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The whereabouts of the two female students of the Buynaksk Teachers' College, who disappeared on May 17, is still unknown. A criminal case on their disappearance is not yet instituted, as the law enforcement bodies have no information that the girl had been abducted or detained, said the MIA of Dagestan.

Vilayat Eivazov, the deputy head of the MIA of Azerbaijan, met the lawyer Aslan Ismajlov, who had reported threats and physical pressure from investigators. He promised to study the situation and punish those guilty, the lawyer himself said today. In the opinion of Orkhan Mansurzade from the press service of the MIA, none of the investigators had ever beaten Ismajlov; he just wants to attract attention.

Ali Omarov, the former General Public Prosecutor (GPP) of Azerbaijan, has stated today that he had received threats from a man, who introduced himself as a police officer. His statement will be investigated by law enforcement bodies, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

An additional service soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, who was taking his service at the military unit in Shamkira, has committed suicide, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Nine mothers have announced a three-day hunger strike in Volgograd, trying to attract attention of local authorities to the problem of shortage of places in kindergartens, rehabilitation of children with disabilities, the need to reopen dairy kitchens and increase salaries of preschool educators.

In the evening on May 30, four unidentified men attacked the defenders of the unloading dock, located in the Volgograd Region, a blogger Alexei Ulyanov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the Lenin District Court of Makhachkala has rejected the claim lodged by the lawyer Rasul Kadiev in demand of compensation for his moral harm caused by the abolition of direct elections. The lawyer said that he would appeal against the rejection.

The Nariman District Court of Baku is finalizing the trial of six believers, who were arrested last October for taking part in the action against the ban on wearing hijabs in schools.

Ibragim Todashev, a native of Chechnya and an acquaintance of Tamerlan and Johar Tsarnaev, suspects of committing the Boston terror act, who was shot dead by an FBI agent during an interrogation in Florida, was not armed, The Washington Post writes.

On May 28, in the Tbilisi District of the Krasnodar Territory, a policeman knocked down a 27-year-old man with a child of 9, who were on the road shoulder. The injured persons were taken to hospital with multiple injuries of varying gravity.

Johar Tsarnaev, a suspect of committing the Boston terror act, who was wounded at detention, has recovered his voice recovered; and he already had a six-minute phone conversation with his mother Zubeydat Tsarnaeva.

At Berth 4 of Poti Port, a cargo container fell down and killed a 45-year-old worker. The Occupational Safety Division of the Association of Trade Unions of Georgia is investigating the accident trying to reveal those guilty persons, said Gocha Alexandriya, the spokesman of the Association. The official investigation says that the versions of safety violations and negligence are studied.

As reported by locals, at night on May 26, policemen beat and detained a group of young people in the village of Kubina, Abaza District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). The MIA has refuted the information, claiming that policemen did nothing illegal.

Today, the spokesman of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported that another victim of the explosion in Gamzatov Street in Makhachkala died in hospital.

The Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is almost ready to open a criminal case on the five-day war in August 2008 in the area of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict; however, the resumption of the investigation in Georgia can suspend the process, believes Simon Papuashvili, a volunteer of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. In its turn, the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia treats the investigation as "a matter of honour."

The Uniform State Exam (USE) in the Russian language of a schoolgirl the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) will be cancelled, because the girl posted her performed test on the Internet, Tamara Djappueva, the head of the department for supervision and control in the field of education of the KBR Ministry of Education, has announced today.

Today, near the residence of the President of Armenia, former employees of the company "Armavia" which declared bankruptcy held a protest action. The protesters filed to the President's Office the complaint against the management of the company, demanding to pay wage arrears.

Today, Malkhaz Bokhua, the former deputy head of the military police of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Georgia, was detained on charges of embezzling budget funds on a large scale. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defence.

Three female residents of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan in hijabs were detained by law enforcement agents. After fingerprinting and questioning, the women were released. This was reported by Khadizhat Magomedova, one of the detained women, a resident of the village of Mogilyovskoe. The interrogations are being conducted in connection with the murder of a policeman; however, they are being conducted correctly. This was stated by Fatima Ubaidatova, the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan.

Today, Iskender Gamidov, former Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan, was released from the police after he had given evidence in the case of a rally held in the village of Novkhany.