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Georgian lawyers have suspended their protest action held in front of the building of the parliament of Georgia for ten days. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by lawyer Shalva Khachapuridze, the organizer of the action.

Three employees of the Department of the Federal Correction Service (known as "UFSIN") for Kabardino-Balkaria were killed in a shell, one more was wounded.

Last Friday, on May 21, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan organized the first tour of a group of local journalists to the contact line of armed forces of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Terter direction.

Ingushetia has elected its new representative of its legislative body to the Council of Federation - Ahmet Palankoev, 47, an entrepreneur and patron of arts.

Russian rights defenders are concerned of the state of health of blogger Alaudin Dudko, known in the Internet under nickname ingushetiya_ru, who was arrested in Moscow.

President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has signed a decree announcing May 27 to be the national holiday "Birthday of Buddha Sakya-Muni".

On May 21, two bombs were found under the oil pipeline "Shirvan-Beyukshor" in Garadag District of Baku.

On May 21, Adygea held actions dedicated to the 146th anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War.

It is supposed that an RGD grenade was blown up in the evening on May 21 in a grocery shop located in Ladozhskaya village, Ust-Labinsk District, Krasnodar Territory. As a result, a woman-shop assistant was killed, and two more persons were wounded.

On May 21, at the session of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, where the murder case of Farid Babayev, a public figure, a human rights activist and the leader of the regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, is considered, the jurymen found Rasil Mamedrizaev guilty and at the same time asked for indulgence for him.

Currently, the process of adoption of Russian children by foreign citizens is de facto suspended until conclusion of bilateral international contracts. This was stated to journalists on May 20 by Pavel Astakhov, Plenipotentiary (Ombudsman) for Children's rights at the President of Russia, who paid a working visit to Nalchik.

The Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) and the "Electrozink" Factory, located in Vladikavkaz, have signed an amicable agreement. The Factory has agreed to carry out nature-protection measures.

Yesterday, on May 20, at the session on the case about liquidation of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP), the leaders of this public organization left the hall of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria in protest. The demarche was caused by rejection of the petition demanding to hold an independent expert's examination of the analytical report "On Situation with Balkars in the KBR (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic)", which had caused the pretext for initiation of the criminal case.

In Ingushetia, employees of the largest and the only state-own motor transportation enterprise of the republic - State Unitary Enterprise (SUE) "Ingushautotrans" are on strike. It was announced because of salary debts.

Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the human rights NGO "Mashr", said that Khamzat Tsechoev, a resident of the village of Plievo, who was detained at night on May 19 in Ingushetia, is accused of keeping weapons. Tsechoev is Mutsolgov's driver.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan will continue considering the murder case of Farid Babaev, leader of the regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, a public figure and human rights activist; the parties' oral statements will take place.

Singularity and novelty of the meeting of activists of socio-political organizations with President Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin was that human right activists of the North Caucasus were communicating directly with the president for the first time, and moreover, "there were no pre-registration for making a speech - it took only to raise your hand." This opinion was expressed by head of Kabardino-Balkaria Human Rights Center Valery Khatazhukov who participated in the meeting.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, in Baksan, an official spokesman for the Investigations Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office Vladimir Markin informed, "At around 10.20 pm two unidentified men made numerous shots pointblank from guns at the deputy prosecutor of the Baksan district, who died on the spot."

Agreement between the governments of Abkhazia and the Russian Federation on mutual visa-free travel, which the parliament of Abkhazia has ratified today, envisages a visa-free travel of citizens of both republics for up to 90 days, including holders of both foreign and internal passports and sailor IDs, as well as children below the age of 14.

As reported by law enforcement bodies of the republic, on May 19 in the Gudermes District of the Chechen Republic, power agents detained an officer of the patrol-post service who transported a large batch of weapons and ammunition in his car. A check was initiated on the fact.