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On May 8, in the village of Shamkhal, Kirov District of Makhachkala, an unidentified person made several pistol shots at Asvad Abdullaev, deputy commander of OMON (riot police) company No. 1 for the Republic of Dagestan (RD), who was at that moment in the yard of his house. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the RD.

In the plain Shelkovskoy District of the Chechen Republic the police detained a truck carrying more than a thousand bottles of alcohol. A source from law enforcement bodies of Chechnya asserts that this is the largest of the recently detected batches of alcoholic beverages.

The Georgian parliament may recognize the so-called "Genocide of the Circassian Nation" before May 21, since the Circassian issue has rather powerful lobby in Georgia, said Yulon Gagoshidze, Minister on the Matters of Georgian Diaspora.

The presentation of the book by Zoya Svetova "Innocent Is Found Guilty" about the scientist Igor Sutyagin, accused of espionage, and the Chechen girl Zara Murtazalieva, convicted for terrorism, was attended by about a hundred persons; half of them were journalists of Russian and foreign mass media. As it turned out later, some visitors could not get into the hall and waited outside hoping to get an autograph from the author of the book. According to Zoya Svetova, she dedicated her book to Anna Politkovskaya.

A triple holiday is celebrated in Nagorno-Karabakh on May, 9: the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the 19th anniversary of creation of the Defense Army of Karabakh and the day of liberation of the town of Shushi.

A search group of Peace-support mission named after General Lebed started search of those missing since the period of the Georgian-Osetian conflict of 1989-2008.

Unidentified people committed an attempt at a woman fortune-teller and her husband in Sergokala district of Dagestan, both of them were hospitalized with grave gunshot wounding.

According to a preliminary version, Yahya Magomedov, journalist of an Islamic newspaper "As-Salam", might be killed by mistake: he might have been confused with his relative, a police officer, Alkhas Amirhanov, Senior Assistant Chief of Investigative Department of the Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Dagestan, reported.

The two members of the armed underground, whose liquidation was reported on April 25 by the republic's authorities and power agents, blew themselves up after they ran out of ammunition, but not killed in the course of the special operation, said the head of one of the republic's public organizations (NGOs).

The Inter-District Division of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) for Dagestan fined Murtazali Tagirov, head of public organization "Fighter for Justice" by 4500 roubles.

Today, a trial took place in Finland on the case on illegal immigration of Chechen natives. The defendants Abdulkhamid Mechiev and Mikael Storsjo were acquitted.

On May 6, the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev was summoned to the Investigatory Committee of Ingushetia by investigator Gaitov for questioning. Magomed Tambiev, head of the Nazran GUVD (Chief Interior Department), has asked the Prosecutor's Office initiate a criminal case against the oppositionist.

About 50 houses were flooded in the village of Atlanaul, Buinaksk District of Dagestan, after heavy rains. This was reported by the republic's department of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

The Ingush Prosecutor's Office has conducted a check of the application lodged by Lydia Khazbieva, mother of the oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, who complained of illegal actions of law enforcers, who on March 23 kidnapped Khazbiev and his brothers.

Following the order given by President Eduard Kokoity to the government, on May 17 South Ossetia should start issuing new passports to its citizens.

The today's protest action held in the city of Rustavi by the oppositional organization "National Assembly" has ended in detention of its participants.

A criminal case under the articles of the Criminal Code, which assume responsibility for disorderly conduct and rendering resistance to state officials, was initiated against a group of Azerbaijani believers, who held on May 6 a rally outside the Ministry of Education in Baku demanding the freedom for wearing hijabs in schools.

On May 6, the central square of Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, hosted the opening ceremony of the International Bicycle Races. They are attended by over fifty athletes from Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Estonia, Romania, Austria, Germany and France.

On May 6, more than 40 private houses were flooded in the capital of North Ossetia as a result of rain and hail that attacked the city: roads were washed off; power lines were broken; and some buildings lost their roofs, reports the administration of the head of the republic.

Citizens of Georgia will be able to work legally in the territory of France; 200 jobs have been allocated for this purpose, said Giorgi Vashadze, Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia.