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Today, the participants of the action in support of Karo Pailyan, a Turkish MP, have marched along Yerevan streets with posters: "We are all Karo!" and handed over to the UN office in Yerevan a demand to condemn the attack on Pailyan committed after his speech in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

The Armenia's Ministries of Defence (MoD) and Foreign Affairs (MFA) have denied the statement of the Azerbaijani MFA about the use of prohibited ammunition by Armenian militaries.

The verdict against Sergey Litvinov, sentenced in the Rostov Region in the criminal case of robbery, was based on contradictory evidence. There are reasons to believe that a citizen of Ukraine was subjected to torture, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" states.

In Grozny, the houses of Shamil Djanaraliev and Akhmed Inalov who attacked a police checkpoint were burnt down, the "Life.ru" quotes a female relative of Shamil Djanaraliev as reporting. Till present, the information has not been officially confirmed.

Last night, the Azerbaijani armed forces were shelling the contact line from mortar and grenade launchers. This has been reported today by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

40 people affected by the terror act at the "Domodedovo" Airport have filed civil lawsuits against the former top managers of the "Domodedovo" Airport and its co-owner. This was reported on May 10 by advocate Igor Trunov, representing the interests of the victims.

Residents of Rostov-on-Don have demanded to abolish the existing order of election of the City Mayor and to terminate the contract with Sergey Gorban, the current head of the local administration.

According to a court decision, Aubrey Michelle Allen, a citizen of the United States, who arrived in North Ossetia to visit her fiancé, is to be deported from Russia for violation of the order of staying in the country.

On May 10, 89-year-old Nina Ivanovna Kurilo, a former underage prisoner of Nazi concentration camps and the widow of a war veteran, received a refusal to her request to grant her an apartment in a social house for veterans and disabled people. According to the woman, she cannot live in an old ramshackle house without sewage system, where the water supply is constantly switched off.

A video record has been promulgated that shows two armed men suspected of killing Gadjiakhmed Kaziakhmedov, the father of the former Mayor of Derbent Felix Kaziakhmedov. The fact that they held pistols with silencers in their hands indicates that they were hardly ordinary robbers, said one of the friends of the casualty’s family.

On May 9, the monument to Joseph Stalin in the form of a bust was opened in the village of Ozrek of the Lesken District of Kabardino-Balkaria. Residents of the republic interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have expressed different opinions on the occasion of the initiative. Many of the people considered the initiative to by symptomatic for the situation in the country.

The cases of the four Georgian citizens, detained on the border with South Ossetia and placed in the Tskhinvali SIZO (pre-trial prison), will be considered only on May 11, as May 9 and 10 are days-off in South Ossetia.

The owners of peasant farms and individual entrepreneurs, who refuse to take part in the agrarian census-2016, will be fined, said the Ministry of Agriculture of Dagestan.

The updated list of the "Panamanian offshore companies" contains 37 individuals and legal entities affiliated with Armenia. This indicates a lack of state control in the country, says Vardan Bostanjyan, an economist and a former MP.

In April, in the course of demining, in the total area of 7,412,514 square meters, 1722 units of unexploded ordnance and landmines were detected and neutralized, said the National Agency for Demining Azerbaijani Territories (known as ANAMA).

The Kazbek District Court has fined a Leninaul villager for posting an image of the "Islamic State” (IS) banned in Russia in a social network.

Today, Chechnya holds mourning ceremonies on the occasion of the Day of Memory and Grief for the nations of the republic, which is marked as a day of national mourning in Chechnya since 2011. A lot of local residents note that they still mark the Day of Memory and Grief on February 23.

Four policemen injured as a result of the explosion at a checkpoint in Grozny continue to receive medical treatment in the hospital. The wounded policemen are being provided with skilled care, and they can be further transported to a hospital in Moscow. This was reported by an official of the Department for Chechnya of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

According to investigators, Gadjiakhmed Kaziakhmedov, the father of Felix Kaziakhmedov, the former Mayor of Derbent, could be murdered by extremists for revenge.

Relatives of Shamil Djanaraliev, who blew himself up at a checkpoint in Grozny on May 9, reported on a search of his house. Law enforcers have also taken away for questioning brothers and a pregnant wife of the suspected suicide bomber, the "Life.ru" reports.