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Today, the village of Dvani was the venue of the fourth meeting of the special commission in charge of searching the dead and missing persons with participation of officials from Georgia, South Ossetia and Russia, organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

In the evening on May 11, in the village of Poltavskaya, Krasnodar Territory, in the building of the Krasnoarmeiskiy District Court, in the course of an open trial, four defendants cut their wrist veins, when their verdict was announced. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from the defendants' representatives.

At the end of the opening ceremony of the Akhmad-Hadji Kadyrov Stadium in Grozny, a football match was played by the "Stars of World Football" and the team named "Kavkaz". The match was played in two 30-minute halves. The hosts beat the visitors with the score 5:2.

On May 11, Araik Balasanyan, a tractor driver and a resident of Nagorno-Karabakh, died from a bullet at the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops. Nagorno-Karabakh blames Azerbaijani militaries for the murder of the civilian.

On Tuesday, May 10, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) considered the appeal complaint lodged by rights defender Vidadi Iskenderov head of the NGO named "Assistance to Defence of Democracy", who challenged the legality of the decision of Nizami District Court of May 2 about his 2-month-long arrest. The judge left the appeal complaint without satisfaction.

Lieutenant-Colonel Abdurashid Bibulatov, head of the RUVD (District Police Department) of the Kaitag District, into whose yard a grenade was thrown at night on May 8 a grenade was thrown, did not exclude that local officials, whom be had accused of abuse, could back the attack.

"Oil Capital of Ingushetia. Malgobek - City of Military Glory" - this is the name of the documentary, which was screened on May 10 by the "Mir" TV Channel. The authors of the film - a well-known script-writer Javanshir Danoguev and Lydia Mizieva - focused spectators' attention on biographies of five World War II veterans, residents of this city, who were among the defenders of Malgobek.

The inquiry into the criminal case, initiated against an operative officer of the criminal search of the Terek ROVD (District Interior Division), accused of beating up his suspects, has been completed.

A criminal case on the fact of beating Magomed Khanmagomedov, a correspondent of "Chernovik", in the city of Derbent has not yet been opened. According to the journalist, the people who had beaten him are known and undertake to reconcile with him. The police claim that the fact of beating is being checked.

On May 5, the former President of Ireland Mary Robinson awarded the organization named "Committee Against Torture" for the development of the idea and coordination of the work of the united mobile groups in the Chechen Republic.

In the Lagan District of Kalmykia four lower-grade pupils got drowned, said a source from local law enforcers.

The businessman from Chechnya Bulat Chagaev, who had bought the Swiss Football Club "Xamax", has sued the local teacher of literature, who expressed doubt about the origin of the businessman's money.

As reported by the spokesman of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Chechnya, the leader of the North-Caucasian underground Dokku Umarov was wounded during the pursuit of his group in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia in March 2011, and is probably now in the territory of Turkey.

A North-Ossetian lawyer was sentenced on charges of attempting to steal more than 4 million roubles from his client.

Igor Anosov, ex-federal judge of Voroshilov district court of Rostov-on-Don, is accused of taking a bribe. Public prosecutor's office of Rostov region has validated the indictment.

North-Caucasian district military court sentenced a reserve colonel of Federal Security Service convicted for kidnapping to 10 years of imprisonment.

Georgian solicitors are starting a hunger strike in front of the Parliament of the country. The goal of the action is protection of their professional rights. The notification was submitted to Mayor's office on May, 11, and the hunger strike will start on May, 17.

The oppositional Georgian Labour party of Adzharia protests against possible opening of a nudist beach in Adzharia declaring its awareness of the respective plans of the authorities. The authorities of Adzharia state that the question has been discussed but deny the fact of having taken the decision.

A presentation of a road safety campaign "Temperance at the wheel!" passed off on May, 11, in Tbilisi. It was initiated by the first lady of the country Sandra Roelofs.

Georgy Borovikov and Dmitry Demushkin, leaders of nationalists, were detained tonight in Manege Square in Moscow, where, according to law enforcers, a non-sanctioned action was planned.