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The Prosecutor's Office (PO) has requested six years of freedom deprivation for Grigory Melkonyants, a co-chairman of the “Golos” (Vote) Movement* in the case of organizing the activities of an undesirable foreign nongovernmental organization (NGO).

In the village of Leninaul, despite agreements with the local authorities, a Chechen mosque built in the 19th century has been demolished, village residents report.

A local resident suspected of participating in the kidnapping of a man in Yandar has been detained in Magas. The kidnapped man has also been found and hospitalized.

Actress Maria Shukshina spoke out in favour of renaming Volgograd to Stalingrad. Users of her Telegram channel expressed different opinions on the issue. Meanwhile, many Volgograd residents have noted the city needs to solve a lot of problems and renaming the city is not the main one.

Activists have collected twice as many signatures as they had expected to the appeal addressed to the administration of Russian President in connection with the disappearance of Chechen native Seda Suleimanova. The campaign covered more than 20 Russian cities and found a response, including among residents of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kuban (Krasnodar Territory).

In the rural settlement of Yandare, six armed men have forcibly put a man into a car and fled.

At the request of his relatives, on the 40th day of his hunger strike, Tofig Yagublu, an Azerbaijani oppositional politician, has agreed to end his action, which he held in protest against his arrest and 9-year sentence awarded under a fraud case.

On the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow of the Chechen People, which is marked on May 10, the authorities of Chechnya emphasized the mourning for Akhmat Kadyrov. On the anniversary of the deportation, the day of February 23, residents of the republic continue to remember the people who fell victim to repression.

Military parades and processions took place in Kaspiysk, Vladikavkaz, Cherkessk, and Stavropol. In at least two cities, horsemen took part in the parade, and in Kaspiysk, “Akhmat” armoured vehicles were presented.

On May 9, members of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh, President of Nagorno-Karabakh Samvel Shakhramanyan, and activists from Nagorno-Karabakh public organizations visited the “Yerablur” military pantheon in Yerevan, where they laid flowers and wreaths at the graves of those killed in the Nagorno-Karabakh wars and military figures, a “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Mikail Ilezov, a Senator, and Magomed Malsagov, the republic's plenipotentiary envoy under the Russian President, have stated that the situation is under the control of the authorities of Ingushetia and the Vladimir Region. The position of the regional authorities was voiced out after the reaction of Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP from Chechnya.

Today, the court that considers the case of the journalist Mziya Amaglobeli has questioned Irakli Dgebuadze, the head of the Batumi police division of Adjara, whom Mziya had slapped after being detained at a protest. Dgebuadze told the court how he experienced the pain of the journalist's slap.

Alexander Bogdanov, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, has been sentenced to 18 years in a strict regime penal colony on charges of involvement in a terrorist organization and preparing a terror act.

Mobile Internet shutdowns during the Victory Day celebrations are planned in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), Rostov and Volgograd Regions, sources have reported. The MTS operator in Dagestan has warned subscribers about "temporary difficulties" with mobile Internet.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev will not fly to Moscow for the festive events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory, the Russian presidential aide reports. Amid growing tensions in the Russian-Azerbaijani relations, an Ilham Aliev’s visit to Moscow would be critically perceived by the Azerbaijani society, a “Caucasian Knot” blogger notes.

The US Embassy in Georgia has disseminated the information about possible explosions in three shopping centres in Tbilisi. In response, the Georgian State Security Service has called on diplomats not to publish any similar messages without the consent of the country’s law enforcement bodies.

Azerbaijani opposition activist Tofig Yagublu has started a dry hunger strike because he can no longer drink water. The “Musavat” Party has called a meeting to discuss actions to save the activist.

In Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), Andrei Kolontaevsky, a deputy division head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) branch for the Krasnoarmeisky District, has been declared wanted. The activists from the village of Poltavskaya, who are fighting against the garbage dump, have noted that Kolontaevsky had waged repressions against them.

A new administrative case against the journalist Mziya Amaglobeli has arrived in the Batumi City Court. The reason for drawing up the administrative protocol was the poster she pasted on the wall of a building during this January protest.

The attack in Makhachkala and other recent armed incidents in Dagestan are only indirectly related, although they stem from common premises that authorities have failed to eliminate over the years of fighting the underground – social injustice and legal problems.