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Hail and heavy rain have destroyed crops in the villages of Varkhani and Untsa in the Adigeni District of the Samtskhe-Javakheti Region of Georgia, said Akaki Michutadze, the governor of the region.

During the week of May 23-29, 2016, eight persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Recently, during a shootout in Dagestan, law enforcers killed Abutdin Khanmagomedov, the suspected leader of a group of militants, sworn allegiance to the "Islamic State" (IS), and his accomplice Radjab Ismailov. This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies.

A militant was killed in the Derbent District; another member of the armed underground is chased, said a Dagestani law enforcement source.

The appeals against the verdict of the first-instance court were submitted both by the defendants and the parents of the journalist assassinated in Azerbaijan. The preliminary session of the Court of Appeal (CoA) has rejected the motion on reconsideration of the case; the examination of the merits is scheduled for June 10.

The murder of a citizen of Georgia Giga Otkhozoriya in the Zugdidi District was the main topic of the meeting of the authorities of Georgia and Abkhazia, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the press service of the Monitoring Mission of the European Union (MMEU) in Georgia.

The citizens of Ukraine Stanislav Klykh and Nikolai Karpyuk, convicted in Chechnya, should be delivered from Russia after Nadezhda Savchenko, believe the Russian and Ukrainian rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". However, they fear that Ukraine has not enough well-known Russian prisoners, who could be exchanged for them.

Members of the commission set up under the administration of the Krasnodar Territory were offered to sign a document stating the good reasons for selling the houses of the Olympic legacy. At least three members of the commission decided not to sign the document, insisting that it should reflect the information about those responsible for the poor state of the houses.

A group of five residents of the South-Georgian Region of Samtskhe-Javakheti have delivered to the police over three kilograms of explosives and four thousand rounds of ammunition, as well as eight firearms and 75 grenades. All the five men were released from liability for their co-operation with law enforcers.

Over the past 24 hours, Armenian troops have violated the ceasefire for 26 times at the various directions of the frontline by shelling Azerbaijani positions from large-calibre weapons, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

Ramazan Abdulatipov has called on the Dagestani team in freestyle wrestling to continue participation in the championships of Russia. However, the athletes continue protesting against the unfair, in their opinion, refereeing.

Yerevan has hosted a presentation of the photo album "Road to Victory" by Ashot Muradyan, published in three languages and dedicated to the 28th anniversary of the Karabakh movement and the 25th anniversary of Armenia's independence, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The outcomes of the intraparty voting (the so-called primaries) of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) were predefined by the influence of the administrative resource, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, policemen have detained Anar Abdullah, an activist of the Azerbaijani "Nida" movement. He was taken to the 18th station of the Narimanov District Police Office. According to "Nida" movement, this is the fifth activist of the movement, detained in Azerbaijan over the past 18 days.

Relatives of all the residents of Ingushetia, killed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) on May 26 have received their bodies from the morgue, the republic's Security Council has stated.

Kamaludin Djakhbarov, a resident of Dagestan, disappeared on May 25; while the whereabouts of his brother Shamil Djakhbarov is unknown for more than a month, brothers' relatives told rights defenders. They fear that the brothers could be kidnapped by power agents.

At the today's session of the court, which is considering the murder of the Armenian family by a Russian serviceman Valery Permyakov, the advocate of successors of the Avetisyan family has petitioned for lodging a civil lawsuit against the Russian Federation, which should bear, according to the claimants, responsibility for the mistakes of the command of the military base, which had led to the tragedy.

The attackers in Chechnya of Igor Kalyapin, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), will not be prosecuted. This is the opinion of Igor Kalyapin himself, supported by Varvara Pakhomenko, an analyst at the International Crisis Group (ICG).

Employees of the human rights organization "Legal Initiative" have reported about another beating up of Ayub Tuntuev, convicted for a terror act in Chechnya, in the colony located in the city of Vladimir.

According to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Russian authorities are obliged to pay 70,000 euros to the family of the citizen of Georgia Manana Djabeliya, who died in a Moscow detention centre for foreign nationals in 2006, the advocate of the Djabeliya family has announced today.