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As a result of a heavy rain, which fell in the evening on May 17 in the eastern part of Georgia, a bridge was destroyed, crops were damaged and ground floors of houses were flooded. Three thousand people have power outage. There are no casualties and victims.

On May 18, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, chaired by Judge Ramella Allakhverdieva, began considering on the merits the criminal case against Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the "Khural" newspaper.

In the Sunzha District of Chechnya, under unascertained circumstances, Isa Magamaev, the 24-year-old resident of the village of Assinovskaya, disappeared. In the evening of May 12, the young man left to visit his relatives, residing in the Cossack village of Sleptsovskaya of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, and he never returned home. Police joined search of disappeared man.

On May 17, the Constitutional Court of Ingushetia granted the lawsuit filed by Djambulat Ozdoev, the Republic's Ombudsman, connected with defence of social rights of repressed persons and persons recognized affected by political repressions.

Relatives of the supporters of Alla Djioeva, ex-candidate for the position of the President of South Ossetia, convicted in North Ossetia, appealed to Leonid Tibilov, the President of the Republic, asking for help in their release.

At the attempt committed in the city of Neftekumsk on Arslan Rizvanov, the activist of Muslims of the Stavropol Territory got six gunshot wounds. This was reported by the Spokesman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims in the Stavropol Territory. Arslan Rizvanov's health condition remains grave.

Power agents did not allow representatives of the Commission on adaptation of IAF members to the alleged militants blocked in Makhachkala. Negotiations of the members of the Commission with power agents did not succeed.

A solo picket, demanding dismissal of Anatoly Pakhomov, City Mayor, was held in front of the Sochi administration. According to Irina Brovkina, who held the picket, about 500 signatures of citizens for the dismissal of the Mayor were collected.

In the criminal case against Sharaputdin Dibirmagomedov, the resident of Dagestan, the indictment under eleven Articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was approved. This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the republic.

Names of 70 journalists, killed during performing their professional duties in 2011, were memorized in the Journalism Museum in Washington. The list includes the names of Rafiq Tagi, the Azerbaijani journalist, and Khadjimurad Kamalov, the editor of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft) in Dagestan.

In Azerbaijan, number of hunger-strikers demanding to release from prison the oppositionists, recognized by the international human rights organization "Amnesty International" as "prisoner of conscience", increased from 12 to 19. Convicted oppositionists are on hunger strike at prisons, and their free supporters are also on hunger strike.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) conducts investigation into the case of beating in Elista of a man detained by policemen. The 47-year-old resident of the capital of the republic died from injuries.

The Special Investigatory Service of Armenia conducts investigation at the complaint of journalist Ruben Grdzelyan about his beating by Movses Manrikyan, the prosecutor on supervision over the lawfulness of investigation in the Kotaik Region.

Protest action under the slogan "Down with Homophobia!", organized by the Georgian NGO "Identity", ended in the centre of Tbilisi by confrontation of the participants of the protest action with representatives of clergy and the public organization "Union of Orthodox Parents".

Police officers detained a contract soldier, suspected of involvement in murder of a Turkish man committed in Rostov-on-Don and motivated by ethnic hatred. This was reported by Stanislav Kovalyov, First Deputy Head of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Rostov Region.

In Armenia, the today's court session on the case of the death of contract officer Artak Nazaryan in summer of 2010, made a decision to postpone the process for May 22 because absence of witnesses. The victim party believes that witnesses are being pressured.

Today, in Baku, the third for the last week protest action in front of the Iranian Embassy in Azerbaijan was held. During the picket, like during recent protest actions, the participants demanded to stop anti-Azerbaijani provocations in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Embassy responded to the demonstrations, and it stated that the rallies represented part of Western community's policy in the region.

Today, the Kirov District Court of Astrakhan, which considers a lawsuit filed by Oleg Shein, ex-candidate for the position of the City Mayor, against the City Election Commission to invalidate the election of the Mayor, began to examine video records provided at the request of the Court by the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation from 160 precinct election commissions (PECs).

Relatives and friends of Khava Torshkhoeva, the seriously ill resident of Ingushetia, appealed with an open letter to Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of the republic, in which they claim about the threat of Khava Torshkhoeva's life, since the Republic's Ministry of Health does not give drugs to be received by the women. The Ministry refers to complexity of the procedure for procurement of the drugs.

On May 15, in Volgograd, in Lenin Square, a rally was held, at which gardeners of the gardening association "Gourmand" urged officials to fulfil the law on the summer cottage amnesty adopted by the State Duma and to legalize the summer cottage land plots, which were allocated to the people more than twenty years ago.