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Urus-Martan city court in Chechnya obliged the Ministry of Defense to pay 500 thousand rubles for the loss of a woman soldier in Chechnya. According to the judgment, the victim's mother will receive the money as a compensation for moral damage.

On May 17 in Chechnya, a sentence was passed to the 15-year-old boy, who last summer reported false data to the "MegaFon" mobile operator about an impending major terror act.

Four citizens of Georgia have been detained for illegal crossing of the state borders of South Ossetia, said the KGB (State Security Committee) of South Ossetia. According to the Georgian MIA, the young people were gathering edible herbs near the border, when Russian frontier guards tried to arrest them. According to the Georgian party, two of the Georgians were wounded.

The Lenin Federal Court of Makhachkala held another session on the case of journalists from the newspaper "Chernovik" accused of "inciting extremism" and "kindling hatred" to law enforcement bodies. In their last statement the journalists refused to plead guilty. The sentence will be announced on May 19.

The court of general jurisdiction of the administrative districts Kentron and Nork-Marash of Yerevan has ruled to extend by two more months the custody of Major-General Ovannes Tamamyan, ex-head of the Chief Department of Criminal Investigation of the Police of Armenia.

Residents of the Dagestani enclave in Azerbaijan - the village of Khrakh-Uba - have announced their plans to hold a new rally on May 23 in Makhachkala, where they intend to demand again from the authorities of Dagestan and Russia to protect their interests.

Following the information about the intention of the administration of the head of Dagestan to buy a batch of silver watches worth about 80,000 US dollars, the data appeared in the press that the high-ranking guests of the May 11 opening ceremony of the sports complex in Grozny were generously presented with watches with diamonds. As stated now in the Chechen administration, the guests did not receive any gifts bought for the budget money.

The Lenin District Court of Grozny has partially satisfied the claim lodged by Ruman Kosumova, a resident of the village of Kharachoi, Vedeno District of Chechnya, on compensation for her moral sufferings caused to her by actions of prosecutors from the Vedeno District and Shali Inter-District Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department for Chechnya of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The human rights organization named "Mashr" has presented its annual report "Illusion of Law" about human rights violations in Ingushetia in 2010. According to the organization, in 2010, 13 residents of Ingushetia were kidnapped, 9 of them outside the republic; in 2009, the respective figures were 14 and 7.

On May 16, the Sovietskiy District Court of Astrakhan put a full stop in considering the lawsuit filed by the Mayor of Astrakhan Sergey Bozhenov on protection of their honour and dignity and compensation of his moral harm against the newspaper named "Revival of the State". The court ruled to fine Vladimir Anikin, the paper's founder and editor, by 10,000 roubles.

The Tsentralny District Court of Volgograd has extended the detention of Nikolai Volkov, a former deputy of the Regional Duma, accused of a series of sexual crimes against children, the press service of the court said.

Today, the Nizami District Court of the city of Gandzha, chaired by Emin Akhundov, finalized the trial of Bakhtiyar Gadjiev.

The hunger strike of Georgian lawyers near the parliament's building in Tbilisi continues.

Today from 18:00 (17:00 Moscow time) till midnight (23:00 Moscow time) sixty museums of Armenia will receive visitors for free within the framework of the international action the "Night of Museums". This year the slogan of the "Night of Museums" the world over is "Museum and memory".

A mass scuffle occurred in Lubertsi district of Moscow region, one person perished as a result and seven got injured, a source in law enforcement bodies of the district reported.

Department of Rosprirodnadzor in Krasnodar region and Adygeia inspected an area in the neighbourhood of Anapa, questioned the divers and found no corroboration of the information received that three tens dead dolphins were found in the water area.

An attempt at deputy imam of the local mosque was committed in the settlement of Sultanyangi-Yurt, Kizilyurt district of Dagestan, his fourteen-year-old daughter got wounded.

The Presnya Court of Moscow has extended - until July 6 - the custody of Aslan Cherkesov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of murdering in Moscow Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" FC. This was announced today by Olga Sutyapova, press secretary of the court.

The information that the Moscow-Nalchik train was mined proved to be false; the women who had reported about the bomb is registered at the narcology service, said Khazret Zhangeriev, head of the Linear Department of Internal Affairs on Transport.

Rudlan Khanbutaev, a resident of the village of Sovietskoe, Magaramkent District, who was beaten by local policemen on May 13, complains that the district prosecutor's office and the investigatory committee do their best to ignore the fact of the crime.