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Seven families of Chechen refugees from Pankisi Gorge, Georgia, have started a hunger strike in Tbilisi.

The announcement of the adjudication on the case of murdering Abubekir Kurdzhiev, Imam of the mosque of the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) has been postponed till May 18, 11:00 a.m. Moscow time.

The cause of explosion in a garbage dump was detonation of a 1.5-litre plastic bottle filled with hexogen, sources at law enforcement bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria have informed.

In Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, in Komintern Street, at 9 o'clock in the morning, when the service car of Omari Alilov, head of logistics department of Makhachkala Branch of the North-Caucasian Railways (NCRW), was on its route, a strong explosion burst out, as a result of which Mr. Alilov who was driving the car got heavy injuries of his both legs.

The authorities of Azerbaijan are going to release the arrested journalists, in particular, Einullah Fatullaev and Sakit Mirza.

Svetlana Gannushkina, a well-known human rights activist, believes that the young people detained and taken to custody in connection with a mined car in Profsoyuznaya Street in Moscow are innocent.

Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, thinks that Azerbaijan is breaking the diplomatic ethics, and, therefore, it is senseless to speak about any progress in the negotiations on settling the conflict.

The South-Ossetian part of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) for settling the Georgian-Ossetian conflict has disseminated a statement, which asserts that Mr. Sanakoev "has no real power."

The Turkish TV-Channel "Kanal Turk" condemns the lawsuit against Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of the "Eni Musavat" newspaper.

The Programme of the European Commission and the Council of Europe (CE) aimed to reduce the flow of complaints to the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) from Russia implies non-acceptance of the so-called insignificant cases caused by minor offences.

It has become known to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that today the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has started a preliminary session on the case of Ingush militiamen.

Tomorrow, Armenia will hold parliamentary elections.

The case of the three heads of the Pravoberezhny ROVD, accused of criminal negligence that has entailed mass death of people during the terror act in School No. 1 of Beslan, can be stopped under the amnesty declared by the State Duma.

Today, South Ossetia has introduced restrictions on motor traffic in road sections near Georgian villages Tamarasheni-Kurta-Kekhvi and in the area of Ergneti village.

"Today, the lawyers of the Inter-Regional Human Rights Association "AGORA" have addressed Sergey Golovanyov, Public Prosecutor of Stavropol Territory, with a demand to hold investigation and initiate a criminal case in relation to Mikhail Serkov, Ataman of the Stavropol Cossack District of the Tersk Cossack Army, for his public extremist statements.

On Friday, May 11, the Golovinskiy Court of Moscow will announce its decision on the petition of the Public Prosecutor's Office asking to transfer the complaint lodged by Manana Aslamazyan, head of the Foundation "Educated Media" (assignee of the "Internews"), on illegal confiscation of documents from her organization to another court.

The three Georgian students released in Abkhazia are going to file a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights and to protest against their detention.

At the court session on the case of Beslan ROVD (District Interior Unit) commanders (North Ossetia), the defendants have lodged a petition that the amnesty should be applied to them, as to the militiamen who operated inside a zone of counterterrorist operation.

Today, the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) has blamed Russia for disappearance and murder of a young man from Chechnya, the "Legal Initiative for Russia," organization representing the interests of the victim's relatives, has stated today.

At its today's session, the Parliament of Georgia has passed a decision to create a temporary administrative unit in South Ossetia.