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In Georgia, a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), involved in monitoring local elections, report about facts of pressure on candidates for deputies to local self-governments and heads of district administrations urging them to withdraw their candidacies.

The employee of the OMON (riot police), who was wounded during the special operation in the Gunib District of Dagestan, has undergone a surgery; his condition is grave, says the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by local resident that several combatants, who went to take part in the warfare in Ukraine and were killed there, were buried in Chechnya without publicity. According to locals, the wounded residents of Chechnya are still in hospitals in Donetsk.

Today, following the results of the meeting with the leadership of the city UVD (Interior Department), human rights defenders and members of public organizations of Sochi, have made a decision to repeatedly inspect the ROVDs (District Interior Divisions). During the today's meeting, the activists summed up the results of the inspection held on April 21-30.

This school year, in the Pravoberezhny District of North Ossetia, 483 pupils are school graduates; of them, 48 schoolchildren are former pupils of School No. 1 in Beslan, which in 2004 was captured by terrorists. This was reported by Oksana Tsarikaeva, Assistant Minister for Education of North Ossetia.

The Sochi authorities are obliged to ensure the supply of water to residents of the village of Akhshtyr, which is a part of the municipality. During five years, the Akhshtyr villagers are deprived of normal water supply. This opinion was expressed by human rights defenders, ecologists and lawyers, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has hosted the first "Marathon of Peace and Friendship", which was attended by about 40 persons with disabilities, wheelchair users, including children with disabilities. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Participants of the interregional conference "Human rights and international relations in Northern Caucasus" held on May 24 in Pyatigorsk have adopted a resolution to create the Centre for Human Rights Monitoring and Protection in Southern Russia. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In Abkhazia, the opposition has stated that Alexander Ankvab, who has refused to voluntarily leave his position of the president of the republic, has no chances to regain power. The Abkhaz opposition claims that it will form the interim government within the next two days.

The Coordinating Council of oppositional political forces of Abkhazia has announced, at a rally of the opposition, the formation of the Interim People's Council, comprising notable politicians and public figures of the republic. Meanwhile, in the evening on May 29, the Abkhazian Parliament offered the President to resign. The MPs also expressed a vote of non-confidence to the Prime Minister.

Members of the armed underground had extorted money from Gamzat Musaev, the head of the electricity grid of the Gergebil District of Dagestan, near whose house an explosion was triggered on May 28, a local told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The press service of the Dagestani MIA has added that in October 2013, a grenade was found under the car near Musaev's the house.

The advocate of Muslim Ataev, a resident of the village of Tarki, who was detained on May 28, has managed to meet his client in the Kirov ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, after which the lawyer stated that the detainee had been exposed to illegal methods of investigation.

Today, Aynur Imranova, an investigative journalist, whose bank accounts were arrested by a court ruling, was questioned at the Investigating Department for Grave Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan as a witness in a criminal case initiated "against a number of local and international non-governmental organizations."

Residents of Chechnya assert that during the last 24 hours bodies of several dozens of locals who took part in fights in Ukraine and perished in the Donetsk Region, where brought home, citing the number from 35 to 40-45.

The Circassian activists Aslan Shazzo, Adnan Khuade, Evgeny Tashu and Ilyas Soobtsokov, who live in Adygea, were summoned to the Centre for Combating Extremism (known as "E" Centre) of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to their story, the talks there concerned the appeal to the authorities of Ukraine urging to recognize the genocide of Circassians, which was signed by them.

In Rostov-on-Don, at the trial in the case against Said Amirov, former Mayor of Makhachkala dismissed from office, accused of plotting a terror act, an expert in psychiatry has concluded that several prosecution witnesses were subjected to psychological traumatic impact. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from the courtroom.

Ten natives of Dagestan, who were allegedly plotting a subversive and terror act in the Moscow Region during the Victory Day celebrations, were detained in the Moscow Region in the place of their residence. This has been reported today by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

In Azerbaijan, the public movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) has begun the process of transformation into a political party with the same name. The "ReAl" sees its programme goal in the transformation of Azerbaijan from a presidential into a parliamentary republic, construction of democratic society, and, in the future, Azerbaijan's integration into the EU and NATO.

In the village of Gergebil in Dagestan, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated at the gate of the house belonging to the director of the power supply organization of the Gergebil District. This has been reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

On May 28, in the centre of Tbilisi, organizations within the coalition "Eurasian Choice-Georgia" held a rally demanding to restore diplomatic relations with Russia. During the rally, members of the coalition clashed with supporters of the Euro-Atlantic choice of Georgia.