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Law enforcers of Azerbaijan ignore the demands for the return of foreign passports to the spouses Leyla and Arif Yunus, the lawyer Khalid Bagirov asserts.

The Turkish authorities worried over the murders of Muslim religious leaders committed in the Russian Caucasus, said Mehmet Germez, Head of the Department on Religious Affairs of Turkey.

On May 6, Azamat Akhkubekov, a defendant in the case dealing with the attack on Nalchik, was transferred from the dungeon into a prison cell. At the same time, he stopped his hunger strike, which lasted for 22 days, said Mustafa Taukenov, a representative of the Ombudsperson in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

Five participants in the protest held on May 6 against the conviction of activists of the "Nida" movement have been sentenced to administrative arrests for 15-20 days. They were found guilty of disobeying the police. Ten other persons were fined; and three other detainees were released after passing a warning.

On May 5, the Committee on Procedural Matters of the Assembly of the State of California (USA) decided to recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenian political analysts do not rule out that the decision could be influenced by Ukrainian events; however, they remind that such resolutions are not adopted by the US Government, which recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.

The four persons killed today during a special operation in the Makhachkala township named Semender had been preparing terror acts during May holidays, the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

Andrei Kolmakov, a member of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of the Tambov Region, was not allowed to visit the Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, who is serving his sentence in a colony-settlement in the Tambov Region, the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) reports.

The trial of the case of dismissed operators of the Yerevan metro began on May 6 in the court of general jurisdiction of the administrative districts of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeitun. The workers are sure that they had been sacked because of their active participation in the struggle against the accumulative pension system.

Today, the Supreme Court of Chechnya has dismissed a complaint against the custody of Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the "Assembly of Caucasian Peoples" (ACP), accused of drug possession, said Evgeny Chikhlikov, the spokesman of the Joint Mobile Group.

The house in the village of Novy Agachaul in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, which was blown up by power agents on May 4, had belonged to a local resident who was killed in a special operation in 2013, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has reported.

The Volgograd Regional Court has ruled to collect 50,000 roubles from the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) in favour of the former conscript, who was abused by his commander during his military service.

Today, the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala has acquitted the doctor Marat Gunashev, who had been accused of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs).

Nika Gvaramiya, Director General of the TV Company "Rustavi-2", said today at a briefing in Georgia, that secret surveillance was conducted in their office. He managed to get a CD with records of conversations that took place in the offices of the company top managers.

On May 6, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes announced the verdict to eight activists of the movement "Nida", accused of organizing mass riots. Judge Djavid Guseinov handed down a guilty verdict and sentenced the young people to real prison terms ranging from 6 to 8 years. After the announcement of the verdict, a support group of more than a hundred people who gathered close to the courthouse began chanting "Freedom!"

The Moscow Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported on the completion of the investigation into the criminal case against Orkhan Zeinalov, an Azerbaijani citizen, accused of the murder of Yegor Scherbakov, a Moscow resident. In the nearest future, the case will be sent to the court.

In Azerbaijan, Arif Yunus, Director of the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies and Migration Processes of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), has been called for questioning to the Investigating Department of Grave Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) as a witness in the case against journalist Rauf Mirkadirov, accused of treason.

The defence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is accused of organizing a terror act in Boston, has filed a motion to establish restrictions for FBI agents, attending the meetings of the native of Chechnya with his advocates. This was reported today by The Boston Globe newspaper.

On May 9, Chechnya will hold a military parade on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, and on May 10, on the Day of Memory and Grief, the republic will hold events of religious nature. This was reported by the Grozny city administration.

This year, the authorities of North Ossetia plan to purchase ten special motor vehicles to transport persons with disabilities. The national budget is to allocate 14.5 million roubles for purchasing of new motor vehicles under the programme "Accessible Environment". The federal budget is to allocate the same amount.

Law enforcers have damaged a number of houses in a special operation conducted in Khasavyurt, a local told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Townspeople also argue that during the special operation only two militants were killed, while the third one managed to escape, despite the tight encirclement.