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Today, about one hundred residents of the Sulak village seized an electric substation and switched on the cut off equipment. In the evening, Makhachkala residents again blocked the city streets in a protest against switching off light.

The central stadium of Tbilisi, Georgian capital, with the 80,000 capacity is overcrowded. Tens of thousands of opposition representatives and their supporters, including oppositionists from West Georgia headed by Giya Gachechiladze, well-known singer and brother of the opposition leader Levan Gachechiladze, have gathered in order to mark Georgian Independence Day and demand resignation of Michail Saakashvili, Georgian president.

The statements of presidents of Chechnya and Ingushetia on the number of militants in their republics widely differ form the data from MoI and FSS, claims Anatoli Tsyganok, head of the Military Forecasts under the Institute of Political and Military Analysis.

On May 25, a 19-year old resident of Urus-Martan district, Chechnya, was kidnapped by officers of unidentified power authorities.

Most of the 16 decisions passed by the European Court against Azerbaijan are connected with violation of the right of citizens to association, stated Chinghiz Askerov, plenipotentiary representative of Azerbaijan at the European Court, on May 22.

The Prosecutor's Office in Tbilisi has started a check on the fact of excess of power by policemen in the course of May 20 special operation to detain Giya Krialashvili, Koba Otanadze and Levan Amiridze, the persons accused of taking part in the riot at Mukhrovan military unit. This has been reported by Onice Meboniya, Otanadze's lawyer.

The explosion near the Tbilisi independent TV company "Maestro" may be connected with the documentary on the scandalous murder of Sandro Ghirgvliany, employee of the United Bank of Georgia, by policemen, claims Mamuka Glonti, Director General of the TV company.

15 Ingushetia residents detained on May 23 are only accused of illegal possession of arms and ammunition. Representatives of the republic's MoI do not confirm their connections with illegal armed formations. According to some reports, they all have been released.

At 7 a.m. today, a search has been conducted in Makhachkala in the house at 3, Siniavin Street where Adallo Aliyev, a well-known Dagestan poet, lives. Upon its completion, militiamen from Lenin district militia of the Dagestan capital have taken Gamzat, the poet's youngest son, to the militia station.

19 militants have been killed and 27 of their bases annihilated in Chechnya during one month. The losses of the power authorities amount to nine persons. These data have been cited by Colonel Roman Edilov, the republic's acting Minister of Interior.

There is no one to complain to in Ingushetia, except to the perpetrators themselves - this is why young Ingushes leave their motherland, claims Magomed Khazbiev, one of the leaders of Ingushetia opposition, citing an example of Ilez Gardanov's arrest.

The Azeri Ministry of Defense has confirmed the fact of shooting five persons to death on May 23 and stated that the reasons for the incident are being clarified. The prosecutor's office has not confirmed any reports on harassments among servicemen so far.

Lieutenant-general Vladimir Shamanov, former commander of a military group in Chechnya who until recently was chief of the main department of army troops combat training, has been appointed commander of Russian airborne troops.

The Armenian National Congress (ANC) has stated that it has incontestable evidences that the authorities of Armenia are undertaking steps towards involving regular soldiers into electoral processes, which is the roughest violation of the Electoral Code, as Vladimir Karapetyan, the ANC spokesman, has informed journalists.

On May 26, the opposition in Georgia plans to name their united leader. Consultations to this end are underway, and, probably, in the next few days such leader will be named, as reported by the headquarters of the opposition.

Today in Ingushetia, in the vicinity of Nesterovskaya village, Sunzha District, a skirmish burst out of law enforcers with suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs). Three militiamen were wounded and one militant was liquidated.

On May 22, the participants of the roundtable on interaction of the Prosecutor's Office with mass media and public organizations sent their resolution to the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, where they ask "to check the facts of non-fulfilment by the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan of its functions and give legal and disciplinary estimate to the operation of the Republic's Office."

The book named "Armenian-Turkish Relations" by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, first President of Armenia and leader of the Armenian National Congress, has come off the press. It deals with Mr Ter-Petrosyan's approaches to Armenian-Turkish relations, presented in his presentations, interviews and publications in 1989-2009.

Currently, a number of international organizations are coordinating the issue of creating, in the territory of one of the republics of Northern Caucasus, of an international civil peacemaking centre. In the near future, the project of such centre will be submitted to Presidents of Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan.

For the first time ever, the vision invalids who live in Chechnya have an opportunity to study the Koran. The Republic now has ten copies of the Moslem sacred book with relief-dot typesetting.