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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.

Today, lawyer Magomed Abubakarov had a meeting with his client Anzor Guchapshev, detained on suspicion of preparing a terror act in the city of Maiskiy, Kabardino-Balkaria, on May 11, 2010.

Pickets with demand of monetary compensation of the damage caused to health of citizens of the region are regularly held at the head office of this Limited Liability Company (LLC). The fifth picket was held on May 11.

Elena Bairamkulova and Magomed Abubakarov, lawyer of the Kabardino-Balkarian and Chechen Bars accordingly, have addressed Valery Ustov, head of the Investigatory Department of the Russian ICPO for the KBR (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic), and Anzor Getigezhev, Public Prosecutor of the Maiskiy District of the KBR, with their complaints that employees of the Maiskiy ROVD did not let them to Anzor Guchapshev, whose interests they represent and who was detained on the fact of a car explosion of Maiskiy.

According to updated information, in Dagestan, at shelling and blowing up of a militia motor column in the Sergokalin District, which transported employees of the republic's television broadcasting centre, eight workers of the repair team were lost, and four militiamen were wounded.

The Krasnogvardeisk District Court of Adygea has found the defendants accused in the criminal case about illegal deprivation of freedom of Vladimir Vinsha, a resident of Ladozhskaya village, Ust-Labinsk District of the Krasnodar Territory, guilty.

In the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, the prosecution petitioned to reject the request lodged by advocates and defendants to transfer the case to the Chairman of the Supreme Court for consideration by a jury.

The opening ceremony of the memorable sign in Moscow dedicated to the victims of the act of terror in Beslan, committed on September 1-3, 2004, is planned for June 1. The issues of its installation were discussed on May 12 at the working meeting of Alexander Totoonov, deputy chairman of the government of North Ossetia and republic's plenipotentiary at Russian President, with Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts.

At the press conference held in Baku at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) journalists and human rights activists Khyakimeldostu Mekhtiev and Elman Abbasov told about the bureaucrats' arbitrariness and total flouting of human rights reigning in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). Earlier, Mekhtiev and Abbasov, being regional correspondents of the IRFS, for two years had been monitoring the situation with human rights in the NAR.

Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov has declared that the executors and organizers of the Moscow bombing were identified; some of them were already killed. In his turn, Medvedev stated that terrorists deserve no quarter.

Today, the South-Ossetian authorities, through intermediary of the European Council commissioner for human rights Thomas Hammarberg, have set free the three residents of Kaspsky area, Georgia.

Next abduction of a youth has happened in Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. Representative of one of the Chechen NGO has reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that this abduction took place at around 11am this morning in Mayakovsky small town.

The militia of Krasnodar failed to present the decision about termination of the criminal case against Ms Denisova, head of the Krasnodar human rights organization "ETnIKa", as the human rights activist asserts. She is going to demand apologies and damage compensation.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has opened criminal cases against directors of 12 schools of the Vedeno District. According to the investigation, last summer each of them appropriated, by forgery, 30,000 roubles. Defendants' colleagues speak about constant extortions and small salaries of teachers. Also, they are confused by the fact that all the 12 directors are suspected of simultaneous forgery and appropriation of the same sum. The investigation continues.

As reported by local law enforcement bodies of the republic, today in the morning, when a car with militiamen was blow up in the city of Baksan in Kabardino-Balkaria, a local resident was wounded and a militiaman was contused. Yesterday, on May 11, in the evening in city of Maiskiy a car exploded: a man was killed and another one was wounded.

Activists of the youth movement of Circassians "Adyge Khasse" express their readiness to hold a rally in the context of the unsolved murder of Aslan Zhukov. This was reported by Timur Zhuzhuev, chairman of the movement.

Former militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy has expressed his intention to organize an all-Russian rally on June 12 on the problem of malversations in law enforcement bodies and the judicial system.

The lawyers who represent the interests of the relatives of Levon Gulyan, who died three years ago at the police station, are going to lodge a complaint, after passage of all the domestic instances in Armenia, to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). They promised it today at a press conference.

Today, in the city of Cherkessk, Fral Shebzukhov, adviser of the President of Karachai-Circassia was assassinated.

Moscow municipal court dismissed a cassation appeal of the advocates of former militiaman Sergey Khadzhykurbanov, who was declared not guilty in the journalist Anna Politkovskaya murder case but then sentenced to eight years in prison for extortion money from a key witness.