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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Georgia to pay 33,500 euros to the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) activists, who suffered in Tbilisi in May 2012 in clashes during the action against homophobia.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime which had been in force since March 16, was cancelled in the cities of Khasavyurt and Kizilyurt and in the Khasavyurt, Kizilyurt, and Novolak Districts of Dagestan.

The motions lodged by Ali Taziev, including the appointment of an interpreter, and the provision of time for getting acquainted with his case files, have been rejected today by the North-Caucasian Military District Court.

Alexander Zakharchenko, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) has signed decrees recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the appeal lodged by the journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov against the extension of his arrest until 19 September. His defence finds this decision illegal.

Sergey Loshkaryov, a public activist from Rostov-on-Don, accused of arms dealing, has been found guilty and sentenced to two years in a colony-settlement, his advocate Leonid Novikov has reported today.

Today, in the course of the trial started at the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don in the case against Said Amirov, the defence has filed a motion for the permit to keep the former Mayor of Makhachkala and his nephew in the same cell. However, the Court has dismissed the motion.

Investigators consider an interpersonal conflict as a major version of the armed attack, in which Mikhail Razievsky, the head of the Cossack village of Akhtanizovskaya, and his assistant were wounded. The lives of the wounded men are not in danger, the Investigating Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

In Dagestan, the court has granted the claims filed by the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office to recognize extremist six materials on the Internet, which contain calls for the seizure of power, justification of terrorism, and involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs)

Being a permanent body, the new parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh should be more active in the spheres of foreign and domestic policies of the country. This opinion has been expressed by local residents. Ordinary citizens expect that the new National Assembly will pay more attention to the social problems of the population.

In Sochi, in the residential district of "Maly Akhun", local residents organized their own events dedicated to the Victory Day, including a concert under the windows of the house with several war veterans, who for health reasons could not take part in the celebrations.

In Lebanon, members of the diving club have installed a two-meter cross at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea in memory of Armenians killed during the genocide.

Today, an unidentified man made an armed attack on Mikhail Razievskiy, the head of the village of Akhtanizovskaya, Temryuk District of the Krasnodar Territory, and his assistant. Both were wounded and hospitalized.

Today, at the hearing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's case, the court listened to the last witnesses for the defence, said Fatima Tlisova, a reporter for the "Voice of America", who runs a broadcast from the courtroom in her microblog on the Twitter.

The book "100 Years After", telling about violence against Yazidis in Northern Iraq, was presented in Yerevan.

In Azerbaijan, Elvin Abdullaev, a member of the Youth Committee of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been placed into the dungeon of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), said his mother Zulfiya Abdullaeva.

Reports about forcing a 17-year-old girl to marry the boss of the Nozhai-Yurt ROVD (District Interior Division) caused resonance in Chechnya. Authorities have refuted violations of her rights, but locals claim that officials' arbitrariness in such situations is widespread in the republic.

This morning, a KamAZ vehicle has been blown up on the highway not far from the village of Nadezhda of the Stavropol Territory. According to the preliminary information, no one suffered in the explosion.

The Krasnodar Territory has started the construction of a temporary bridge between the Tuzla Spit and Tuzla Island. These works are carried out under the initial phase of the construction of a bridge between the Krasnodar Territory and Crimea.

During the week of May 4-10, 2015, at least 3 people were killed in 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.