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According to the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", the stagnation in Azerbaijani relations with the West is the reason of President Ilham Aliev's absence at the summit of the "Eastern Partnership" (EaP), organized by the European Union (EU).

Veniamin Kondratiev, the Acting Governor of Kuban, has offered Roman Arkhipov, the head of the Novokubansk District, to resign voluntarily. Roman Arkhipov has been involved in the case of abuse of power.

Police Colonel Vladimir Alai has been appointed the chief of the Temporary Operational Group of Agencies and Units (known as VOGOiP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Northern Caucasus. He took the place left vacant after Igor Romashkin had been promoted to the post of the Minister of Internal Affairs for Kabardino-Balkaria.

This morning, in Grozny, electricity and water supply has been interrupted, city residents report. Energy companies have explained the interruptions in supply of electricity by scheduled activities.

Today, at the first meeting of the National Assembly of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) of the sixth convocation, Ashot Gulyan has been elected the Chairman of the National Assembly by majority of votes.

Today, the Budyonnovsk City Court will continue considering the case of Lyudmila Bogatenkova, the head of the "Prikumye Mothers" Committee, accused of a fraud. At the previous session, the court questioned several witnesses for the prosecution and defence, and listened to the information of Sergey Krivenko, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC).

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has initiated a criminal case against the top managers of the "Dagenergobank", which is suspected of falsifying financial statements.

The criminal cases opened on the massacre of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri in Armenia and Russia should be combined, advocates of the family successors assert. According to Gevorg Kostanyan, the General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, the parties are now settling the issue.

In Dagestan, relatives of Zamir Pashaev, a missing resident of Derbent, have addressed their application to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" asking to help them to establish his whereabouts. They stated that they believed he was kidnapped. The Derbent ROVD (District Interior Division) said that they were looking for Pashaev.

Nuridin Magomedov, a resident of the city of Izberbash, who was killed by return fire during a shootout with law enforcers, was known to operative agents as a militants' helper.

A session of the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, which is considering the case of ex-Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, has been postponed until May 21. The petition of his advocate Lukyan Khasabyan to challenge the membership of the court was rejected.

Zaurbek Sadakhanov, an advocate of Djambulat Dadaev's family, has lodged a complaint against an official's actions in response to the application to present for reviewing the materials of the cancelled criminal case about a special operation conducted in Grozny.

The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) reduced by six months the sentence to Zelimkhan Shapaev, a resident of the Astrakhan Region, convicted for recruiting mercenaries to Syria.

A school teacher of the school in Kutulskoe village and an unemployed local resident have been detained by law enforcers in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) zone in the Kurakh District of Dagestan.

Today, in the village of Tsebari of the Tsuntin District of Dagestan, several hundred people have attended the funeral of the policeman murdered on the Makhachkala-Buynaksk road.

Today, according to local residents, the waters of the Terek River have once again changed their colour. The Terek River got the reddish hue because of lilac water discharged to the river from a pipe not far from the Krasnogvardeisky Bridge. During May, this is at least the third case of pollution of the Terek River.

In Dagestan, investigators have launched a criminal investigation into the case of the armed attack on law enforcers in Izberbash, as a result of which the attacker was killed. He was identified as Nuritdin Magomedov.

One of the victims affected by the explosion of a mine in the vicinity of Tskhinvali died. The second victim is under the supervision of doctors.

In Vienna, the song contest "Eurovision" has determined its first finalists. Of 16 countries, only 10, including Armenia, Georgia, and Russia, will be presented in the next phase of the song contest.

In the Dagestani town of Buynaksk, all the mosque-goers detained on May 18 have been released from the GOVD (City Interior Division) at night of May 19.