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The play "In Your Hands" about "Nord-Ost" which failed to be staged in Dagestan after the first show may be staged at the local theatre in Beslan, North Ossetia.

The Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office for the Republic of Dagestan has cancelled its previous statement not to initiate a criminal case against Rizvan Rizvanov, Director General of the Limited Liability Company "Editorial Board of the Weekly 'Nastoyascheye Vremya' (Present Time)".

Irina Sarishvili plans to bring the suit of Giorgadze supporters to the Supreme Court of Georgia and, in parallel, to the European Court for Human Rights. This has become known after the Tbilisi Court of Appeal failed to satisfy the claim lodged by supporters of Igor Giorgadze, ex-Minister for Security of Georgia and leader of the "Justice" opposition party.

Today, Magomed Isaev, Judge of the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Dagestan, made a decision to satisfy the suit of the Dagestan Ministry for Property and Land Relations to the Regional Public Foundation "Charitable Women's Hospital" and ruled that the Hospital shall vacate the currently occupied premises.

The RIA "Novosti" has reported today, with reference to the Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, that four residents of the city of Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan Regions), accused of setting up an extremist community, were arrested for propaganda of anti-Semitism.

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has passed a decision on the case of Khadizhat Kaplanova, a resident of Chechnya, obliging the Russian Federation to pay 72,000 euros to her as material compensation for loss of her relatives in Grozny.

Georgia is transporting weapons, POL (petroleum, oil and lubricants), foodstuffs and other material and technical means to the upper section of the Kodor Gorge, and deploys national armed forces there. This is reported in today's comment of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs asserts that Yamadaev brothers' participation in kidnapping and subsequent murdering Yusup and Yunus Arsamakovs has been evidenced by a former fighter of the "Vostok" (East) special battalion.

In Kislovodsk, Gennady Popkov, leader of the city branch of the NGO named "The Union of Pensioners of Kislovodsk", was dismissed from his main work at the city hospital "for alleged absenteeism", as the victim himself told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In Makhachkala, a picket was held at the building of Dagestan government by members of the local organization of Chernobyl accident liquidators of the Buinak District, who demanded that the court ruling on issuance of housing certificates were enforced.

This year, Stavropol Territory has received only 34 housing certificates for forced migrants, while today's waiting list comprises 1500 persons.

If necessary, Russia will defend its citizens living in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Sergey Mironov, Speaker of the Federation Council, has stated today, having noted that Russia has also the right to apply force, if required.

The investigation made by Anton Vernitskiy, journalist of Channel One, in his film "Plan Kavkaz", shown on April 22 and dedicated to the attempts in early 1990s of external forces, including Baku and Ankara, to separate Chechnya from Russia, has caused bewilderment in Azerbaijan.

Abkhazia has denied the news about the attack on the office of the branch of the Danish Council on Refugees in the Galskiy District of Republic that was undertaken today at night, according to the information of Georgian TV Companies.

In the Imereti Bay, Old Ritualists managed to make a photo of the official who had provoked a collision with militiamen. According to the updated information, the name of the girl who suffered on April 23 during the collision with militia and OMON is Anna Tkachenko.

By the ruling of the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia, Mack Shannon Lie, a US citizen, who has broken the sojourn regulations of the Russian Federation, was fined and expelled from the country.

In many countries of the world, where Armenians live, actions were held on April 24-25 dedicated to the memory of the victims of 1915 Armenian genocide.

Today, Rostov-on-Don will mark another anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The mournful meeting will take place near the city's monument to tragedy victims.

At the meeting with Dennis Kief, GB's Ambassador to Georgia who arrived to Sukhumi on Friday, prime minister of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab expressed his surprise with the negative reaction of the leading European countries, who criticised Russia's lifting up of economic sanctions against Abkhazia.

Matthaus Jorsch, a member of the delegation of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has stated that presentation a NATO membership plan to Georgia will depend on the fairness level of the forthcoming parliamentary elections.