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President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has signed a decree announcing May 27 to be the national holiday "Birthday of Buddha Sakya-Muni".

On May 21, two bombs were found under the oil pipeline "Shirvan-Beyukshor" in Garadag District of Baku.

On May 21, Adygea held actions dedicated to the 146th anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War.

It is supposed that an RGD grenade was blown up in the evening on May 21 in a grocery shop located in Ladozhskaya village, Ust-Labinsk District, Krasnodar Territory. As a result, a woman-shop assistant was killed, and two more persons were wounded.

On May 21, at the session of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, where the murder case of Farid Babayev, a public figure, a human rights activist and the leader of the regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, is considered, the jurymen found Rasil Mamedrizaev guilty and at the same time asked for indulgence for him.

Currently, the process of adoption of Russian children by foreign citizens is de facto suspended until conclusion of bilateral international contracts. This was stated to journalists on May 20 by Pavel Astakhov, Plenipotentiary (Ombudsman) for Children's rights at the President of Russia, who paid a working visit to Nalchik.

The Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) and the "Electrozink" Factory, located in Vladikavkaz, have signed an amicable agreement. The Factory has agreed to carry out nature-protection measures.

Yesterday, on May 20, at the session on the case about liquidation of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP), the leaders of this public organization left the hall of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria in protest. The demarche was caused by rejection of the petition demanding to hold an independent expert's examination of the analytical report "On Situation with Balkars in the KBR (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic)", which had caused the pretext for initiation of the criminal case.

In Ingushetia, employees of the largest and the only state-own motor transportation enterprise of the republic - State Unitary Enterprise (SUE) "Ingushautotrans" are on strike. It was announced because of salary debts.

Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the human rights NGO "Mashr", said that Khamzat Tsechoev, a resident of the village of Plievo, who was detained at night on May 19 in Ingushetia, is accused of keeping weapons. Tsechoev is Mutsolgov's driver.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan will continue considering the murder case of Farid Babaev, leader of the regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, a public figure and human rights activist; the parties' oral statements will take place.

Singularity and novelty of the meeting of activists of socio-political organizations with President Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin was that human right activists of the North Caucasus were communicating directly with the president for the first time, and moreover, "there were no pre-registration for making a speech - it took only to raise your hand." This opinion was expressed by head of Kabardino-Balkaria Human Rights Center Valery Khatazhukov who participated in the meeting.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, in Baksan, an official spokesman for the Investigations Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office Vladimir Markin informed, "At around 10.20 pm two unidentified men made numerous shots pointblank from guns at the deputy prosecutor of the Baksan district, who died on the spot."

Agreement between the governments of Abkhazia and the Russian Federation on mutual visa-free travel, which the parliament of Abkhazia has ratified today, envisages a visa-free travel of citizens of both republics for up to 90 days, including holders of both foreign and internal passports and sailor IDs, as well as children below the age of 14.

As reported by law enforcement bodies of the republic, on May 19 in the Gudermes District of the Chechen Republic, power agents detained an officer of the patrol-post service who transported a large batch of weapons and ammunition in his car. A check was initiated on the fact.

Today, the Perm Territorial Court has left without satisfaction the cassation presentation of the Prosecutor's Office against the court decision on the conditional early relief (CER) of Grigory Grabovoy. The pseudo-healer convicted for swindle can get at large already on May 21.

Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr", "was almost completely satisfied" with the meeting with the President of the Russian Federation Dmitri Medvedev and his Plenipotentiary in Northern Caucasus Alexander Khloponin, although the human rights activist was not given the floor. According to his version, those colleagues who were given the floor had problems with the timetable - only three minutes were given to every speaker, - therefore, half of the participants failed to speak.

Alaudin Dudko, who is known in the Internet under nickname ingushetiya_ru and who is now kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) Butyrka in Moscow on suspicion of drug and explosive storage, was presented new charges - under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Excitation of hatred or enmity and humiliation of one's dignity." Mikhail Kriger and Anna Karetnikova, members of the public observation commission for detention places, who visited Mr Dudko in the SIZO, report about poor blogger's health condition after beating and because of unsatisfactory custody conditions.

On May 19, the Garadag District Court of Baku continued the trial on the new case of the earlier convicted journalist Einullah Fatullaev, this time accused of illegal drug storage. At the trial, the defendant asked to invite Gusein Guseinov, an independent SAP (substance abuse professional), as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The parents of Lieutenant Andrei Rezanov, serviceman of the 33rd Separate Mountain Motor-Rifle Brigade of the Ministry of Defence, accused of murdering the head of the MIA of Dagestan Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, state that their son has alibi.