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On May 10, the Adler District Court of Sochi held its next session on the case of the builder Mardiros Demerchyan, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. The court questioned Samvel Pashyan, the former employer of Mardiros Demerchyan.

The body of a four-year-old foster child, whose parents are suspected of kidnapping a three-year-old boy in the Rostov Region, was found in the outskirt of the Yarskoy farmstead of the Volgograd Region, investigators report.

Azerbaijani young people detained in Saint Petersburg after a brawl with their Armenian counterparts at the "Immortal Regiment" march have been released from the police, the Consul General of Azerbaijan said.

A press conference on the problems of former residents of the village of Khrakh-Uba, transferred to Azerbaijan by Russian authorities, was held today at the editorial office of the "Derbent" News Agency, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Today, activist Gagik Mikaelyan, earlier sentenced to three years of imprisonment in the case of the riots in Khorenatsi Street in Yerevan, has been released from custody by the decision of the Armenian Court of Appeal.

In Rostov-on-Don, at the court hearing in the case of plotting of a terror act, the health state of Arthur Panov, a citizen of Ukraine, has deteriorated sharply.

A preliminary investigation into the case against other 14 members of the "Sasna Tsrer" (Daredevils of Sassoun) has been completed. Within the investigation, more than 500 interrogations were carried out, and more than 100 examinations were conducted. On the basis of the court's decisions, investigators got the details of mobile phone calls and secret banking data of the defendants. This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the Special Investigating Service.

The decision to rename Kotrov Street in Makhachkala into Akhmat Kadyrov Street is based on political reasons, including a desire of Dagestani authorities to please the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, who is able to solve serious problems in the Kremlin, believes Magomed Magomedov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" weekly.

Today, Chechnya marks the Peoples' Remembrance and Sorrow Day, established by the leadership of the republic in 2011. However, not all local residents are ready to perceive May 10 as the day of mourning, believing that the leadership has replaced the nationwide mourning for the victims of Stalin's deportation for the mourning for the first president of Chechnya Akhmat Kadyrov.

According to the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the Criminal Code of Georgia does not allow prosecuting the former Mayor of Moscow for visiting Abkhazia and South Ossetia, in connection with the expiry of the period of limitations of the violation of the Law "On the Occupied Territories" committed by Yuri Luzhkov.

Residents of the capital of Chechnya have reported about unprecedented security measures and compulsion to take part in the march of the action "Immortal Regiment".

In Georgia, three persons were detained during an action held near the Parliament building in Tbilisi late in the evening of May 9. The protesters demanded to punish the persons responsible for the incident.

On May 9, all the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) held festivities in honour of the Victory Day.

The flags of Nagorno-Karabakh, brought by Armenian delegations, triggered conflicts at marches of "Immortal Regiment" in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Today, in Karachay-Cherkessia, all cities and districts have held the "Immortal Regiment" action on the occasion of the Victory Day. In Cherkessk, the march was attended by about 14,000 people, reports the administration of the leader of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR).

The marchers from Stepanakert to Shushi, timed to the Victory Day, carried more than 200 photographs of participants of the Great Patriotic War and of the Armenian-Azerbaijani military conflict.

The Strasbourg Court did not find any violations in the case of Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, who filed a complaint about violation in Russia of her right to a fair trial.

Today, starting from 9:00 a.m., Sochi has held the festive events dedicated to the Victory Day, reports the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to the City Mayor's Office, a festive rally held in the Zavokzalny District of Sochi was attended by 3000 people.

This year, in the capital of North Ossetia, according to law enforcers, the number of participants of the action "Immortal Regiment" more than 2.6 times exceeded the number of the last year's action.

In Tskhinvali, the action of the memory "Immortal Regiment" began after the solemn parade and the laying of flowers to the monuments to participants of World War II.