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During the week of May 6-12, 2019, no victims to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The forced migrants from North Ossetia, who live in Nazran, told about the workers' attempts to dismantle their barracks. The head of Ingushetia has set up a commission to address migrants' housing problems of immigrants.

More than 12,000 people attended the second festival of the national Karabakh dish of zhengyalov khats (a flat cake stuffed with herbs) in the village of Aterk in the Martakert District of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Participants of the hearings held in Baku reported that in prisons, believers were subjected to torture and inhuman treatment. According to the activists, many political prisoners suffer from serious diseases, but do not receive qualified medical care.

A soldier of an infantry brigade was found dead in the territory of the military field exercise base in Vaziani.

Military parades and "Immortal Regiment" marches dedicated to the Victory Day; start of the Muslim fasting of Ramadan; gas explosions in a multi-storey building in Zheleznovodsk and an apartment building in the Rostov Region village; detention of Ingush activist Ismail Nalgiev in Minsk, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 6-12, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On May 11, Tbilisi hosted a festival of new wines, at which small wineries presented their products. The festival was attended by wine experts and importers from 13 countries.

On the eve of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) Summit in Brussels, the Azerbaijani National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party have drafted the preconditions for a partnership agreement of Azerbaijan with the European Union (EU). They have urged the authorities to release all political prisoners and stop pressing the opposition.

Residents of the city of Jermuk and nearby villages and the activists, who are fighting against exploiting the Amulsar gold deposit, have demanded from Armenian authorities to take their opinion into account when deciding on the gold field.

Some students and state servants have treated their participation in the Victory Day celebrations and the "Immortal Regiment" march in Grozny as compulsory. Experts view the "Immortal Regiment" action in Chechnya as a demonstration of Kadyrov's loyalty to the Russian federal authorities.

On May 5-11, Azerbaijani soldiers fired more than 3500 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated.

The Ingush activist Ismail Nalgiev, whose location after his deportation from Belarus was unknown to his relatives and advocates, was handed over to investigators in Nalchik, the human rights defender, Magomed Mutsolgov, has informed.

Armed people detained two residents of the Kaspi District, the Georgian State Security Service reported. According to eyewitnesses, the detained men were taken away in the direction of Tskhinvali.

Activists seeking the protection status for the former Molokan prayer house in the centre of Baku demanded to seize the building from the owner to prevent the demolition of the house. About 200 people are on duty around the clock. They seek guarantees from the authorities.

In Georgia, in connection with the lack of warders, the administrations of a number of penitentiary institutions rely on informal hierarchies among prisoners and as a result, prisoners at the bottom of the informal hierarchy are left unprotected, the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) reports.

The positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia were subjected to 22 shelling attacks over the past day, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya ordered the Grozny court to accept for consideration the lawsuit initiated by writer Ruslan Zakriev for recognition of the authorship of the script for the US "Avatar" film.

On May 10, Malkhaz Machalikashvili, the father of his son Temirlan, shot dead during a special operation in Pankisi, has spent seven hours at the interrogation in the State Security Service (SSS) of Georgia, after which he was released. The case of preparing a terror act against a Georgian law enforcer is based on an incorrect translation of words from the Chechen language, Malkhaz's relatives assert.

The Mourning and Grief Day of Chechen nations, which is officially celebrated on Akhmat Kadyrov's funeral day, is ignored by residents of the republic.

Azerbaijani border guards do not prevent pilgrims and tourists from visiting the "David Garedja" Monastery Complex, the Georgian Patriarchate has stated today. The commissions of the two countries have agreed to meet on the border demarcation issue.