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Today, the Constitutional Court of Armenia has denied the claim lodged by Deputies of the National Assembly to abolish the prohibition stipulated by the Electoral Code to disclose the list of those voters, who have actually cast their ballot papers.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan has upheld the decision of the Lenin Magistrate Court of Makhachkala, prescribing to liquidate the religious books confiscated from Ziyavdin Dapaev, a follower of the Turkish theologian Said Nursi, who had been earlier convicted of organizing an extremist organization.

As a result of the double terror act committed in Makhachkala, five teenagers were injured – three are in local medical institutions; and two kids were let home after first aid. In total, 62 victims were hospitalized in Makhachkala.

The police have dispersed a picket held in Stavropol on May 4 at midday in front of the House of Justice in defence of pensioner Valentina Prasolova, who was accused of extremism. According to the police, the action was illegal.

On May 4, in Yerevan, the "Civil Movement of Tegut Defenders" organized a protest against felling the Tsagov Forest in the town of Zhukovsky, Moscow Region. Activists marched from the Mashtots Park to the Embassy of Russia in Armenia and expressed their support for Russian ecologists.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has dismissed Tamerlan Mingaev from his post of Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the Chechen Republic under the Russian President. The dismissal has to do with the improper conduct of his wife Madina Mingaeva, said Ramzan Kadyrov.

Today, the head of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov has told reporters that the alleged executors of the double terror act on May 3 in Makhachkala were brother and sister Rizvan Aliev and Muslimat Alieva. On the eve of the terror act, a law enforcement source cited their names as searched suspects of preparing terror acts on May 9.

Shortly after the April 22 special operation in the village of Komsomolskoe, Gudermes District of Chechnya, armed men in camouflage burned down the houses belonging to relatives of Akhmed Bantaev, one of those killed in the special operation. This was reported by local residents to human rights defenders.

As reported by the Armenian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), 25 victims of the explosion in Republic Square of Yerevan are still treated at intensive care units of local medical centres. The exploded balloons could be filled with hydrogen or methane, which have the lifting force and are explosives at the same time, said Vladimir Fedotov, Deputy Director of the Scientific and Production Association (SPA) "Geliymash". He denies that the balloons could be filled with helium, the RIA "Novosti" reports.

The court session in Astrakhan on the lawsuit initiated by Oleg Shein, an ex-candidate for the Mayor of the city and organizer of a hunger strike for cancellation of the election outcome, has interrogated 16 witnesses of the claimant.

The explosion occurred on May 4 in Republic Square during a pre-election rally-concert of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia. The number of victims was 144, said the spokesman of the Armenia's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

The Moscow Prosecutor's Office will supervise the investigation into the brawl near the "Evropeiskiy" Trading Centre between activists of the movement "Nashi" and relatives of Tamerlan Mingaev, Deputy Representative of the Chechen Republic at the President of the Russian Federation, the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) reports.

Materials on the crimes committed by employees of law enforcement bodies in Dagestan will be transferred to the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation additionally, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported. The crimes are rapes, murders, acts of torture and kidnappings.

Kamil Mutaev, a resident of the village of Zubutli-Miatli, Kizilyurt District, who was kidnapped in Dagestan, had been earlier detained several times by the police, said his wife Zukhra Mutaeva.

President of Dagestan Магомедсалам Магомедов has visited the victims of the double terror act, who were taken to City Hospital No. 2 of Makhachkala. According to his decision, May 5 was announced to be the day of mourning.

The double explosion in Makhachkala at night on May 3 was the sixth such incident in Northern Caucasus since the beginning of 2011.

On May 3 in Baku, the celebrations of the World Press Freedom Day were accompanied by the presentation of the website of the Regional School of Investigative Journalism (RSIJ). The website investigator.az, operated in three languages (Azerbaijani, Russian and English) will be the first and the only in Azerbaijan special resource for investigative journalists.

Zurab Delianidze aged 39 died in hospital of Gland prison of Tbilisi. According to the official version, the convict who was serving a six-years term of imprisonment for storage of drugs died from a serious disease, however, his people dispute this version. Delianidze’s wife Ketino Beridze states that her husband was quite healthy. She also said that the officials of the correctional facility informed her about her husband’s death too late.

Pronouncement of a verdict on the case of acts of terror in Georgia in 2009-2010 was deferred. The defendants’ attorneys are negotiating with Public prosecutor’s office on the conditions of procedural agreement.

On the day of the 55th anniversary of return of the Karachay people to their historic homeland after forcible deportation, ceremonies of celebration were held in the towns and districts of the republic.