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Today, David Taziashvili and Akaki Bolotashvili, residents of the village of Zaridaantkari of the Gori District, and Yuri Kedikoshvili, a resident of Gori, have been detained near the South-Ossetian border. Mikhail Gakheladze was detained in the Kaspi District.

The body of Gadjiakhmed Kaziakhmedov, the father of the former Mayor of Derbent Felix Kaziakhmedov, with gunshot wounds was found in his house, said local law enforcement sources, adding that the 82-year-old Gadjiakhmed Kaziakhmedov "was found shot dead in his own house in Derbent."

The military parade in the Chechen capital began 30 minutes later than the scheduled time, while security measures in central Grozny were essentially strengthened. The reason for this was in the morning terror act in the Grozny District of Chechnya.

Chechen law enforcers have identified the militants, who attacked the policemen, who were on duty at the checkpoint in the Grozny District of Chechnya.

In Grozny, the attack on a checkpoint involved an improvised explosive device (IED) of high power. This was reported by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). According to the police, physicians assess the condition of three out of six policemen injured in the attack on the checkpoint near the village of Alkhan-Kala in the Grozny District as extremely severe.

This morning, two armed men have attacked a checkpoint in Grozny. It was initially reported that one of the attackers committed a suicide bombing and as a result, one policeman was killed and four others were wounded. The second attacker was killed by the policemen. Later, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) denied the report about the death of the policeman and reported on six injured policemen.

Armed incidents in Dagestan; search for Adlan Varaev, who disappeared in the mountains of Chechnya; "Rostov" FC in the lead of Russian Football Premier League, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 2-8, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Vasily Kuzmin, an invalid and a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, for more than 15 years lives in unacceptable housing conditions; however, the Mayoralty refuses to put him on the list of the persons in need of improving housing conditions, say his relatives and the head of the local NGO, a lawyer Gayane Kocharyan. The veteran himself complains that officials remember about him only on the Victory Day, but render no real help.

Baku accumulates armed forces in Nakhichevan with the aim to involve Turkey into conflict with Armenia. This opinion was voiced by Armenian experts. However, according to them, Turkey is expected to provide only indirect support, since NATO will keep the country from direct intervention in the conflict.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has started to consider the complaint filed by Adilgerei Omarov, an advocate from Khasavyurt, against law enforcers, who searched his house in 2008. This was reported by an advocate representing the interests of the Omarov family.

During the week of May 2-8, 2016, at least four persons fell victim to 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.

An Azerbaijani soldier has been killed in a shootout in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Religious leaders have decided to get into power on the background of mistrust of Dagestani residents to the leaders of the republic. This opinion was voiced in the course of discussion by participants of the project "Games of Journalists". According to the journalists, on the eve of the elections to the Parliament, religious leaders use the "People against Corruption" Party as a springboard.

Investigators do not seek to reveal all the circumstances of fatal injuring of Nikolai Chistyakov, the 72-year-old former chief narcologist of the Stavropol Territory. He was fatally injured as a result of the conflict with a female police officer. This was reported by relatives of the deceased doctor.

In Azerbaijan, unidentified persons intimidate members of the electoral headquarters of Igbal Agazade, the leader of the "Umid" (Hope) Party. According to members of the Party, threats are also voiced against voters of the 90th Agdash electoral precinct, in which Igbal Agazade was nominated.

Azerbaijan accumulates military vehicles in Nakhichevan. This was reported to journalists in Yerevan by Koryun Nagapetyan, Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence, National Security and Internal Affairs.

The investigators dealing with the case of Mardiros Demerchyan, a builder of Olympic facilities in Sochi, have conducted a repeated forensic examination without notifying him and without his participation – a gross violation of the norms of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure, said Alexander Boichenko, a Demerchyan’s advocate.

This morning, in a forest of the Khiv District of Dagestan, a group of policemen was shelled, local law enforcement bodies report.

Vadim Sultanov, an employees of the Centre to Combat Extremism (known as the “E” Centre) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who was killed in 2011, has been was posthumously awarded an order. Sultanov was an honest cop; and his involvement in the "Black Hawks" grouping was false, said his colleagues, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered to repair roads and tower complexes, supply gas and build mosques in the Sharoy District of Chechnya within three months. He announced these plans at a meeting with residents of the village of Kenkhi, one of whom – Ramazan Djalaldinov – had complained to Putin about corruption in the district.