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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."

Within the recent three weeks, the Tallinn-based human rights organization "Information Centre for Human Rights" has helped people who addressed through the only Estonian telephone "hot line" for the victims of mass disorders caused by the Bronze Soldier dismantling in filing 60 complaints against the police actions.

Russia is toughening its struggle against extremism. The State Duma has passed amendments to the Criminal Code concerning this sort of crimes in the first reading.

Alexander Petrov, deputy director of the Russian Representative Office of the NGO Human Rights Watch, has explained how the Strasbourg Court builds its relations with the Russian Federation and its citizens.

The newspapers "Gyundalik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan" will restart this week, editor Shakhveled Chobanoglu told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The defence of Roman Koyushev, a resident of the Predgorny District of Stavropol Territory, convicted for murdering Imam of Kislovodsk mosque, has declared their intention to appeal against the verdict.

Next week, the Azerbaijani Commission for Complaints of the Council for Press will consider the application of Ali Akhmedov, deputy chair and executive secretary of the Party "Eni Azerbaijan" (PEA), concerning a publication in the "Azadlyg" newspaper, which "had encroached on the honour of the President." Aflatun Amashov, Chairman of the Council for Press, informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.

Shelling of the dwelling districts of the capital of South Ossetia continues, one peaceful resident was wounded, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the place of events in Tskhinval.

Today, the employees of the Department for Tax Crimes under the Department of Internal Affairs of the South-West Administrative District of Moscow have confiscated documents from the central office of the Russian Red Cross (RRC).

Late at night on May 18, the editorial board of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper was visited by the workers of the Fire Fighting Service of the Ministry for Emergencies.

"Blaming extremists and sending 'Alpha' or OMON fighters against them is senseless. It means fighting ideas and thoughts. But you cannot kill an idea," Candidate of Law Arslan Kurbanmagomedov, Assistant Professor of the Makhachkala Branch of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, has declared.