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Today in Georgia, the members of electoral administrations and employees of constituency and local electoral commissions all over the country simultaneously signed the Code of Ethics, having undertaken to strictly observe the electoral legislation at execution of their professional duties. In total, the document now has 48,064 signatories.

In the capital of Azerbaijan, 13 participants of today's protest action of the oppositional block "Azadlyg" were administratively punished late at night. Ten of them were sentenced to 7-10 days of administrative arrest, the rest three were fined.

Today, President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has brought Vasily Golubev, his nominee to the post of local Governor, for consideration of the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region.

As reported by the MIA of Dagestan, at night on May 15 in Khasavyurt, Dagestan, unidentified persons opened automatic fire on a car and killed two persons.

In Tbilisi, the police did not allow the lawyers holding a rally to put their tent in front of the building of the Parliament. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from the place of events, policemen arrived in several minutes after the lawyers started installing their tent and stopped their activities.

Today in capital of Azerbaijan, policemen prevented a protest action of the opposition and detained its participants.

Blogger Alaudin Dudko, known in the Internet under the nick ingushetiya_ru, is in Butyrka SIZO (pre-trial prison) as a suspect of storing drugs and explosives. Dudko treats it as provocation.

Today, the Republic of South Ossetia marks the Day of the Ossetian Language. Tskhinvali and regional capitals held celebratory actions.

Alexander Khloponin, Russian Vice-Premier and President's Plenipotentiary for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), sees no need to return the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime to the territory of the District.

From May 14 on, in capital of Armenia has launched the Second International Festival of Comic Strips. Their cartoon stories are presented by 20 well-known masters from France, Italy, Russia and the United States.

For several days already the population of Tskhinvali has been experiencing difficulties with water supply. Experts of the united on duty-dispatch service of the government of South Ossetia strain efforts to eliminate failures at the water line caused by heavy rains in the mountains.

Today, a resident of Makhachkala Aziza Akhmedulayeva approached with a letter to the heads of security forces in Dagestan, Vice-Premier of Dagestan Rizvan Kurbanov, and Commissioner for human rights in Dagestan Umupazil Omarova, to make an official investigation into preparation of special operation on May 8.

In the Garadag district court of Baku, at a trial of the earlier sentenced journalist Eynulla Fatullayev who is charged with drug possession this time, the statements of prosecution witnesses concluded. As it was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, evidences were given by the convicts of prison colony No12 where Fatullayev is serving time. Witness Orudge Bairamov has stated that in the colony Fatullayev allegedly confessed him to using drugs during his service in the army.

As stated by Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan at a press conference on April 21, now the police of Armenia use violence and torture with the aim to receive confessions.

On May 10, Georgian Ombudsman Georgi Tugushi and a number of local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) signed the memorandum "On defence and support of human rights in the area of legislative offers and constitutional proceedings".

A citizen of Georgia Gocha Beridze (from another source - Berianidze) who was abducted, according to the Georgian side's statement, from the village of Bershueti in Gori district on 13 May and handed over by South Ossetia to the Georgian authorized persons.

Ruslan Alkhanov, Chechen Interior Minister, has reported today that the terrorist who had planned to commit a terror act on May 9 was identified. According to his story, he was a resident of Dagestan.

Movlatkhan Kartoeva, mother of the four men assassinated in the course of the special operation conducted on March 2 in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, says that so far the bodies of her sons are not given out to her for funerals.

Today, the Kusar District Court of Azerbaijan has reappointed on June 1 the hearing on the case of drug dealing and use by Usman Garisov, a resident of Dagestan, who is kept in the investigatory insulator of Azerbaijan since February 10.

Despite court decisions to demolish the "Fatmei Zakhra" mosque, located in Eni Gyuneshli village, Surukhan District of Baku, after interference of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev, it will be preserved. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that this was the topic of the official statement of the Department of Moslems of the Caucasus (DMC) widespread on May 13.