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During four days of competitions at the European Wrestling Championships in Kaspiysk, 150 people addressed doctors for help, despite official statements of no incidents. Most injured people are mostly athletes, but there are also spectators, the Ministry for Public Health reports, describing a case of a fan diagnosed with a heart attack.

On May 3-4, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire regime 95 times in various directions of the front, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports. Meanwhile, large-calibre machine guns were used in shelling, the Azerbaijani MoD's website reports.

The terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia has called on its supporters to commit terror acts during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which matches will take place in the cities of Southern Russia.

The Museum of Military History "Barbashovo Pole", named after Pyotr Barbashov, a Hero of the Soviet Union, was created in the venue of bloody battles near Vladikavkaz, which began the counteroffensive operation of Soviet troops in Northern Caucasus during WW II.

The authorities of South Ossetia have detained a 22-year-old resident of Tbilisi, Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, the Georgian Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality, has stated. The young man had illegally crossed the border of South Ossetia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

Today, OSCE observers have conducted monitoring of the contact line of the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan and did not record any ceasefire violations. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Today, Nikol Pashinyan has gathered signatures of one third of the MPs necessary for nomination to the post of the Prime Ministers of Armenia.

The policeman wounded at detention of the bank robber in Yerevan has died in hospital. The armed man detained for raiding the bank turned out to be a Police Colonel Daniel Danielyan.

Today, in Yerevan, the police have detained a man who has wounded two persons and killed another one during a bank robbery.

Today, a truck has come under fire in the Karabakh conflict zone. The truck was transporting Azerbaijani meliorators who arrived to repair an artesian well in the village of Chemenli, the authorities of the Agdam District report. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh rejected accusations of shelling civilians.

On May 2, Arthur Alexanyan, a member of the Armenian national team, won the gold medal of the European Championship in Dagestan.

The terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia claimed responsibility for a man's attack on policemen in the Stavropol Territory. This was reported by the NGO "SITE Intelligence Group" with reference to the agency "Amaq" affiliated with the IS.

Difficulties with the passage to the "Zvartnots" airport due to the blockage of roads slightly depressed trips to Armenia, Russian tourists say. Meanwhile, many of them note they understand the situation and support protesters.

Life sentences to Russian women-citizens have been appealed against, the Russian Consulate in Iraq has reported. Severe sentence to women accused in Iraq of ties to the "Islamic State" (IS) have acquired a mass character, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has stated.

Protests are suspended to allow the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) time to guarantee the support of the candidate for Premiership from the opposition, said Nikol Pashinyan.

Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", is one of the five finalists of the Boris Nemtsov Award for courage in defending democratic values in Russia.

Armen Amiryan, the head of the Ministry of Culture of Armenia, has announced to the protesters, who demanded from him to come to a rally against the ruling party, that he is leaving his post. This is reported by the website of the "Aysor.am".

Trucks with food cannot arrive in Armenia because of roads, blocked by protesters, the State Revenue Committee has stated.

On May 1, on the air of the Chechen TV, relatives of Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who hided in Poland from persecution, urged him to stop criticizing the Chechen authorities and return to Russia. Local residents remembered cases of persecution of other dissidents in Chechnya.

Today, the "Elk", "Tsarukyan" and ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" factions of the National Assembly of Armenia have boycotted the parliamentary session. It is postponed because of lack of quorum.