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19 militants have been killed and 27 of their bases annihilated in Chechnya during one month. The losses of the power authorities amount to nine persons. These data have been cited by Colonel Roman Edilov, the republic's acting Minister of Interior.

There is no one to complain to in Ingushetia, except to the perpetrators themselves - this is why young Ingushes leave their motherland, claims Magomed Khazbiev, one of the leaders of Ingushetia opposition, citing an example of Ilez Gardanov's arrest.

The Azeri Ministry of Defense has confirmed the fact of shooting five persons to death on May 23 and stated that the reasons for the incident are being clarified. The prosecutor's office has not confirmed any reports on harassments among servicemen so far.

Lieutenant-general Vladimir Shamanov, former commander of a military group in Chechnya who until recently was chief of the main department of army troops combat training, has been appointed commander of Russian airborne troops.

The Armenian National Congress (ANC) has stated that it has incontestable evidences that the authorities of Armenia are undertaking steps towards involving regular soldiers into electoral processes, which is the roughest violation of the Electoral Code, as Vladimir Karapetyan, the ANC spokesman, has informed journalists.

On May 26, the opposition in Georgia plans to name their united leader. Consultations to this end are underway, and, probably, in the next few days such leader will be named, as reported by the headquarters of the opposition.

Today in Ingushetia, in the vicinity of Nesterovskaya village, Sunzha District, a skirmish burst out of law enforcers with suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs). Three militiamen were wounded and one militant was liquidated.

On May 22, the participants of the roundtable on interaction of the Prosecutor's Office with mass media and public organizations sent their resolution to the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, where they ask "to check the facts of non-fulfilment by the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan of its functions and give legal and disciplinary estimate to the operation of the Republic's Office."

The book named "Armenian-Turkish Relations" by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, first President of Armenia and leader of the Armenian National Congress, has come off the press. It deals with Mr Ter-Petrosyan's approaches to Armenian-Turkish relations, presented in his presentations, interviews and publications in 1989-2009.

Currently, a number of international organizations are coordinating the issue of creating, in the territory of one of the republics of Northern Caucasus, of an international civil peacemaking centre. In the near future, the project of such centre will be submitted to Presidents of Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan.

For the first time ever, the vision invalids who live in Chechnya have an opportunity to study the Koran. The Republic now has ten copies of the Moslem sacred book with relief-dot typesetting.

Ombudsman of Armenia Armen Arutyunyan has put responsibility on the State Office of Public Prosecutor for incessant violence and prosecution by law enforcement bodies of witnesses on the case about the events on March 1, 2008.

In the Nazran District of Ingushetia, 15 persons with sub-machine guns and pistols were detained, as reported by Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of Ingushetian President.

Politicians and human rights activists in Armenia believe that the amnesty of political prisoners will take the authorities out of the deadlock.

On May 28, the Day of First Republic, President of Armenia will make a statement on announcing amnesty to those who were sentenced under the case on events in March 1, 2008, in Yerevan. This was stated to journalists by Ovik Abramyan, Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia, in his answer to the question about any possible amnesty to opposition's activists.

The Nazran Court of Ingushetia has started considering on the merits the criminal case on the murder of Magomed Evloev, former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru".

At night on May 21, in the Southwest District of Yerevan another clash took place between the members of pre-election offices of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and the Party "Prospering Armenia" (PA).

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case on the fact of death of a newborn in one of the hospitals in the Stavropol Territory.

In the opinion of Dmitri Medoev, Plenipotentiary Ambassador of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation, opposition exists in the republic, but all of them are in Tskhinvali; however, those people who hold actions in Moscow are not opposition.

On May 21, Usman Amaev, Senior Inspector of Russian Prosecutor's Office for Dagestan, signed a statement to open a criminal case against a militiaman on the fact of injuring Gasan Baisultanov, a resident of Khasavyurt, and murdering his wife Saniyat Magomedova, who was in her fourth month of pregnancy.