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On May 15, in Makhachkala, the Dagestani veterans of the Afghan warfare held a rally dedicated to the 23rd anniversary of the start of withdrawal of troop from Afghanistan. At the rally, speakers demanded to investigate the murder of a veteran of Afghanistan, Police Lieutenant Colonel Mugudin Urdikhanov, and reiterated their social problems. They also stated their readiness to go on another hunger strike, if in the near future authorities fail to take measures to help them.

On May 15, Grigor Usnyan, 22, a citizen of Armenia, who was attacked on May 8, died in the Chekhov District of the Moscow Region.

A scandal has burst out on the eve of the regional festival of young playwrights "Rostov Readings", scheduled for May 25, related to the play of the young Rostov playwright Vladimir Golyshev named "Prebiotics". Along with other Russian politicians, the play mentions Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Today, at the Government House, Arsen Kanokov, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), urged parents from the Elbrus District to influence their sons, who are on the search list as suspects of terror activities, towards their return to peaceful life.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has opened a criminal case on the offences, revealed within the pension system in 2009-2010. Bureaucrats used machinations to embezzle more than 113 million drams from the state budget.

A person's involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) should be proved only in the court, while the practice of killing suspects without trial in Northern Caucasus must be stopped. This was stated by Vladimir Lukin, Russian Ombudsman, who presented his 2010 report to the State Duma.

Several people in the district center of Imishli, Azerbaijan, started a hunger strike of protest stating that the money assigned by the state on aid to victims of the flood caused by overflow of the Kura and the Araz rivers were distributed unfairly or plundered.

Journalist Zoya Svetova is sure of political responsibility of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov for Estemirova's death. She told about it on May 16, while giving evidence at the Khamovniki Court of Moscow. According to her story, during her meeting with Estemirova in London, the latter expressed fears for his life; and the threat came not from militants.

On May, 13, Marina Ziuryaeva, a twenty-three-year old single mother in Volgograd region, went on an open-ended hunger strike for the reason of getting no reply from the authorities to her request of accommodation her child in a kindergarten.

Tigran Postanjyan who is in prison "Nubarashen" went on a hunger strike protesting against the prison conditions. According to Postanjyan, 18 prisoners are kept in a cell of 25 square meters, the people sleep in turn and it is impossible to observe elementary rules of hygiene in the cell.

The "Georgian Party" held an action of protest in front of the US Embassy. The leaders and supporters of the party called for the US Administration to stop support of Saakashvili's Government.

A district court in Rostov-on-Don brought in a verdict of guilty to a former militiaman Yaroslav Umrikhin for illegal detention and beating up a local resident.

Policemen are examining the Nalchik-Moscow and Moscow-Nalchik trains for the presence of explosive devices. An unknown woman said by telephone that the trains had been mined.

On May 3, in the course of the judicial session on the case of policemen's beating a 14-year-old teenager, which is considered by the Shamil District Court of Dagestan, the defendants claimed that they rejected all the presented charges. One of the witnesses, who had earlier claimed that he saw a beaten boy at the ROVD (District Interior Division), changed his evidence in court.

Human rights activists and public figures of Russia have issued a statement in defence of the Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" Oleg Orlov, accused of slandering the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Collection of signatures under the statement is underway on the Internet.

On May 12, Pyatimat Khashagulgova, a resident of the Ingush city of Kurabulak, whose husband Issa had been detained on suspicion of involvement in the terror act in Vladikavkaz, addressed Heidi Hautala, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament, asking for "assistance in protecting the rights and freedoms of her husband and family, provided for by international legal acts and the Declaration of Human Rights."

The Municipal Court of Copenhagen has begun a trial of Lors Dukaev, a Chechen boxer-invalid, who is living in Belgium and accused of terrorism.

Residents of the village of Sovietskoe, Magaramkent District, said that on May 13 they were beaten and humiliated by local policemen. The victims have appealed to the investigatory committee of the Magaramkent District. The local police division does not confirm the information about the incident.

On May 12 in Nazran, Adam Moshkhoev, a local resident and an entrepreneur, was kidnapped by employees of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). They wanted to receive ransom for him, said a source from the MIA, who preferred to remain anonymous. The local authorities deny this information.

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Thomas Hammarberg, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, was interested in the issues of human rights in enforcement of judicial decisions, actions of power agents, the progress of the trial on the case of the attack on Nalchik in 2005.