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Today, the Budyonnovsk City Court will continue considering the case of Lyudmila Bogatenkova, the head of the "Prikumye Mothers" Committee, accused of a fraud. At the previous session, the court questioned several witnesses for the prosecution and defence, and listened to the information of Sergey Krivenko, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC).

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has initiated a criminal case against the top managers of the "Dagenergobank", which is suspected of falsifying financial statements.

The criminal cases opened on the massacre of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri in Armenia and Russia should be combined, advocates of the family successors assert. According to Gevorg Kostanyan, the General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, the parties are now settling the issue.

In Dagestan, relatives of Zamir Pashaev, a missing resident of Derbent, have addressed their application to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" asking to help them to establish his whereabouts. They stated that they believed he was kidnapped. The Derbent ROVD (District Interior Division) said that they were looking for Pashaev.

Nuridin Magomedov, a resident of the city of Izberbash, who was killed by return fire during a shootout with law enforcers, was known to operative agents as a militants' helper.

A session of the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, which is considering the case of ex-Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, has been postponed until May 21. The petition of his advocate Lukyan Khasabyan to challenge the membership of the court was rejected.

Zaurbek Sadakhanov, an advocate of Djambulat Dadaev's family, has lodged a complaint against an official's actions in response to the application to present for reviewing the materials of the cancelled criminal case about a special operation conducted in Grozny.

The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) reduced by six months the sentence to Zelimkhan Shapaev, a resident of the Astrakhan Region, convicted for recruiting mercenaries to Syria.

A school teacher of the school in Kutulskoe village and an unemployed local resident have been detained by law enforcers in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) zone in the Kurakh District of Dagestan.

Today, in the village of Tsebari of the Tsuntin District of Dagestan, several hundred people have attended the funeral of the policeman murdered on the Makhachkala-Buynaksk road.

Today, according to local residents, the waters of the Terek River have once again changed their colour. The Terek River got the reddish hue because of lilac water discharged to the river from a pipe not far from the Krasnogvardeisky Bridge. During May, this is at least the third case of pollution of the Terek River.

In Dagestan, investigators have launched a criminal investigation into the case of the armed attack on law enforcers in Izberbash, as a result of which the attacker was killed. He was identified as Nuritdin Magomedov.

One of the victims affected by the explosion of a mine in the vicinity of Tskhinvali died. The second victim is under the supervision of doctors.

In Vienna, the song contest "Eurovision" has determined its first finalists. Of 16 countries, only 10, including Armenia, Georgia, and Russia, will be presented in the next phase of the song contest.

In the Dagestani town of Buynaksk, all the mosque-goers detained on May 18 have been released from the GOVD (City Interior Division) at night of May 19.

Today, Makhachkala has hosted the ceremony of awarding prizes in memory of Dagestani journalist Khadjimurad Kamalov. The first place in the nomination "Journalist of the Year" went to Pavel Kanygin, a journalist of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta".

Relatives of Zamir Pashaev, a resident of Derbent, a staff member of the "RZhD" (Russian Railways), have reported on his kidnapping. According to the police, Zamir Pashaev was never brought to the Derbent GOVD (City Interior Division).

Darya Polyudova, a Krasnodar activist, has served her administrative arrest. When she left the detention facility in the Cossack village of Poltavskaya, the woman claimed she had not been given a certificate of discharge.

In Dagestani Izberbash, a man suspected of opening fire on policeman is killed.

A policeman, who was found with four gunshot wounds on the Makhachkala-Buynaksk road, died at the Makhachkala hospital.