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Most of mass media in Armenia are controlled by the authorities and used as instruments of informational influence on the society. Cases of violence against journalists are investigated reluctantly and fail to reach the courts, said public and media activists in the debate on the status of mass media in Armenia.

The case against a Karabakh soldier Arsen Bagdasaryan was fabricated in revenge for the trial of two Azerbaijani subversives, said Yuri Airapetyan, the Ombudsman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

Today, the lawyer Zaurbek Sadakhanov, who represents the interests of the family of Djambulat Dadaev, has turned to the Chief Investigating Department (CID) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) demanding to acquaint him with the materials of the criminal case, which was initiated on the special operation conducted in Grozny, but then cancelled by Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the ICRF.

The President of Georgia has presented a new staff of the Government for the approval of the Parliament; now, the sitting date of the extraordinary session of the Parliament is defined.

The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has treated the decision of Armenian authorities to release the activists of the "Constituent Parliament” as a right step.

The awarding in absentia of Barbara Goldsmith Award to the arrested Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova was held in New York on May 5.

In Azerbaijan, Rasul Jafarov's advocates have filed an appeal against his conviction, asking to acquit the rights defender.

The Baku Court of Grave Crimes has convicted Faraj Kerimli, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, accused of illegal drug dealing.

Two girls, who spent 10 days in the detention centre of the Department for Novorossiysk of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) after dancing at the Memorial "Malaya Zemlya" (Minor Land) in that city, have been released.

The absence of a duly qualified medic, violations of catering and storage of drugs were revealed by the prosecutor's office at the inter-district temporary detention facility (known as IVS) located in the city of Prokhladny in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

The defence of relatives of Djambulat Dadaev, who was killed by agents of Stavropol police in Grozny, intends to seek the opening of a criminal case against the operative agents, who performed the special operation in the capital of Chechnya, said the lawyer Zaurbek Sadakhanov.

The US State Department has announced a reward for any information about Tarkhan Batirashvili (Umar al-Shishani), a field commander of the "Islamic State" (IS), which was declared a terrorist organization.

Representatives of all the seven parties, which ran for parliamentary seats in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", have stated their recognition of the election outcomes and have no plans to challenge them.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan has launched an investigation into the resonant incident with damage to private cars in Makhachkala. According to eyewitnesses, bodyguards of Ramazan Abdulatipov were involved in the incident.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijani has issued a warning to journalist Tural Mustafaev, who withdrew his complaint against journalist Khadija Ismayilova. Tural Mustafaev claimed being subjected to pressure by investigators and announced his intention to seek asylum in the EU and the United States.

The court has found Vitaly Pronin, a former juror in the case of the murder of Colonel Yuri Budanov, guilty of obstructing justice and immediately amnestied the defendant.

Idilkhan Batirashvili, a cousin of Tarkhan Batirashvili, also known as Umar al-Shishani, a field commander of the organization "Islamic State" recognized as terrorist, has refused to confirm the information about his murder.

The dismissals of the leaders of the Department for Novorossiysk of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) after a road traffic accident in Anapa is not directly connected with the transfer to Moscow of Alexander Tkachov, the former Governor of the Krasnodar Territory.

At the site allocated for the construction of the "Veduchi" ski resort in the mountainous Itum-Kale District of Chechnya, combat engineers have cleared more than 120 hectares of the territory of explosive devices.

The city of Stavropol has hosted the opening ceremony of the memorial mural entitled "We Have Won!", consisting of photos of natives of the Stavropol Territory, who fought in the Great Patriotic War.