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The Tbilisi police have prevented the May Day student action. As a result of a clash with law enforcers, a number of protesters were detained, said the eyewitness of the events Mariam Gachechiladze.

The US law enforcers have detained three more suspects of involvement in the terror act in Boston, Boston police has reported today by posting the information in their microblog on the Twitter.

Today, investigators have accused Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), arrested in connection with the events in the city of Ismailly, of organizing mass disturbances, accompanied by violence and pogroms.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has received from the Moscow Prosecutor's Office (MPO) a presentation saying that the HRC is acting as a foreign agent without being registered as such at the authorized body and demanding to eliminate - within a month - the violation of federal law. The leaders of the HRC "Memorial" believe that conclusions of the MPO are wrong and plan to appeal against them.

As reported today by a source from the Investigatory Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the casualties of the today's explosion in Makhachkala were identified as pupils of Lyceum No. 5.

17 participants of the incident at the Islamic wedding party in Kizlyar were sentenced to different terms of administrative penalties, and the detention in custody of five of them at the IVS (temporary detention facility) was extended for another two days.

In Georgia, representatives of the Chief Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) state that they do not have any information on the whereabouts of Magomed Magomedov, a native of Dagestan, who disappeared in Tbilisi. It is known that Magomed Magomedov himself was sentenced in Georgia to two years of imprisonment for illegal crossing of the border; however, in January 2013, he was amnestied, and he asked the Georgian authorities for a political asylum.

Alexander Goryainov, a soldier of a unit of the internal troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), accused of killing his colleague, was sentenced by the Military Court in Chechnya to eight years of imprisonment. The crime was committed in November 2012.

Djambulat Magomedduganov, a resident of the village of Stalskoe of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who was found guilty of advocating extremism and inciting hatred and enmity on the Internet, was fined by the court 150,000 roubles.

Today, the Baku police prevented the action in memory of victims of the massacre at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA) in 2009.

Today, at the trial on the case of the attack on the law enforcers of Kabardino-Balkaria that occurred on October 13, 2005, the aggrieved party filed a joint civil lawsuit against the defendants for a total amount of more than 22 million roubles.

Law enforcement agents of Kazakhstan detained Orts Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, whose disappearance in October 2012 was reported by his relatives. This was stated on April 29 by Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Republic's Security Council.

Today, with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), residents of South Ossetia, serving their sentences in Gldani Prison No. 8 in Tbilisi, were visited by their relatives. This was reported by Irakly Kordzaya, the head of the press service of the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia.

Musa Kadyrov, a football referee, who was suspended for lifetime from refereeing after his fight with a football player, was fined 500,000 roubles by the decision of the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU). For participating in the incident, Ilya Krichmar, a football player of the "Amkar" FC, was disqualified for four matches of youth championship and fined 15,000 roubles.

Staff members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) revealed the embezzlement of more than 31 million roubles allocated from the federal budget for the repair and maintenance of the highway M-6 "Kaspiy" Moscow-Astrakhan, the Russian MIA reports.

Today, the Prosecutor's Office asked the court to sentence Yusup Temerkhanov, a native of Chechnya, accused of the murder of ex-Colonel Yuri Budanov, to 16 years of imprisonment to be served in a penal colony of high security, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Relatives of Magomedkhabib Magomedaliev, who was killed during the special operation, held on March 20 in the village of Semender in Makhachkala outskirts, report that the body has not been given them out for burial.

The Moscow City Court sentenced Bekhkan Rizvanov accused of attempted murder during the fight at the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeysky" (European) in Moscow, to eight years of imprisonment in a penal colony of high security.

In Chechnya, investigation into the deaths of two soldiers of the Russian military unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence, who on April 28 blew up an unidentified explosive device in the south of the Republic. Both victims were contract soldiers who had come to serve in Chechnya from other regions of Russia, the Commandant's Office reports.

Today, the Disciplinary Commission of the Referees' Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU) decided to suspend for life Musa Kadyrov, a line referee from Chechnya who beat a football player.