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The TV Company named "The Public Broadcaster of Georgia" (PBG) has hired the German company named "GfK Group" to conduct exit polls at the election of Tbilisi Mayor on May 30.

The international organization in defence of the press "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) has expressed its concern of the attempts of the government of Azerbaijan to introduce control over the Internet before the parliamentary elections to take place in November 2010.

Today, the head of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) of Dagestan has announced that Teimur Gulmetov and Sadula Chiruglanov, who were killed on May 9 during a special operation in Derbent, were organizers of the terror act on May 7 at the Derbent railway station; while the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reported detention of five militants' helpers.

The presentation of historical research works prepared by senior school pupils on the topic "Person in History. Russia - 20th Century", which was held on May 4 in Moscow, was attended by pupils from different regions of the Russian Federation.

Gegam Bagdasaryan, President of the Stepanakert Press Club and editor-in-chief of the analytical monthly "Analyticon", made an appeal addressed to the heads of mass media and journalistic organizations of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh urging them to stop their hostile actions in the information domain starting from the midnight on May 12, 2010, - the day of the armistice concluded between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

The NGO named "Transparency International" (TI) has presented in Brussels its new report assessing the measures undertaken by the authorities of Georgia under the action plan within the European Policy of Neighbourhood.

On May 8, OMON (Special Militia) fighters illegally rushed in Makhachkala into the apartment of Albina Magomedova, a member of the board of the regional public association "Pravozaschita" (Legal Assistance). This was reported by the leaders of the association; while the MIA of Dagestan failed to explain the reason of the special operation.

The Tbilisi City Court has ruled to punish seven participants of the incident in the premises of the "Kavkasiya" TV Channel that happened in the evening on May 7 by two months of pre-trial custody.

Three local residents suffered in a group fight that burst out on May 9 between residents of two villages in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, the local ROVD (District Interior Divisions) reports.

Today, a three-day visit to Baku of Stephen Allen, the UNICEF regional director for Central and Eastern Europe and CIS, begins. The aim of his trip is to assess the results achieved by the government of Azerbaijan in children's health, education and protection.

Today, relatives of Ruslan Mutaliev, who was detained on May 7 in Ingushetia, have addressed human rights organizations with a request to puzzle out the situation.

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.