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Journalist Elena Milashina has become well-known due to her highlighting of the situation with the wedding of the chief of the Nozhai-Yurt ROVD (District Interior Division) and a 17-year-old girl. The calls of the Chechen authorities to prosecute journalist Elena Milashina have no sufficient grounds. This opinion has been expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Dmitry Gudkov, an MP of the State Duma, who initiated a parliamentary investigation into the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, announced he received a letter on refusal to carry out the investigation.

Death sentence passed in the USA to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that caused resonance in Chechnya; wedding of police boss with a minor girl; two-day sit-in of ex-workers of Yerevan "Nairit" Factory; conviction of Rostov activist; oppositionists' hunger strike in Azerbaijan demanding to release political prisoners; start of consideration of Ali Taziev's case in Rostov-on-Don, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 11-17, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Heinrich Böll Foundation has announced the results of the comprehensive study on the status of women in Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Dagestan. Respondents mentioned high rate of unemployment, low wages, and poor quality of health services as their main problems.

According to Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov, during four years, 80 militants voluntarily surrendered to the authorities, and all of them were pardoned. 14 militants are on the wanted list of the republic.

At the "Museum Night", the History Museum of Armenia has presented to the visitors a new exhibition hall "World War I and the Armenian Genocide". It was opened in the framework of events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

According to Russian lawyers, the death sentence imposed on Johar Tsarnaev contradicts the European Convention on Human Rights; however, it can be explained by the peculiarities of the US judicial system and the mentality of US citizens.

In the Suleiman-Stalsky District of Dagestan, a forester was killed by unidentified assailants. Law enforcers are searching for six armed men.

The international organization "Reporters without Borders" (RWB) has appeal to the Azerbaijani authorities with a request to immediately release all arrested journalists and bloggers before the European Games to be held in Baku. The RWB has also called on the European Olympic Committees to speak against the repression against the media in the country.

Residents of Georgia are disappointed with the coalition "Georgian" Dream" and the oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM). This was stated by Georgian political analysts Nodar Kharshiladze and Gela Vasadze, who commented on the survey held by the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

The Cherkessk City Court in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has found Jehovah's Witnesses Andrei Volikov and Dmitry Metelin guilty of distributing extremist literature and fined them by 1000 roubles each. The activists deny that they had spread any extremist literature.

The registration ceremony of the marriage of the 48-year-old Police Colonel Nazhud Guchigov to the 17-year-old Louise Goylabieva was held at the Civil Registry Office (CRO) in Grozny.

On the eve of the European Games to be held in Baku, municipal workers are dismantling, removing, painting over and covering all the stands, billboards and posters bearing portraits of Geidar and Ilham Aliev, as well as banners with their quotations, the townspeople report.

According to Chechen authorities, over 10,000 athletes from 14 regions of Russia, as well as from Turkey, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, took part in the international marathon run "From Heart to Heart"; and the winner was awarded a Toyota Corolla car.

Garnik Gukasyan, who was on the wanted list, has been detained on suspicion of involvement in a shootout in Gyumri; and the inquiry period of the case has been extended, said a lawyer involved in the case.

The mother of Anton Lanshakov, who is serving his sentence in the Stavropol Territory, has appealed to Alexei Selyukov, the Ombudsman for the Stavropol Territory, and asked him to provide assistance in the organization of the medical treatment of her son. In her appeal to the Ombudsman, the woman has stressed that Anton is a disabled person since his childhood.

In Poland, three natives of Chechnya have been arrested for three months on suspicion of raising funds for the financing of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS).

The story of the wedding of 17-year-old Kheda Goylabieva and Nazhud Guchigov, the 46-year-old chief of the Nozhai-Yurt ROVD (District Interior Division), is typical of the Caucasian society. This opinion has been expressed by experts and local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The trial against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has been sentenced by the jury to death penalty in the case of the terror act committed during the Boston Marathon, has attracted not much attention in Dagestan. This was stated by local journalist Ramazan Radjabov. Meanwhile, residents of Chechnya actively discuss the case and do not believe Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is guilty.

Today, an FSB investigator has questioned Yulia Parpulova, a daughter of Pyotr Parpulov, a resident of Sochi, accused of treason. Yulia Parpulova has refused to answer the questions of the investigator.