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Members of the Anapa District Cossack Society tried to stop a brawl in the city airport, Cossacks assert. According to preliminary data, six supporters of the Fund to Fight Corruption (FFC) suffered; one of them was hospitalized.

Alexei Volchenko, the head of the initiative group of Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) farmers, is charged with disobeying the police. This was stated by the activist himself, who has linked his detention with the plans to hold a rally in the village of Kazanskaya, Kavkazian District, which the oppositional leader Alexei Navalny had planned to visit.

A delegation from Dagestan has visited the Chechen village of Kenkhi on the order of Ramazan Abdulatipov, the leader of the republic; no violations of villagers' rights were fixed, the Dagestani leadership has stated. The head of Dagestan instructed his subordinates to study a possibility of providing temporary housing to Djalaldinov's family, which has left Chechnya.

The number of signatories to the appeal of a resident of Yerevan to the organizers of the "Eurovision-2016" song contest demanding to revise the outcomes of the contest has increased within six hours from 68,551 to 250,173.

The court has sentenced a resident of the Urvan District to seven years in colony, finding him guilty of links with militants and illegal possession of ammunition and narcotic drugs.

A joint research team of the Centre for Regional and Urban Studies and the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy has started polling Dagestani Muslims on "Values of Dagestani population". The questionnaire intended to study Dagestani Muslim communities may be found on the "Caucasian Knot".

The Presnya Court in Moscow has ruled to arrest 12 people in the case of a brawl in the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow, suspected of murder, illegal possession of weapons and hooliganism. They refused to plead guilty and testify. 22 participants of the brawl have been sentenced to administrative arrest for 15 days.

The organizers of the Moscow action in memory of the Circassians-victims of the Caucasian War have twice received refusals to sanction the action on May 21. Experts believe that these officials' actions are associated with another attempt to silence the consequences of the Caucasian War.

As a result of shelling from the Azerbaijani side, Khachatur Arutyunyan, a soldier of the Defence Army, was killed. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has condemned the arrest of Ibragimov and Mamedov, who were detained after the appearance of graffiti on the monument to Geidar Aliev in Baku.

The church service performed by Patriarch Kirill in Nalchik was attended by Orthodox believers and Muslims. Residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have treated the pastoral visit of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church a significant event for the nations of the republic.

In Derbent, investigators have reported on discovery of the body of only one militant at the place of the special operation. According to Dagestani journalists, the actions of the police chiefs during the special operation show a lack of experience and a possible desire to receive a reward for the capture of the killers of Gadjiakhmed Kaziakhmedov.

The Chechen village of Kenkhi in the Sharoi District, the home of Ramazan Djalaldinov, who complained to the Russian President, is being cordoned off by law enforcers since May 14, local residents report. According to them, the law enforcers demand from the villagers to reveal the whereabouts of Ramazan Djalaldinov.

Natives of Northern Caucasus, who have fallen under the influence of Moscow criminal leaders, are involved in the conflict as ordinary "foot soldiers". This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

There is nothing illegal in the circumstances of resignation of Magomed Karataev, the head of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President.

Igor Stenin, the head of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", has been found guilty of public calls to extremism, and sentenced to two years in a colony-settlement. He intends to appeal against the verdict.

The basic versions of the fires in the village of Kenkhi, Sharoi District, belonging to Ramazan Djalaldinov's family, are an arson and poor electric wiring, said the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya.

In Sochi, visually impaired persons held a meeting. They expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that they asked the city authorities to allocate a room for them, but it was obtained by a local MP. The Sochi Association for Visually Impaired needs new room in connection with the increase in the number of its members.

The policemen wounded during a special operation in Derbent, have been transferred from the city hospital into the medical unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Makhachkala. The health condition of three of the 15 hospitalized patients is estimated as grave.

Victory Day celebrations; participation of singers from South-Caucasian countries in the "Eurovision-2016" song contest; special operation in Derbent after the murder of 82-year-old Gadjiakhmed Kaziakhmedov; ECtHR judgment in the case of abduction of Chechen woman in 2009; attack on a checkpoint in Chechnya and burning down of attackers' houses and the house of Ramazan Djalaldinov, who had raised corruption issues; start of NATO military exercises in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 9-15, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".