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On May 13, the Council of Europe (CE) declared illegal the treaty on alliance and strategic partnership between Russia and Abkhazia and the treaty on alliance and integration between Russia and South Ossetia. Besides, according to the CE, those treaties were signed in violation of international law.

In Rostov-on-Don, the court has sentenced to freedom restriction a local resident, who was found guilty of false report about a bomb in a hypermarket.

Employees of the Drug Control Service for Dagestan have rescued citizen of Belarus from his two-year-long labour captivity.

A Sochi resident Ekaterina Kharebava, convicted on charges of spying for Georgia, is a political prisoner and should be released immediately, says the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

At the trial held in Rostov-on-Don of the ex-Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, the prosecutor claimed that the motive for Amirov's actions was his desire to put his nephew Yusup Djaparov into the administration of Kaspiysk. At the session on May 12, the prosecutor said the "land issue" was behind the terror act committed on April 2, 2011, in the "Moskva" Shopping Centre in Kaspiysk.

Today, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow has not allowed Evgeny Gubin to defend Zaur Dadaev, accused of killing the politician Boris Nemtsov.

Today, the "Musavat" Party has announced the beginning of the hunger strike involving six persons. The protestors demand to release political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

Today, Baku has hosted the ceremony to open the European Games Park, where the First European Games in Azerbaijan are to hold competitions in four sports.

Mass detentions of mosque-goers in Buynaksk will not affect the security in the region. However, those detentions suggest discontinuation of the policy of dialogue, and that can lead to non-transparency of activities of the Salafi community. This opinion has been expressed by experts.

The Khasavyurt City Court has sentenced a local resident to 2.5 years of imprisonment on charges of aiding and abetting illegal armed formations (IAFs) and arms trafficking.

Investigators have changed the pre-trial restriction measure against Rudik Khachatryan, who was arrested on charge of attacking Grachya Mirzoyan, a member of the movement "Founding Parliament". According to the victim, the attacker was released on recognizance not to leave.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Georgia to pay 33,500 euros to the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) activists, who suffered in Tbilisi in May 2012 in clashes during the action against homophobia.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime which had been in force since March 16, was cancelled in the cities of Khasavyurt and Kizilyurt and in the Khasavyurt, Kizilyurt, and Novolak Districts of Dagestan.

The motions lodged by Ali Taziev, including the appointment of an interpreter, and the provision of time for getting acquainted with his case files, have been rejected today by the North-Caucasian Military District Court.

Alexander Zakharchenko, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) has signed decrees recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the appeal lodged by the journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov against the extension of his arrest until 19 September. His defence finds this decision illegal.

Sergey Loshkaryov, a public activist from Rostov-on-Don, accused of arms dealing, has been found guilty and sentenced to two years in a colony-settlement, his advocate Leonid Novikov has reported today.

Today, in the course of the trial started at the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don in the case against Said Amirov, the defence has filed a motion for the permit to keep the former Mayor of Makhachkala and his nephew in the same cell. However, the Court has dismissed the motion.

Investigators consider an interpersonal conflict as a major version of the armed attack, in which Mikhail Razievsky, the head of the Cossack village of Akhtanizovskaya, and his assistant were wounded. The lives of the wounded men are not in danger, the Investigating Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

In Dagestan, the court has granted the claims filed by the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office to recognize extremist six materials on the Internet, which contain calls for the seizure of power, justification of terrorism, and involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs)