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More than 100 people gathered at the protest action in front of the Russian Consulate General in Istanbul in connection with the initiation of the criminal case against Adnan Khuade, an activist from Adygea.

The list of members of the "People Against Corruption" Party in Dagestan suggests that it is supported primarily by religious figures and resources of the Muftiate. This opinion was voiced by journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Ingushetia, members of a secret grouping, associated with the international terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) (banned in Russia), says the information centre of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

On May 20, a new rural gathering held in the village of Kenkhi, local residents have again publicly condemned Ramazan Djalaldinov, who complained to Vladimir Putin about corruption. An appeal was sent to the Russian President on behalf of the villagers. The appeal referred to attempts to foment ethnic hatred in the village of Kenkhi.

The opposition has criticized the statement made by Serzh Sargsyan after the Armenian-Azerbaijani meeting held in Vienna. Oppositionists have called on to return the territories of the buffer zone, lost during the April escalation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Members of the garden partnership (GPS) "Kommunalnik" have addressed the Mayor of Sochi asking to stop the construction of an apartment house, which was launched in the partnership. The division of municipal land control began a check of the GPS.

In Abkhazia, a criminal case has been initiated on the murder of Gigi Otkhozoriya on the border with Georgia. According to investigators, Otkhozoriya was killed in a fight with an Abkhaz border guard after the ban to cross the border.

Giga Otkhozoriya, killed on the border with Georgia, violated the passport regime and threatened an Abkhaz border guard. As a result, the latter was forced to use his service firearms. This was reported by the General Prosecutor of Abkhazia.

The Maikop City Court has refused to consider the motion filed by ecologist Valery Brinikh to waive a public advocate.

The Federal Centre is putting pressure on Imam Yaraliev in order to eliminate his impact on the upcoming elections, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". According to their version, the former Mayor of Derbent is influencing the political situation in Southern Dagestan, which is raising fears in Moscow and Makhachkala.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the arrest of Maxim Panfilov, a resident of the city of Astrakhan, accused of assaulting a policeman during the mass riots in Bolotnaya Square.

The delegation, which was on its way from Turkey to mark the Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Caucasian War, was stopped at the border and had to go back, said Andzor Kabard, a Circassian activist.

Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan, chairing the trial against activist Gevorg Safaryan, has refused to disqualify himself despite the motion filed by advocate Tigran Airapetyan.

Elvira Karaeva, a native of Karachay-Cherkessia, who, according to the "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia, was executed in Syria, had several times married militants. Her husbands, including Alim Zankishiev from Kabardino-Balkaria, perished, while she survived; and it aroused suspicion of the IS.

North Ossetia has sentenced Oleg Dzarakhokhov, accused of shooting people at the funeral in Beslan. The court sentenced him to 19 years in a strict-regime colony.

The National Assembly (Parliament) of Azerbaijan has adopted the Amnesty Act, dated to the Republic's Day, celebrated on May 28. The amnesty will cover over 10,000 people, including 3500 of them, who will be released from jails. Civil society activists state the imperfections of the amnesty, since it has not affected political prisoners.

The Solntsevo Court of Moscow has extended until August 20 the arrest of Patimat Gadjieva, a student from Dagestan, accused of public incitement to terrorism.

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic, which listened how the jury had pronounced the verdict of guilty against Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, extended their detention in custody until August 27. Their defenders intend to challenge the decision and the oncoming verdict against their clients.

The families of the destroyed apartment house in Kosmonavtov Street have challenged at courts the refusal to provide them with a lump-sum material and financial help. The city bureaucrats by their actions had stripped the victims of help, Evgeny Oleinikov, the Director of the "Volgograd Anti-Corruption Committee" asserts.

To preserve the interethnic peace, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) should intensify efforts to educate young people in the history and culture of other nations, and pay due attention to solving the social and economic problems. This was stated at the conference, held on May 19, in Nalchik, in the office of the International Circassian Association (ICA).