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At least 13 persons perished and over 100 got wounded during the period from April, 30, till May, 6, as a result of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus. These are the totals of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Law enforcers have drawn up administrative protocols against participants of the sit-in strike "We didn't elect him!" – members of the local branch of the "Yabloko" Party Alexei Mandrigel and Dmitry Shestochenko. At first, the activists were several times poured with water by means of special equipment, and then they were accused of deliberate damaging their passports with water.

At night on May 7, in Sochi, at the intersection of Pervomayskaya Streets and Kurortny Avenue, trees were cut down trees in the public green area. They plan to build a multi-story apartment building instead.

As a result of the earthquake that happened this morning in the Zagatala District of Azerbaijan, 15 persons asked for medical care, said Mamedrasul Teyubov, the head of the outpatient department of the central district hospital. According to the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), about 60 houses were ruined in the villages of Mukhakh, Zeyem and Bazar.

The elections held in Armenia were in line with international standards; and minor violations that occurred during the voting had no effect on the outcomes, said the members of the observation mission of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly and the ICES.

Gadjimurad Saidov, an investigator of the Botlikh Inter-District Investigatory Committee, protracts the criminal investigation into the death of the 16-year-old Imadibir Makhiev, who was shot at by Zaur Djalilov, a policeman of the Akhvakh ROVD (District Interior Division), said Denga Makhiev, the casualty's uncle. The investigator referred to overload with work, but promised to investigate the case in full.

Zarema Balabekova, a resident of the Dagestani city of Derbent, fears that law enforcers try to fabricate a criminal case against kidnapped husband Zhafar Khanmagomedov. This was stated by activists of the Dagestani Regional Organization (DRO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy). She addressed the DRO on May 6.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has checked retail outlets located in the territory of the republic, which resulted in suspension of more than one hundred such entities only in Grozny. It was found that many entrepreneurs failed to officially hire their staff; and some shops were built without official permission of the authorities.

About 150 supporters of the opposition tried to hold a protest action against violations of the freedom of assembly in front of the Baku Mayoralty. The police squeezed the protesters away from the building and forced them to disperse.

Bloggers of Northern Caucasus suggest working out a Charter of a responsible blogger whose participants would take the responsibility to abstain from offence on ethnic, religious of race grounds. This motion was advanced at a meeting of the bloggers of Northern and Southern Caucasus.

About 50 people gathered at an oppositional meeting “For honest and legitimate authority” held on May, 6, in Rostov-on-Don. The main slogan of the action was “Freedom to political prisoners!”.

Russia must stop arbitrariness against journalists and investigate the murder of founder of “Chernovik” newspaper Hajimurad Kamalov committed in Dagestan, Mark Toner, official representative of the United States Department of State, declared at a press conference in Washington timed to World Press Freedom Day.

On May 4, the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala upheld the demand of the Prosecutor's Office and recognized two Internet resources as extremist ones. According to the Office, they acted in the interests of the local bandit underground.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has helped two hospitals in Makhachkala, where the patients wounded at the double terror act take their treatment. We also know that two especially grave patients have been sent today from Dagestan into one of Moscow clinics by a special aircraft.

Today, the Constitutional Court of Armenia has denied the claim lodged by Deputies of the National Assembly to abolish the prohibition stipulated by the Electoral Code to disclose the list of those voters, who have actually cast their ballot papers.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan has upheld the decision of the Lenin Magistrate Court of Makhachkala, prescribing to liquidate the religious books confiscated from Ziyavdin Dapaev, a follower of the Turkish theologian Said Nursi, who had been earlier convicted of organizing an extremist organization.

As a result of the double terror act committed in Makhachkala, five teenagers were injured – three are in local medical institutions; and two kids were let home after first aid. In total, 62 victims were hospitalized in Makhachkala.

The police have dispersed a picket held in Stavropol on May 4 at midday in front of the House of Justice in defence of pensioner Valentina Prasolova, who was accused of extremism. According to the police, the action was illegal.

On May 4, in Yerevan, the "Civil Movement of Tegut Defenders" organized a protest against felling the Tsagov Forest in the town of Zhukovsky, Moscow Region. Activists marched from the Mashtots Park to the Embassy of Russia in Armenia and expressed their support for Russian ecologists.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has dismissed Tamerlan Mingaev from his post of Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the Chechen Republic under the Russian President. The dismissal has to do with the improper conduct of his wife Madina Mingaeva, said Ramzan Kadyrov.