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This morning, two armed men have attacked a checkpoint in Grozny. It was initially reported that one of the attackers committed a suicide bombing and as a result, one policeman was killed and four others were wounded. The second attacker was killed by the policemen. Later, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) denied the report about the death of the policeman and reported on six injured policemen.

Vasily Kuzmin, an invalid and a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, for more than 15 years lives in unacceptable housing conditions; however, the Mayoralty refuses to put him on the list of the persons in need of improving housing conditions, say his relatives and the head of the local NGO, a lawyer Gayane Kocharyan. The veteran himself complains that officials remember about him only on the Victory Day, but render no real help.

Baku accumulates armed forces in Nakhichevan with the aim to involve Turkey into conflict with Armenia. This opinion was voiced by Armenian experts. However, according to them, Turkey is expected to provide only indirect support, since NATO will keep the country from direct intervention in the conflict.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has started to consider the complaint filed by Adilgerei Omarov, an advocate from Khasavyurt, against law enforcers, who searched his house in 2008. This was reported by an advocate representing the interests of the Omarov family.

During the week of May 2-8, 2016, at least four persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

An Azerbaijani soldier has been killed in a shootout in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Religious leaders have decided to get into power on the background of mistrust of Dagestani residents to the leaders of the republic. This opinion was voiced in the course of discussion by participants of the project "Games of Journalists". According to the journalists, on the eve of the elections to the Parliament, religious leaders use the "People against Corruption" Party as a springboard.

Investigators do not seek to reveal all the circumstances of fatal injuring of Nikolai Chistyakov, the 72-year-old former chief narcologist of the Stavropol Territory. He was fatally injured as a result of the conflict with a female police officer. This was reported by relatives of the deceased doctor.

In Azerbaijan, unidentified persons intimidate members of the electoral headquarters of Igbal Agazade, the leader of the "Umid" (Hope) Party. According to members of the Party, threats are also voiced against voters of the 90th Agdash electoral precinct, in which Igbal Agazade was nominated.

Azerbaijan accumulates military vehicles in Nakhichevan. This was reported to journalists in Yerevan by Koryun Nagapetyan, Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence, National Security and Internal Affairs.

The investigators dealing with the case of Mardiros Demerchyan, a builder of Olympic facilities in Sochi, have conducted a repeated forensic examination without notifying him and without his participation – a gross violation of the norms of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure, said Alexander Boichenko, a Demerchyan’s advocate.

This morning, in a forest of the Khiv District of Dagestan, a group of policemen was shelled, local law enforcement bodies report.

Vadim Sultanov, an employees of the Centre to Combat Extremism (known as the “E” Centre) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who was killed in 2011, has been was posthumously awarded an order. Sultanov was an honest cop; and his involvement in the "Black Hawks" grouping was false, said his colleagues, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered to repair roads and tower complexes, supply gas and build mosques in the Sharoy District of Chechnya within three months. He announced these plans at a meeting with residents of the village of Kenkhi, one of whom – Ramazan Djalaldinov – had complained to Putin about corruption in the district.

At least 180,000 natives of Dagestan took part in the Great Patriotic War (GPW, or WWII elsewhere in the world), of whom 90,000 perished in battles, Renat Abdulkerimov, representing the organization "Dagestan", has stated said at the roundtable "Contribution of Different Nations to Common Victory".

Four Chechen judges, from whom Ramzan Kadyrov demanded “a voluntary resignation”, did it, said a source from the republic's Supreme Court (SC). The locals, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe that the judges were forced to obey, because they occurred in the focus of a conflict of interests involving Kadyrov’s retinue.

In the evening on May 6, those residents of Novorossiysk, who protested against the construction of a quarry in a close vicinity to their houses, were left without gas supply. Then, after their threat to block the highway, the supply was resumed.

Anzor Shibzukhov, an employee of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), accused of aiding militants, was tortured during the investigation, said his advocate.

Law enforcers have planted a grenade and drugs on Timur Temirov, his relatives assert. Temirov himself is detained. His family has appealed to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Mozdok District of North Ossetia asking to conduct a check.

In Sochi, policemen and officials of the City Mayor's Office have exceeded their official power while dispersing a picket in the Lazarevskoe District and should be prosecuted. This is stated in the appeal filed by Elena Nikitina, an organizer of the picket, to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).