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In the course of the meetings in Yerevan and Baku, the co-chairmen of the Minsk OSCE Group Bernard Fussier and Yuri Merzlyakov have discussed the basic principles of Karabakh settlement with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The press service of the authorities of South Ossetia has disseminated a statement that "because of the sharply aggravated situation in the conflict zone, a consultative meeting should have taken place in Tskhinval today of co-chairmen of the South Ossetian and Georgian parts of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) Boris Chochiev and Merab Antadze."

Tonight, the Ossetian party has opened fire in the direction of Georgian villages located in the Grand Liakhva Gorge.

The protest actions against by arrest of Nadir Mekhdi Garabagi took place in Dzhulfa, Iran, and in Tabriz, the largest city of South Azerbaijan.

Litigation on the case of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister for Economic Development of Azerbaijan, is conducted with serious violations and in fact in closed regime.

Another citizen of Armenia, Ashot Tigranyan, 30, was murdered in Moscow.

The proceedings on Ulman's case continued in Rostov-on-Don. Only one of the four defendants - Alexei Perelevskiy - has appeared at the courtroom.

Ramil Ahmetgaliev explained that the pretext of charges against Dzutsev should be sought in the general tendency "to cut oxygen" to NGOs and activists.

Shakhvaled Chobanoglu, Chief Editor of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan," said that he made this decision in protest against attacks of the authorities.

European Court in Strasbourg sent a notification that the complaint on the fact of death of Rasul Tsakoev, resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, was accepted to consideration.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that the court session on the case of the employees of the Pravoberezhny ROVD (District Interior Unit) accused of criminal negligence entailing mass death of people during the act of terrorism in Beslan School was postponed till Tuesday, May 29, because of the judge's illness.

Editorial board of the "Kavkaz-Centre" has received a notification from the YouTube service about removal of the video clip laid out by the web site and demonstrating tortures in Chechnya, since it shows "much violence"; and then – an anonymous letter running that the clip was removed at the request of the Kremlin.

The residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, whose relatives perished on October 13, 2005, complain of illegal confiscation and dekitting of automobiles by the employees of power agencies.

Sultan Mirzaev, Mufti of the Chechen Republic, has admitted that within the recent months about two dozens of residents from different villages of the Republic have gone away to join the militants who hide in the mountains.

The Public Prosecutor's Office of Karelia has stopped the criminal case initiated against Alexander Potkin (Belov), leader of the Movement against Illegal Migration, for absence of essential elements of offence.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees will help Georgia to finance the program of refugees' registration and implement the state strategy aimed to improve their living standards.

A scandal around Republic's Office of Public Prosecutor continues in Chechnya.

At 7:30 p.m. a skirmish burst out at the bus station of the city of Kaspijsk (Dagestan) that has resulted in one casualty and four persons with injuries of various gravity: three occasional passers-by and a militiaman.

Another court session is over in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on the case of power officers of the Pravoberezhny ROVD (District Interior Unit).

Officers of the Ministry for National Security (MNS) made a search of the offices of newspapers "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan."