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The spokesman of the US State Department has announced that the United States does not intend to recognise the results of the parliamentary elections held in Nagorno-Karabakh on May 3.

A 17-year-old high school girl from the village of Djokola in the Pankisi Gorge went to war in Syria. According to one of the teachers, the 17-year-old girl has not been attending classes for several days, and soon after that she left the territory of Georgia.

Tarkhan Batirashvili, also known as Umar al-Shishani, a field commander of the "Islamic State", which was declared a terrorist organization, was killed in Iraq. This has been reported today by the news agency "Alforat".

Yazidis of Armenia have appealed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request to "raise at the international level the issue of destruction of Yazidis in northern Iraq near Telafar." This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Gamlet Smoyan, the leader of the public organization "National Union of Sinjar Yazidis".

In Kizilyurt, a resident of Dagestan, who was on the federal wanted list, blew himself up while the police tried to detain him. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan.

On May 1, Grozny held a demonstration, which, according to the Council of Trade Unions of Chechnya, was attended by about 100,000 people. Residents of Chechnya claimed being forced to take part in the May Day demonstrations.

During the shootout in Makhachkala, three persons were injured and hospitalized. One of the wounded men is a brother of a policeman killed in the shootout.

A Russian citizen invited to testify for the defence in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was denied the entry to the US by the FBI because of his possible association with extremists.

On April 30, in his interview to the "Moscow Speaking", Ramzan Kadyrov confirmed his willingness to "be happy to leave power" and step down as the leader of Chechnya.

The leaders of the opposition political parties of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), participating in the elections to the National Assembly are optimistic about the future voting and expect to impose the struggle to the so-called "big parliamentary troika".

At the May Day demonstration, activists of the "Gnchak" Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Armenia criticized the policy of the Armenian authorities. The activists demanded to respect the workers' rights.

Today, celebrations in honour of May 1 passed in the regions of the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD) of Russia. The participants raised the problems of decent wages and lack of jobs.

Four persons have died in a shootout at a restaurant in Makhachkala, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has reported, confirming the death of a police officer in the incident.

The Stavropol police have driven activists of the "Communist of Russia" Party away from the pro-government rally dedicated to May 1, said Mikhail Abramyan, the second secretary of the Stavropol branch of the party.

Today, the Tbilisi City Court has held a session on the case of the ex-Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on the dispersal of the rally on November 7, 2007.

Today, Tofig Yagublu, the Deputy Chairman of the opposition "Musavat" Party of Azerbaijan, temporary released to attend the funeral of his daughter, has returned to the penal colony.

The process of recognizing the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey should be continued in the clear formulation of claims by Armenia, which still has not been prepared. This was declared by participants of the "round table" "On the way to the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey: a new stage?", which took place in Yerevan on April 29.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has warned foreign observers about possible criminal prosecution in the case of their arrival in Nagorno-Karabakh to monitor the elections. The OSCE Minsk Group co-Chairs claimed non-recognition of the results of the elections scheduled for Sunday, May 3.

Tatiana Kornaeva, a physician of the hospital No. 8 of Rostov-on-Don, is accused of failure to provide medical assistance to Vyacheslav Ivanov, an elderly patient, who died not far from the hospital. The case has been brought to court.

The human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) has sent a letter to Gevorg Kostanyan, the General Prosecutor of Armenia. In its letter, the HRW made a statement in support of the arrested activists of the opposition movement "Founding Parliament".