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The motions to be moved by the defence in the case of Said Amirov, the ex-mayor of Makhachkala, will be heard only after questioning the prosecution witnesses, the court held after the prosecutor has criticized his counterparts for trying to protract the trial.

The court has sentenced Alimkhan Temirov, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, found guilty of taking part in the warfare in Syria as a member of the ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), to two years in colony.

Only 3% of Russian residents consider it necessary to allow polygamy to the country's Muslim nations, showed the opinion poll conducted by the All-Russian Centre for Studying Public Opinion (known as VTsIOM).

The defendant Ilya Goryachev, accused of organizing the extremist community "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN), has refused to plead guilty during a session at the Moscow City Court (MCC).

Law enforcers have detained a resident of Grozny on suspicion of aiding members of illegal armed formations (IAFs).

The members of the committee "Mothers of Beslan" have addressed Valentina Matvienko, the head of the Russia's Federation Council, asking to add 66 children to the list of victims of the 2004 terror act and provide them with the due social benefits.

Dagestani authorities have extended the operation of buying out illegally possessed firearms and ammunition from the local population until the end of 2015.

In Stavropol, within the construction of the territorial perinatal centre in the territory of the Taman Forest, they plan a new tree felling, the activists said.

Systematic deductions are made from salaries of doctors, teachers and policemen, while the final recipients of the deduced money are unknown, said the Chechen residents working in the budget-funded sector interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

As stated in Yerevan by leaders of district nongovernment organizations (NGOs), to improve the situation in the sphere of protection of children's rights, daytime trust centres should be set up in rural areas of Armenia.

The Department for North Ossetia of the "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Nature Supervision) has announced the results of studying the storm water manifold, which was used for discharged pollutants into the Terek River.

A court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sentenced two local residents on charges of helping the armed underground.

On June 2, the Moscow City Court (MCC) will start considering on the merits, with participation of the jury, the case of Ilya Goryachev, the alleged leader of the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists (known as BORN).

The advocate of Kurban Askandarov, a deputy imam of a mosque in Makhachkala, arrested on suspicion of illegal storage of firearms, intends to appeal against the ruling to place Askandarov behind bars.

A conflict of the youth of one of Chechen villages with local power agents broke put after three girls in hijabs were beaten up there, locals have reported, asserting that during the incident, power agents opened spontaneous fire into the air.

The Chechen leader and his retinue keep control over a multimillion flow of funds, aimed at realization of all major initiatives in the republic; it is done through the fund named after Akhmat Kadyrov and its affiliated organizations, the "Kommersant" reports.

The case files now have new videos, picturing all the suspected figurants in the crime, in particular, Zaur Dadaev and Ruslan Geremeev.

During the week from May 25 to May 31, 2015, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus claimed at least three human lives; while no wounded persons 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. All the casualties are the persons, involved, according to law enforcement bodies, in the activities of the armed underground in Dagestan.

Patients of Dagestani medical institutions have to buy the medications prescribed by doctors, patients and their relatives assert. The local Ministry of Public Health states that all the hospitals are fully provided with the necessary medicines, and each such case should be checked.

The state of emergency was introduced in the Zolsky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where 19 dwelling settlements of the municipality were struck by heavy rains.