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The journalist community of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) appealed to Oleg Zharikov, Republic's Prosecutor, with a request to take under his control the investigation into the case against journalist Igor Tsagoev.

Azer Aikhan, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Azerbaijani opposition newspaper "Yeni Musavat", claims receiving during three days the demands to stop publishing critical articles about Elmar Veliev, the head of the executive authorities of the city of Gandzha, and threats of physical violence.

The murder of a young man in Volgograd was committed because of his unconventional sexual orientation, one of the detainees, suspected of committing the crime told investigators. This was reported by Badma Gilyandikov, a representative of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Alexander Dunaev, ex-Mayor of the city of Lermontov of the Stavropol Territory, is suspected of attempting to discredit the election of the City Mayor and interfere with work of the election commission, and he faces up to four years of imprisonment. This was reported by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Gadjimurad Gamzatov appealed to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with a request to assist in the search for and protection of the rights of his brother Makhach. On May 15, at the request of the brother of Makhach Gamzatov, the appeal will be sent to the Republic's Prosecutor's Office. This was reported by Elena Denisenko, the representative of the HRC "Memorial" in Dagestan.

The Police Department of the city of Worcester has stated that the state is to repay the expenses in the amount of 47,171 US dollars for the protection of the funeral home "Graham, Putnam and Mahoney", where the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suspected of committing the terror act in Boston, was stored.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, a 23-year contract military from Bashkiria shot to his head and survived. This was reported by the police of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR).

Three soldiers from Georgia were killed, and 20 others were wounded in the Afghan province of Helmand in a terrorists' attack on the military base, said today Irakli Alasaniya, the Georgian Defence Minister.

In the park of the December Uprising in the Presnya District of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, 11 natives of Northern Caucasus were detained. The police suspect them of robbery.

Today, the Nalchik City Court has declared illegal the charges of abuse of power of the figurants of the case of trying to sell the building of the Philharmonic Society, said the lawyer Ruslan Koblev.

The Interpol has stopped searching for the Georgian MP Givi Targamadze, who had been put on the international wanted list by the Russian MIA, by regarding the request of the Russian party as politically motivated. As of May 12, Targamadze is still being wanted in Russia.

Crash of freight train in the Rostov Region; adoption of law on large-scale amnesty in Azerbaijan; verdict on 15 years in colony to native of Chechnya Temerkhanov for killing Budanov in Moscow; cancellation of direct election of the head of Ingushetia; announcement of candidate for President of Georgia from the "Georgian Dream" at the autumn presidential election, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of May 6-12, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot.

Ilya Goryachev and Mikhail Volkov, members of the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN), suspected of involvement in the murders of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the judge Eduard Chuvashov, have been detained in the territory of Serbia and Ukraine, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Today, the highway Armavir-Margara was blocked by farmers from the Armavir Region, who demanded compensations for the damage caused by heavy hail.

Today, the court has dismissed the appeal against the two-month extension of the arrest of Mamed Azizov, a civil activist of the movement "Nida" (Shout), accused of drug possession.

Today, the Baku Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal complaint lodged by Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", and upheld the decision of the First Instance Court, which had sentenced the journalist to 9 years in prison.

In Dagestan, policemen have detained Zaurbek Ashurov, 25, a resident of Buynaksk, and took him to some unknown place, said his brother Shamsudin Ashurov. In its turn, the press service of the Dagestani MIA has reported that they know nothing about the detention.

A check of the information about the kidnapping in Makhachkala of a resident of the republic Makhach Gamzatov will be undertaken by a special unit of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, said Shamil Nasimov, Senior Assistant of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic for contacts with media and public relations, a Senior Adviser of Justice. Gamzatov was detained by the police, said a source from the Lenin ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala.

According to the spokesman of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), in Buynaksk unidentified gunmen opened fire at a car and killed a policeman and a civilian who was with him in the car.

The Armenian government has decided to pay 112,000 euros to members of the religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses, who had won the case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).