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Grozny residents note a significant accumulation of military equipment and power agents in the centre of the Chechen capital, which caused blocking of streets in the morning on May 7.

According to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), Krasnodar authorities were involved in dismantling billboards with portraits of Stalin from city streets; however, officials from the Mayoralty and territorial administration state that that they had nothing to do with the action.

According to international observers, at the recent parliamentary elections in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the problems of persons with disabilities were not fully taken into account. The earlier proposals to ensure invalids' rights were not realized at the elections, said the public organization "Vita".

A Magistrate Judge has stopped the criminal case opened against the director of the state farm "Avturinsky" in the Shali District of Chechnya, who had been accused of non-payment of salaries to his employees for 18 months. The Prosecutor's Office has challenged the decision of the judge.

Patimat Begova, who left the blocked in the house during a special operation in Makhachkala, has been released from the police station, said her mother.

The persons killed in a special operation in Makhachkala have been pre-identified as Zaur Begov, Abumuslim Gasanov and Mirzabek Idrisov.

After the dance at the memorial in Novorossiysk, Ekaterina Scherbedinskaya was fired from her job, and Margarita Radetskaya, her colleague in the dance studio, was expelled from college, their relatives report.

The woman, who left the house in Makhachkala, blocked in the course of a special operation, is kept by the police, said her mother.

The active phase of the special operation in Makhachkala is over: three suspected militants have been killed.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has ruled to extend the arrest of Ilya Goryachev, the alleged organizer of the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN), and transferred the preliminary hearing of his case to May 15.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged the Azerbaijani authorities to pay the rights defender Emin Guseinov 15,000 euros of compensation for violation of his rights.

The decision to dismantle the banners with the image of Stalin in Makhachkala was caused by the discontent expressed in the blogosphere, said a source from the city administration. At the same time, according to his story, there were no official appeals to the authorities on the matter.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court has sentenced Aslan Mambetov, a former serviceman, to six years in prison for his involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF).

Most of mass media in Armenia are controlled by the authorities and used as instruments of informational influence on the society. Cases of violence against journalists are investigated reluctantly and fail to reach the courts, said public and media activists in the debate on the status of mass media in Armenia.

The case against a Karabakh soldier Arsen Bagdasaryan was fabricated in revenge for the trial of two Azerbaijani subversives, said Yuri Airapetyan, the Ombudsman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

Today, the lawyer Zaurbek Sadakhanov, who represents the interests of the family of Djambulat Dadaev, has turned to the Chief Investigating Department (CID) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) demanding to acquaint him with the materials of the criminal case, which was initiated on the special operation conducted in Grozny, but then cancelled by Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the ICRF.

The President of Georgia has presented a new staff of the Government for the approval of the Parliament; now, the sitting date of the extraordinary session of the Parliament is defined.

The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has treated the decision of Armenian authorities to release the activists of the "Constituent Parliament” as a right step.

The awarding in absentia of Barbara Goldsmith Award to the arrested Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova was held in New York on May 5.

In Azerbaijan, Rasul Jafarov's advocates have filed an appeal against his conviction, asking to acquit the rights defender.