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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".

A mass scuffle occurred in Lubertsi district of Moscow region, one person perished as a result and seven got injured, a source in law enforcement bodies of the district reported.

Department of Rosprirodnadzor in Krasnodar region and Adygeia inspected an area in the neighbourhood of Anapa, questioned the divers and found no corroboration of the information received that three tens dead dolphins were found in the water area.

An attempt at deputy imam of the local mosque was committed in the settlement of Sultanyangi-Yurt, Kizilyurt district of Dagestan, his fourteen-year-old daughter got wounded.

The Presnya Court of Moscow has extended - until July 6 - the custody of Aslan Cherkesov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of murdering in Moscow Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" FC. This was announced today by Olga Sutyapova, press secretary of the court.

The information that the Moscow-Nalchik train was mined proved to be false; the women who had reported about the bomb is registered at the narcology service, said Khazret Zhangeriev, head of the Linear Department of Internal Affairs on Transport.

Rudlan Khanbutaev, a resident of the village of Sovietskoe, Magaramkent District, who was beaten by local policemen on May 13, complains that the district prosecutor's office and the investigatory committee do their best to ignore the fact of the crime.

On May 15, in Makhachkala, the Dagestani veterans of the Afghan warfare held a rally dedicated to the 23rd anniversary of the start of withdrawal of troop from Afghanistan. At the rally, speakers demanded to investigate the murder of a veteran of Afghanistan, Police Lieutenant Colonel Mugudin Urdikhanov, and reiterated their social problems. They also stated their readiness to go on another hunger strike, if in the near future authorities fail to take measures to help them.

On May 15, Grigor Usnyan, 22, a citizen of Armenia, who was attacked on May 8, died in the Chekhov District of the Moscow Region.

A scandal has burst out on the eve of the regional festival of young playwrights "Rostov Readings", scheduled for May 25, related to the play of the young Rostov playwright Vladimir Golyshev named "Prebiotics". Along with other Russian politicians, the play mentions Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Today, at the Government House, Arsen Kanokov, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), urged parents from the Elbrus District to influence their sons, who are on the search list as suspects of terror activities, towards their return to peaceful life.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has opened a criminal case on the offences, revealed within the pension system in 2009-2010. Bureaucrats used machinations to embezzle more than 113 million drams from the state budget.

A person's involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) should be proved only in the court, while the practice of killing suspects without trial in Northern Caucasus must be stopped. This was stated by Vladimir Lukin, Russian Ombudsman, who presented his 2010 report to the State Duma.

Several people in the district center of Imishli, Azerbaijan, started a hunger strike of protest stating that the money assigned by the state on aid to victims of the flood caused by overflow of the Kura and the Araz rivers were distributed unfairly or plundered.

Journalist Zoya Svetova is sure of political responsibility of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov for Estemirova's death. She told about it on May 16, while giving evidence at the Khamovniki Court of Moscow. According to her story, during her meeting with Estemirova in London, the latter expressed fears for his life; and the threat came not from militants.