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Zukhra Mutaeva, a resident of the villageof Zubutli-Miatli, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, claims that her husband KamilMutaev,36, father of four young children, was kidnapped and taken away to some unknown place by armed men in camouflage and masks.

Zalina Gabibulaeva,a resident of Dagestan, who was detainedat the road patrol checkpoint "Chermen" between Ingushetia and North Ossetia, was on her way to Nalchikaiming to get a permit to marriage with Rasul Kudaev, one of the defendants in the caseon events on October 13, 2005. This is stated in Gabibulaeva's application to the chair of the court dealing with this case.

Right before the "Kuban"-"Anji"football match of the 42nd day of the championship of Russia, fans of both teams held a mass brawl.

Internet users are discussing the incident with a fight at the mall "Evropeiskiy" in Moscowin the course of the campaign for observance of traffic rules launched by activists of the public movement "StopKHAM" (Stop Caveman!). Bloggers believe that the incident was kindled by the wife and son of Tamerlan Mingaev, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the ChechenRepublic under the President of Russia.

"Channel Nine", where the co-owner is Ekaterina Khvedelidze, the wife of the leader of the oppositional coalition "Georgian Dream"businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, has begun broadcasting in Georgia.

The Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has completed the investigation of the criminal case initiated against Zeinab Suyunova, a resident of the Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory, accused of the attempted terror actin Red Square in Moscow in 2010.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia altered the sentence to Vadim Vazagov in whose house a gas bottle exploded during a wedding last year, nine persons perished and 50 got injured as a result. The sentence was altered by the court for a conditional one.

Pyatigorsk environmental organization “Sunny patrol” directed the second open letter of behalf of 4,5 thousand residents of Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody to Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in North Caucasian Federal Okrug (NCFO) Alexander Kholoponin asking him to settle the conflict situation connected with development of Mashuk.

On the eve of the Day of Spring and Labour marked on May 1, residents of different areas of the resort city of Sochi, KrasnodarTerritory, were left without electricity, which in most homes was restored only on the following day.

Coordinator of “Left Front” movement in Rostov region Vladislav Ryazantsev was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest.

Eleven candidates in Stavropol region were registered for participation in early election of the Council of the town of Lermontov of the fifth convocation.

Today, Azerbaijan has enacted a ban on showing foreign-made serials and feature films on nationwide TV Channels. According to Nushiravan Magerramli, Chairman of the National TV and Radio Board (NTRB), which made this decision, it is aimed at moral upbringing of young people and will promote the development of the local film industry. The TV broadcasters do not express dissatisfaction with the decision of the NTRB. Alesker Mamedli, the head of the Monitoring Centre of Azerbaijan Broadcasters, believes that the decision violates the broadcasters' rights and limits the choice of the viewers.

In Stavropol, law enforcers made every effort not to admit an unsanctioned rally of Russian nationalists named "Russian Labour March" under the slogan "For Russian Caucasus!"

Today, during the May Day march in Volgograd, the police detained several persons and brought them to the Tsentralny ROVD (District Interior Division). According to Alevtina Dupree, the coordinator of the social movement "The League of Voters", eight persons were detained.

Azerbaijan and Russia have agreed to resolve the issue around the villages of Khrakh-Uba and Uryan-Uba. Villagers of the latter took Azerbaijani citizenship and will stay in their houses, while Russian citizens from Khrakh-Uba decided to move to Russia and settle in the territory of Dagestan. This was reported by the Russian Embassy in Baku.

As reported by Nurullah Abdullaev, 20, a resident of the city of Dagestanskie Ogni, Dagestan, local law enforcers persecute Muslims on religious grounds. So far, the police make no comments on this information.

Today, in the Astrakhan Region, on the bridge over the Kizan River, connecting the villages of Karagan and Tataro-Bashmakovka, people held a rally and a solo picket in memory of Maxim Medvedev, a Karagan villager, who perished on the bridge.

By the situation with the freedom of speech, Azerbaijan and Russia are in the 172nd position in the world; Armenia is No. 149 and Georgia - No. 127. These are the results of the report for 2011 released today by the NGO Freedom House.

President Serzh Sargsyan has visited - together with the Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan - the Mashtots Park, where for more than two months ecologists-activists have been fighting against the build-up of the park. After reviewing the situation, the head of the country instructed the Mayor of Yerevan to immediately dismantle the kiosks.

On April, 30, the activists in the town of Frolovo were planning an action of collecting signatures under an appeal to President of the Russian Federation devoted to the state of roadways in Volgograd region. Representatives of regional authorities and the police suppressed the action.