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Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court, where Ali Taziev, a native of Ingushetia and one of the leaders of "Imarat Kavkaz", is tried, questioned six witnesses. Their testimonies referred to the explosion of a passenger bus at the bus station of Nevinnomyssk in December 2007.

This morning, in the municipality of Gamurzievo in the city of Nazran, power agents have blocked a house, where, according to their version, members of the armed underground were hiding, who opened fire in response to an offer to surrender. As a result of an armed clash two persons were killed – a wanted leader of Ingush militants Djamalele Mutaliev and a suspect of aiding militants Alikhan Ozdoev.

On May, 20, residents of the settlement of Bakurtsikhe, Gurdjaani district of Georgia, came out with an action of protest demanding from the Government compensation of the damage inflicted on the agricultural lands by natural calamity.

Founder of “Giundem Khabar” (“Daily News”) Shirin Djafari in Azerbaijan was sentenced to three years of imprisonment conditionally for accusation of nonpayment of tax, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Relatives of resident of Buinaksk Zurabek Ashurov detained for accusation of illegal storage of arms report unlawful methods of investigation and forcing him to reject the attorneys’ aid. The investigative bodies produce no comment on the process of investigation of the case.

On May, 20, chief of a department and two experts of Mayor’s office of Batumi, Georgia, were detained by Committee of Inquiry of the Ministry of Finance for accusation of misappropriation of state funds on an especially large scale and negligence.

The Tax Inspectorate cannot claim to recover the arrears from the "Union of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)"; the decision was handed down today by the Arbitration Court of the Chechen Republic.

According to updated information, in Ingushetia as a result of self-explosion committed by Said-Hussein Atnazov in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, 13 law enforcers were injured. They were delivered to the Sunzha Central Republic's Hospital, the office of the Security Council has informed.

The court has found Vladimir Poltarabatsko, a doctor of the Children Clinical Hospital of the Stavropol Territory, guilty of the death of a patient in a hyperbaric chamber, and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment, the ICRF reports today.

An IL-76 aircraft of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has flown from Moscow to Dagestan to evacuate the victims of two blasts triggered in Makhachkala.

Today, the Nariman District Court of Baku has announced the verdict to a group of believers, who were arrested in connection with the protest action on October 5, 2012, in front of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan. The court sentenced the believers to prison terms ranging from one and a half to two years.

The police have established the identity of the infringer, involved in poisoning the pupils of School No. 17 of Grozny. It appeared to be a pupil of the same school, said the press service of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The citizen of Azerbaijan, a writer Khalida Khalid and her assistant Shamkhal Guseinov have been Release from detention in Iran, said Mohsen Pakayin, the Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan.

On May 18, in Lenin Square of Volgograd, 15 people held a protest "against false media."

From mid-April in the Dagestani city of Buynaksk, unidentified persons have been distributing leaflets with threats addressed to militants' relatives, the locals report. The City Police say they know nothing about the leaflets.

The refugees from Abkhazia, who held their hunger strike outside the office of the Department for Refugees in Zugdidi, have stopped their protest, having received the authorities' promise to provide housing.

A resident of Buynaksk Gadjimurad Gasanov, whose kidnapping was earlier reported by eyewitnesses, was arrested for two months at the request of the investigating authorities of Dagestan on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons. His relatives state the presence of traces of beatings on his body.

Kamil Alikperov, 18, a trainee of the Volgograd Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), suspected of beating a 23-year-old regular soldier, will be expelled from the Academy, said a source from the training institution.

Armenia lacks political weight to ever win the Eurovision Song Contest, local political analysts believe. In any case, Armenia will never win the first place, because the country is not ready to host this contest, local economists add.

A part of the Elbrus District of Kabardino-Balkaria is under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, a source from the republic's operative headquarters has reported.