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A policeman from Ingushetia has been detained on suspicion of killing a 32-year resident of the village of Arkhonskaya in North Ossetia. During a search of his house, law enforcers found firearms and the keys to the casualty's car.

On May 16, Nazhud Guchigov, the chief of the ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, and 17-year-old Kheda (Louiza) Goylabieva are to get married. This was reported by Kheda Saratova, the head of the independent news agency "Objective".

Advocate has failed to visit Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), who is serving his prison sentence in a penal colony in Azerbaijan. According to the advocate, the activist has been placed into dungeon for seven days.

In the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, a body of a man was found in a burnt-out car. The man used to be engaged in an off-hour work as a private taxi driver.

Former employees of the "Nairit" plant demand to resume the operation of the enterprise and intend to continue their protest until the government of Armenia will perform its obligations on repayment of wage arrears.

In Dagestan, Magomed and Khaskil Yakubov, sons of the head of the administration of Balakhani village of the Untsukul District, are suspected of arms trafficking. According to the court's decision, they are taken into custody until June 7.

Elena Milashina, the author of the materials about the impending wedding of the head of the Nozhai-Yurt ROVD (District Interior Division) in Chechnya to a 17-year-old girl, decided to leave the republic, after she learned that she was looked for by Chechen power agents, said Olga Bobrova, a Milashina's colleague.

Two persons have joined the endless hunger strike demanding release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan; and now there are eight hunger-strikers.

The forensic medical and genetic examinations have proved that the members of the Avetisyan family, massacred in Gyumri, tried to repel the killer, the advocates of the family's successors have stated today.

On May 14, the Nasimi District Court of Baku extended for other three months, until August 24, the arrest of the investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova.

In Azerbaijan, the court has convicted Murad Adilov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), and sentenced him to 6 years in a general-security colony.

In Sochi, Oleg Rubezhansky, an editor of the newspaper "Mestnaya" (Local), has died of heart failure at the age of 57 after a long illness. The newspaper's activities have been stopped. Activists of the Sochi community call Oleg Rubezhansky one of the main critics of the authorities.

Alibek Delimkhanov, the commander of the 141st motorized regiment of internal troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs deployed in Chechnya, has been promoted to a new position.

The international film festival "Golden Apricot" has initiated demonstration of films on the topic of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923. The films on the topic have been shown in six countries in the framework of international festivals. The programme dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was called "Never Again".

In Sochi, Lyudmila Savelieva has filed a complaint to the police about the falsification of evidence in the civil case to evict her family from an empty cottage in the village for the Olympic settlers

On May 13, the Council of Europe (CE) declared illegal the treaty on alliance and strategic partnership between Russia and Abkhazia and the treaty on alliance and integration between Russia and South Ossetia. Besides, according to the CE, those treaties were signed in violation of international law.

In Rostov-on-Don, the court has sentenced to freedom restriction a local resident, who was found guilty of false report about a bomb in a hypermarket.

Employees of the Drug Control Service for Dagestan have rescued citizen of Belarus from his two-year-long labour captivity.

A Sochi resident Ekaterina Kharebava, convicted on charges of spying for Georgia, is a political prisoner and should be released immediately, says the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

At the trial held in Rostov-on-Don of the ex-Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, the prosecutor claimed that the motive for Amirov's actions was his desire to put his nephew Yusup Djaparov into the administration of Kaspiysk. At the session on May 12, the prosecutor said the "land issue" was behind the terror act committed on April 2, 2011, in the "Moskva" Shopping Centre in Kaspiysk.