmanny Court of Moscow by a child, who remained orphan after the death of his parents in the terror act in Moscow metro on March 29.

Today, Magomed Magomedov, a resident of Mutsalaul village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, has reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that shooting is heard in the vicinity of the village.

Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), continues visiting regions of Northern Caucasus; the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation finds cancellation of juries in "terrorist cases" legal; persecutions of dissidents continue in the south of Russia; Georgia: miners are on strike, while downpours and landslips smash houses; negotiations on Karabakh conflict continue; Armenia suspends ratification of Armenian-Turkish Protocols, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of April 19-25, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said that he would take the investigation of the crime, committed at night on April 21 in Moscow as a result of which Kalmyk student Dolgan Nikeev was killed and his friend Vladimir Sanzhiev was wounded, under his personal supervision, the President's press service reports.

At her press conference on April 23 at the RIA "Novosti", Ella Pamfilova, chairperson of the board at the President of the Russian Federation on promotion of development of civil society institutes and human rights, said that unemployment and corruption in Northern Caucasus are the main causes generating extremism.

On April 25, Khizar Bokov, a resident of Karabulak (Ingushetia), who was taken away from his house by power agents on April 21 to some unknown place, was let off home. Under unofficial data, all this time he was kept at Division 6 for counteracting extremism of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department).

Heavy drenches in the region Mtskheta-Tianeti (Eastern Georgia) have caused landslips and landslides of mountain slopes. Mountain rivers overflowed the banks and flooded a number of villages, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.