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A resident of Tbilisi Sulhan Dekanoidze joined a five-days hunger strike of oppositional solicitors near the building of the Georgian Parliament and sewed up his mouth. Dekanoidze expresses his protest against the detention of his brother David stating that he is illegally kept in the investigative isolation ward.

Today at 10:56 a.m., the blog of the Ingush rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov that he runs on the "Caucasian Knot" was cracked; that is, a post was published on his behalf, of which he was not the author.

Several mothers in Volgograd whose children cannot attend kindergartens because of the lack of places will join the all-Russian hunger strike on May, 20. This is already the seventh hunger strike held by mothers like them residing in other regions.

Yesterday, May, 18, disabled Samvel Mikaelyan started an open-ended hunger strike near the Embassy of France in Armenia. The participant of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh is indignant with the fact that his social and domestic problems have not yet been solved.

Gogi Tsulaya, ex-deputy of the Georgian Parliament, Chairman of regional organization of oppositional movement "Free Georgia", was detained in Kutaisi, Press service of the movement reports.

Urus-Martan city court in Chechnya obliged the Ministry of Defense to pay 500 thousand rubles for the loss of a woman soldier in Chechnya. According to the judgment, the victim's mother will receive the money as a compensation for moral damage.

On May 17 in Chechnya, a sentence was passed to the 15-year-old boy, who last summer reported false data to the "MegaFon" mobile operator about an impending major terror act.

Four citizens of Georgia have been detained for illegal crossing of the state borders of South Ossetia, said the KGB (State Security Committee) of South Ossetia. According to the Georgian MIA, the young people were gathering edible herbs near the border, when Russian frontier guards tried to arrest them. According to the Georgian party, two of the Georgians were wounded.

The Lenin Federal Court of Makhachkala held another session on the case of journalists from the newspaper "Chernovik" accused of "inciting extremism" and "kindling hatred" to law enforcement bodies. In their last statement the journalists refused to plead guilty. The sentence will be announced on May 19.

The court of general jurisdiction of the administrative districts Kentron and Nork-Marash of Yerevan has ruled to extend by two more months the custody of Major-General Ovannes Tamamyan, ex-head of the Chief Department of Criminal Investigation of the Police of Armenia.

Residents of the Dagestani enclave in Azerbaijan - the village of Khrakh-Uba - have announced their plans to hold a new rally on May 23 in Makhachkala, where they intend to demand again from the authorities of Dagestan and Russia to protect their interests.

Thanks to this year's victory of the Azerbaijani duet, the country will host the "Eurovision-2012" in Baku; more than 2000 residents of South Ossetia stand for referendum on the third presidential term; Kuban residents again draw attention to falsification of criminal cases; victims of floods in Azerbaijan left homeless and without property go on hunger strike, - look these and other events in the review of the week of May 9-15, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Following the information about the intention of the administration of the head of Dagestan to buy a batch of silver watches worth about 80,000 US dollars, the data appeared in the press that the high-ranking guests of the May 11 opening ceremony of the sports complex in Grozny were generously presented with watches with diamonds. As stated now in the Chechen administration, the guests did not receive any gifts bought for the budget money.

The Lenin District Court of Grozny has partially satisfied the claim lodged by Ruman Kosumova, a resident of the village of Kharachoi, Vedeno District of Chechnya, on compensation for her moral sufferings caused to her by actions of prosecutors from the Vedeno District and Shali Inter-District Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department for Chechnya of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The human rights organization named "Mashr" has presented its annual report "Illusion of Law" about human rights violations in Ingushetia in 2010. According to the organization, in 2010, 13 residents of Ingushetia were kidnapped, 9 of them outside the republic; in 2009, the respective figures were 14 and 7.

On May 16, the Sovietskiy District Court of Astrakhan put a full stop in considering the lawsuit filed by the Mayor of Astrakhan Sergey Bozhenov on protection of their honour and dignity and compensation of his moral harm against the newspaper named "Revival of the State". The court ruled to fine Vladimir Anikin, the paper's founder and editor, by 10,000 roubles.

The Tsentralny District Court of Volgograd has extended the detention of Nikolai Volkov, a former deputy of the Regional Duma, accused of a series of sexual crimes against children, the press service of the court said.

Today, the Nizami District Court of the city of Gandzha, chaired by Emin Akhundov, finalized the trial of Bakhtiyar Gadjiev.

The hunger strike of Georgian lawyers near the parliament's building in Tbilisi continues.

Today from 18:00 (17:00 Moscow time) till midnight (23:00 Moscow time) sixty museums of Armenia will receive visitors for free within the framework of the international action the "Night of Museums". This year the slogan of the "Night of Museums" the world over is "Museum and memory".