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Russia's FSB border service administration in Republic of Abkhazia has called provocative the statements made by the Georgian side on involvement of Russian military in the incident, which killed one officer of Abkhaz customs and injured another two.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov denies his involvement in abductions and murder occurring in the republic and declares that "the only enemies he recognizes and intends to 'annihilate' are the enemies of Islam, to whom he refers the Wahhabi insurgents who are hiding in forests. Also, Kadyrov is convinced that Sharia is above the laws of the Russian Federation.

This night, a liquor store in Khasavyurt (Dagestan) was taken under fire. The sales assistant got injured.

On 8 April, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) passed a judgment on the case "Mrs.Abdurashidova against Russia", having acknowledged that the Russian Federation was responsible for the numerous violations of the applicant's rights. This is the first suit gained in the ECHR by the resident of Dagestan", the Human Right Center "Memorial" informed today.

Today, in Georgia, the nongovernmental organization (NGO) named "The Human Rights Centre" held a press conference, where it has presented its post-election report "General violations and disputable actions detected by observers on May 30, 2010, in Svanetia and Kakhetia".

Kindergartens reduction in Georgia contributes to the spread of diseases among children and the preschool education degradation. This was the key note of the action organized by the Educators and Scientists Trade Union of Georgia.

Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya try to identify the young man, who was killed yesterday, on May 31, in the Oktiabrskiy District of Grozny and who, as power agents believe, was going to commit a self-suicidal act of terrorism. The information about liquidation of the failed suicide-bomber gives rise to doubts among local human rights activists.

The Monument to the people killed in the Beslan terrorist attack in 2004 was unveiled today in the downtown of Moscow. The monument was designed by the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli. His project was selected from more than ten anonymous proposals.

On May 28 in Vladikavkaz, law enforcers detained two residents of Ingushetia - Anzor Chaniev and Idris Yandiev. Their relatives are sure that the detention was illegal and state that at the militia the young men were exposed to violence, runs the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The Georgian side has blamed the Russian military for the incident in the Gali district of Abkhazia on the border with Georgia, where exchange of fire took place today.

The commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has scarified the situation with human rights in Northern Caucasus. A draft resolution on Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan will be brought to the June PACE session.

An unidentified explosive device was triggered in one of the cafes in the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt, the GOVD (City Interior Division) has reported.

Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia Elias II visited in prison Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, the son of the first President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who had been sentenced to 9.5 years of imprisonment. Keti Bekauri, Tsotne's advocate, supposes that the Patriarch asked the convict to stop his hunger strike.

Askhad Mamyshev, 18, who was injured in the terror act on May 26 at the Stavropol House of Culture, died last night, as reported by the city rescue service. Thus, the death toll of the terror act makes eight persons already.

The "International Society of Fair Elections and Democracy", the "Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia" and the Movement "Multinational Georgia", which monitored the course of local elections in Georgia, lodged, by the moment of the end of voting, 102 claims to district and constituency electoral commissions.

Today in Rostov-on-Don activists of oppositional organizations gathered to a rally in support of Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which was not sanctioned by the authorities. Law enforcers did not detain the protesters.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has ruled on liquidation of the public organization of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People of Kabardino-Balkaria (BEBP), due to its extremist activities. The representatives of organizations are going to appeal against this decision at the Supreme Court of Russia.

Today, the police of Armenia prevented a sit-in protest action, which was planned by activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) in the Freedom Square of Yerevan. Policemen accompanied by "red berets" removed from the square to a police station not only activists of the opposition, but also journalists. The total of detainees was 15 persons.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan held its last session on the murder case of Farid Babaev, a public figure, a human rights activist and the leader of the regional branch of the "Yabloko" party. The prosecution asked for the convicted murder 16 years of colony with a strict regime. The judge will find the final verdict for Rasil Mamedrizaev on Thursday, June 3.

Aggravation of situation in Kabardino-Balkaria; resonant terror act in Stavropol; elections to local governments in Georgia, - look these and other events in the review of the week from May 24 to May 30, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".