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Elena Nadtoka, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chastnaya Lavochka" (Private Shop), has succeeded to achieve the recognition of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that the Russian authorities violated her right to freedom of expression.

The OSCE Minsk Group is to organize the regular monitoring of how the Karabakh conflict is being highlighted in the media of the parties to the conflict. This was stated by Gegam Bagdasaryan, the head of the Stepanakert Press Club.

Ramazan Djalaldinov, who raised the problem of corruption in the Chechen village of Kenkhi, was forced to apologize to Ramzan Kadyrov. This opinion was voiced by rights defender Oleg Orlov and Mikhail Roschin, the researcher of the Caucasus.

The authors of the petition for cancellation of the decision to rename a bridge in Saint Petersburg after Akhmat Kadyrov, the first Chechen President, are going to send it to deputies of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly, the Governor, and the City Toponymy Commission.

Businessmen Suleiman Kerimov and Ziyavudin Magomedov try to appoint their candidates the head of the Makhachkala Commercial Seaport. This opinion was voiced by Dagestani journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

According to the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA), its specialists found a part of a "Grad" missile engine, two artillery missiles of 122 mm calibre, and two missiles of 152 mm calibre.

On May 30, in the criminal case against Sergey Fetisov, accused of a large-scale fraud with land plots of the Adler Cossack Association, the court of Sochi did not start questioning defence witnesses and postponed the court hearing until June 6.

The Taganrog City Court has sentenced Elizaveta Tsvetkova, a local woman, accused of inciting hatred and hostility towards policemen, to one year of corrective labour with the recovery of legal costs.

Svetlana Isaeva, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission (PMC), was detained at the federal checkpoint "Zaterechny" when she was returning from Rostov-on-Don to Dagestan on a scheduled bus. At present, she is released.

Information about consultation of members of the Russian Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) has been sent to the garrisons of Nalchik and Vladikavkaz. On June 3 and 4, rights defenders will discuss with servicemen how the latter can receive their due compensations and benefits.

The appeal of Ramazan Djalaldinov, in which he apologizes to Ramzan Kadyrov, the acting leader of Chechnya, was shown on the air of the Chechen TV. Ramazan Djalaldinov has returned to Chechnya, reports the administration of the village of Kenkhi.

Alexander Sokurov, the film director and the People's Artist of Russia, and well-known actor Oleg Basilashvili have spoken against the idea to name a bridge in Saint Petersburg after Akhmat Kadyrov.

The Russian institutions of higher education have launched the process to arrange departments on ethnopolitical science, and the need for specialists in the sphere is getting higher. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

A Chechen officer Ruslan Mukhudinov, accused of organizing the murder of Boris Nemtsov, is very likely in the territory of Chechnya, said Vadim Prokhorov, the advocate of the Nemtsov family, in his comment on the Interpol's consent to declare Mukhudinov wanted. He is sceptical about the chances to detain Mukhudinov.

According to the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (known as BMI), since the second half of 2015, the country faces an increase in the influx of migrants from Russia, the vast majority of which are natives of Chechnya. Since 2013, this is the second burst in the number of Chechen natives applying for refugee status in Germany.

Killings during special operations in Ingushetia can be equated to "extrajudicial executions." This was stated by Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the human rights organization "Mashr". He has called on Ingush citizens not to rise to provocations and not to unleash bloodshed.

Suren Mosiyan, a soldier of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has died at his combat position. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the NKR.

The national factor is not the determining one in the situation with Ramazan Djalaldinov, an Avar, a resident of the Chechen village of Kenkhi. However, Dagestan authorities have suffered serious image losses in this case, said the participants of the project "Journalists' Games".

The team of the Makhachkala Commercial Seaport has resumed working after the rally and the related call voiced by the port managers. The workers protested against the appointment of a new port director. According to them, they resumed their work with the hope that the problem would be solved within a week.

Pardoning of Nadezhda Savchenko and her returning to Ukraine; release of journalist Khadija Ismayilova from prison in Azerbaijan; sentencing in the criminal case of mass fight in the hospital of Mineralnye Vody; special operation in Ingushetia, which resulted in killing of five suspected militants; court decision in the criminal case against Ukrainian citizens Klykh and Karpyuk accused of killing soldiers in Chechnya; incident during the Championship of Russia in freestyle wrestling in Yakutsk, resulting in refusal of Dagestani athletes to take part in the tournament, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 23-29, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".