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The parade in Grozny was watched by militaries, policemen and a handful of officials, while ordinary citizens were not allowed to come and watch the event, residents of Grozny report.

About 16,000 people went out with portraits of war participants to the "Immortal Regiment" in Volgograd, as estimated by the police, while the organizers of the action assert that much more people joined the march in the process.

Natives of the Caucasus were active participants of the Great Patriotic War, while the myths of their mass desertion and collaboration with fascists are intended to justify the repressions against Caucasian nations, peoples, the historians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

In the evening on May 8, reinforced military and police posts were deployed in the central streets of Grozny in connection with the upcoming military parade.

Many Georgians are still treating positively the person of Joseph Stalin, since they are poorly informed about the events of the period of repressions, Georgian experts believe.

Abumuslim Gasanov and Mirzabek Idrisov, who were killed in a special operation in Makhachkala, were suspected of attacking servicemen, robberies and extortions.

A mass detention of mosque parishioners took place in the city of Buynaksk. All the detainees were later released, eyewitnesses have reported.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which was introduced in the city of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, on May 7, was cancelled in the evening today, on May 8.

DNA residues of the Russian serviceman Valery Permyakov, accused of killing the Avetisyan family in the city of Gyumri, were found on objects in the house of the massacred family. These are the results of the forensic genetic examination.

The transport collapse at the Kerch ferry crossing, which promised to be a real nightmare for drivers, did not happen because of lower flow of tourists after bad weather forecasts. Besides, a new ferry boat will start working next week.

With the transition to the federal level, the action "Immortal Regiment," within which people go to holiday parades on May 9 bearing photos of their relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War, has aroused great interest in Southern Russia, coordinators of the action report.

As reported by locals, in Grozny, power agents carried out the so-called "passport checks" on the eve of the Victory Day celebrations.

The working group on listing political prisoners, consisting of public activists, journalists, rights defenders and lawyers, has reported that today Azerbaijani prisons keep 80 political prisoners, and urged the authorities to release "prisoners of conscience".

Grozny residents note a significant accumulation of military equipment and power agents in the centre of the Chechen capital, which caused blocking of streets in the morning on May 7.

According to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), Krasnodar authorities were involved in dismantling billboards with portraits of Stalin from city streets; however, officials from the Mayoralty and territorial administration state that that they had nothing to do with the action.

According to international observers, at the recent parliamentary elections in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the problems of persons with disabilities were not fully taken into account. The earlier proposals to ensure invalids' rights were not realized at the elections, said the public organization "Vita".

A Magistrate Judge has stopped the criminal case opened against the director of the state farm "Avturinsky" in the Shali District of Chechnya, who had been accused of non-payment of salaries to his employees for 18 months. The Prosecutor's Office has challenged the decision of the judge.

Patimat Begova, who left the blocked in the house during a special operation in Makhachkala, has been released from the police station, said her mother.

The persons killed in a special operation in Makhachkala have been pre-identified as Zaur Begov, Abumuslim Gasanov and Mirzabek Idrisov.

After the dance at the memorial in Novorossiysk, Ekaterina Scherbedinskaya was fired from her job, and Margarita Radetskaya, her colleague in the dance studio, was expelled from college, their relatives report.