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Today, the Stavropol Territory has a day of mourning over the victims of the terror act committed on May 26. In the whole territory, banners and flags are half-mast; TV Companies and culture establishments were recommended to cancel their entertaining broadcasts and events.

As reported by Valery Ustov, head of the Investigatory Department for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office), as of today the KBR is under the special complex preventive operation (SCPO) regime.

Residents of the flooded areas of Azerbaijan who have lost their houses as a result of the calamity report that they received no compensation. Many of them have to live in the open air.

The Board of Atamans of the All-Great Don Army has addressed the Cossack population of the Don River area to be active at the census planned in October 2010.

The participants of the conference "Freedom of Conscience and Faith" held on May 27 in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, emphasized the need of consolidation of the society before the terrorist threat.

On May 27, in the southwest of Chechnya, a self-made explosive item was triggered and wounded two shepherds who were tending their sheep.

Inspectors are studying several versions of the terror act committed in the centre of Stavropol on May 26, in particular, they think that it could be a militants' action or some commerce-based "showdown".

On 27 May, in front of South Ossetia Embassy in Moscow, relatives and colleagues of three Russia's citizens that had been arrested in Tskhinvali, hold a series of single pickets. In protestors' opinion, Russia's citizens are being victimized in the republic.

On May 26, Georgia's Independence Day, the memorial to heroes who died for the freedom and unity of the Georgian state was opened in the Square of Heroes in Tbilisi.

Today early in the morning, a self-made explosive item was triggered in a suburb of the city of Malgobek, Ingushetia; nobody has suffered.

Today, Buddhists celebrate the most important anniversary of their religious calendar - the birthday, enlightenments and departure to Parinibbana of Buddha Shakyamuni. This year this day falls on May 27.

Among victims of Stavropol terror act of 26 May, 19 persons are in a grave and extremely grave condition, the Russian Federation Prosecutor's Office liaison department officer reported. Death toll hits 7, wounded - 45.

Azerbaijan faces serious problems with gender mainstreaming and women's rights protection. That was the key note of the press conference on 26 May given by PACE delegation participated in Council of Europe Conference of Minister members "Gender equality: bridging the gap between de jure and de facto equality" that was held on 24-25 May in Baku.

Today the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on the case "Hutsaev and others against the Russian Federation", found Russia guilty of illegal detention and subsequent disappearance of three inhabitants of Chechnya.

During the period after May 15, 2009, when a suicide-bomber for the first time blew him up in Chechnya after cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, and until today 20 terror acts have been committed by 22 suicide-bombers in "hot" regions of Northern Caucasus - Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.

The Leningori District of South Ossetia runs no construction of houses for the refugees who arrived in the 1990s to live in North Ossetia, since there is no need of it, as Alan Dzhussoev, head of the district, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Employees of the Centre of Islamic Medicine (CIM) are raiding, together with local law enforcers, districts of Chechnya aiming to reveal people who present themselves as healers and fortune-tellers. About 40 persons of this sort have been detained within a fortnight.

On Monday, May 24, the A. Sakharov Museum and Public Centre in Moscow hosted a presentation of the memorial collection of lawyer Stanislav Markelov assassinated in January 2009; the collection includes his main articles, interviews and presentations.

The number of victims of the explosion in Stavropol is on the rise. According to the latest data, six persons were killed and 46 more were injured.

On May 26, the Garadag District Court of Baku continued considering the case of earlier convicted journalist Einullah Fatullaev, this time accused of illegal drug storage. The session heard the results of three different examinations.