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Eight public and human rights organizations of Sochi have declared setting up a permanent coalition and uniting efforts towards fighting corruption in power bodies. This was stated at a press conference in Sochi The head on May 7 by Mikhail Vinyukov, head of the Sochi-based "Service for Defence of Citizens' Rights and Interests".

Three militiamen and five peaceful residents suffered at explosion in the Dagestan city of Derbent. A source in local law enforcement bodies said that a civilian woman later died in hospital. The investigation believes that it was a terror act.

In the evening on May 7 a scuffle happened in the premises of the "Kavkasiya" TV Company, which started in the course of television debates on the book of young author Erekle Deisadze "Last Meeting" (by analogy to "Last Supper"). The book, according to experts, is cosmopolite and aimed against Christianity.

Forty districts of Azerbaijan suffer from flooding - the Kura River has left its banks and ruined over 300 houses, drove 2000 houses into the emergency condition, and covered 50,000 hectares of arable land with water.

The government of Armenia has approved a bill on amending the Laws "On Language" and "On General Education". Shortly the bill will be brought to consideration of the National Assembly of Armenia.

Within the celebrations of the Victory Day, the organization named "Vita" held an action in Nagorno-Karabakh: wheelchair invalids-veterans of the Karabakh War covered 12 kilometres - from the city of Shushi to the city of Stepanakert.

The third stage of the FIDE Grand Prix Series among women that passed from April 25 to May 7 in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, was won by Russian chess player Tatiana Kosintseva.

The Congress of the USA has set up an archive of life stories of those Armenians who had survived the genocide of 1915-1923 in the Ottoman Turkey. Adam Shiff, a US Congressman and one of the authors of Resolution No. 252 on recognition of Armenians' genocide was the initiator of the archive.

Today, Zviad Dzidziguri, a candidate to the post of the Mayor of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, held a briefing, where he gave his version of the incident that happened at night with billposters of electoral materials of the United National Movement.

Yesterday, on May 5, Victor Grin, Deputy General Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, signed the bill of particulars against Evgeniy Petrov, who, according to the version of the investigation, raised funds in Kazakhstan and Ukraine for militants of "Imarat Kavkaz" in Northern Caucasus. The case was sent to the Supreme Court of North Ossetia.

Today, Grigory Grabovoy, convicted for swindle, will not get at large. The Berezniki Prosecutor's Office for supervision over law enforcement in corrective establishments lodged a cassation complaint against the court decision on Grabovoy's conditional early relief (CER).

Today, in Ekazhevo village, Ingushetia, a local resident Mutaliev, an employee of the United Nations Mission, was detained on suspicion of participating in an illegal armed formation (IAF).

Copies of all the materials filmed in Azerbaijan and confiscated at the Baku airport, are in Oslo, said Norwegian film director Erling Borgen.

The incident on May 1 in the sports centre of the city of Nazran in Ingushetia, where a judo tournament was held and a security of the President of the republic shot dead one of the visitors, was treated by Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of Yunus-Bek Evkurov, as a tragic accident.

Today at night, the Federal Highway "Rostov-Baku" was blocked near Uzun-Otar village by protesters who demanded to punish the killers of Marat Satybalov, a resident of Khasavyurt. He died today in the morning in the Khasavyurt City Hospital from numerous bodily injuries received as a result of beating on May 2. Over 600 persons took part in the action.

The whereabouts of Magomedzagir Isagadzhiev, a resident of Novy Kostek village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, kidnapped in Makhachkala right from a hospital ward by unidentified armed persons, presumably, power agents, is still unknown. Today, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was reported about it by Magomedzagir's brother - Khamzat Isagadzhiev.

On 6 May, in The Geidar Aliev airport (Вaku), all documents and materials of the film director Erling Borgen, author of the films about the convicted and killed Azerbaijan journalists, were confiscated.

Residents of Astrakhan - natives of Dagestan Elmira Gadmimuratova, Zalimkhan Ahmedov, Musaldibir Magomedov, Gentar Gazichaev, Sekhran Dzhalilov, Aslavdin Shikhaliev and Ibragim Ibragimov - have addressed Presidents of Russia and Dagestan Dmitri Medvedev and Magomedsalam Magomedov with a letter asking to help in releasing their children kept at the temporary custody facility (known as "IVS") of Astrakhan since June 30, 2009.

The problem of clearing the territory of the Chechen Republic of explosives calls for a special federal programme. According to experts, the republic needs end-to-end de-mining of about 24,000 hectares.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has refused to satisfy the complaint of former militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy, who tried to challenge the decision of Primorskiy Court of Novorossisk.