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Today, Sergey Evloev, 19, a resident of Makhachkala, who had stated earlier that he was abducted by local law enforcers, turned for help to the commission under the President of Dagestan engaged in assisting the persons, who have decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities, in adapting to peaceful life.

Susanna Dudieva, leader of the "Beslan Mothers", has moved a version that the murder of the National Poet of North Ossetia-Alania Shamil Dzhigkaev was caused by his poem critical of pilgrims from Chechnya and Ingushetia. However, the Ingush authorities called on not to make hasty conclusions.

Today, on May 27, Sasun Mikaelyan, one of the most famous commanders of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, was set free from the penal institution "Prisoners' Hospital".

A non-governmental organization "Grass Roots" filed an application of holding a picket in defense of convicted human rights activist Pavel Cherevatov in Krasnodar. The Mayor's office refused granting the application. The organizers consider this refusal groundless and do not give up their plans of holding the action of protest.

According to the version of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, Minister of Public Health of North Osetia has inflicted damage on the budget to a sum of one million rubles.

One of the leaders of the "Georgian Party" Levan Gachechiladze is sure that there were much more victims of the dispersal of the oppositionists' meeting in Tbilisi than it was officially reported.

On May 31 - the Day of Smoking-Quitting - activists of the "Young Guard" will appear in gas masks and offer all the wishing volunteers to give blood samples for determination of the level of carbon monoxide (CO) in the organism.

The Pervomaiskiy District Court has ordered the city administration of Rostov-on-Don to sanction the "Strategy-31" action in defence of Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which stipulates the freedom of assembly, in those months as the applicants will indicate. According to the organizer of this rally Pavel Nagibin, the court has consistently recognized the unlawfulness of the refusal by the city administration to sanction the "Strategy-31" rallies on October 31, 2010, and January 31 this year.

The United States, which had earlier put Dokku Umarov, leader of "Imarat Kavkaz", on the list of international terrorists, are ready to pay remuneration of five million US dollars for information about his whereabouts, says the joint Russian-American declaration on combating terrorism.

The Armenian National Assembly has approved the draft law "On Amnesty", initiated by the President of the country Serzh Sargsyan, when 91 MPs voted for it, and one MP abstained. The amnesty was announced in connection with the 20th anniversary of independence of the Republic of Armenia to be marked on September 21.

The international organizations Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Reporters Without Borders (RWB) have treated the force used by Georgian police to disperse the demonstration in Tbilisi as excessive and disproportionate.

Today Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev signed an order today to pardon 89 prisoners; among those pardoned is Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief and founder of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Daily Azerbaijan.

As ruled by Judge Natalia Larina, the trial of blogger Alexei Dudko would continue at the Taganka District Court in Moscow on June 1.

Two members of ex-Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burjanadze's "Democratic Movement - United Georgia" were detained by Georgian police for accusation of actions which resulted in the death of people.

After last night's dispersal of the action of "People's Assembly" in front of the Parliament in Tbilisi which turned into an unauthorized one, charges were brought against 90 people, Head of Informational and Analytic Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia Shota Utiashvili reported.

Supporters of Levan Gachechiladze, leader of the "Georgian Party", whose location was unknown after yesterday's dispersal of the unauthorized action in Tbilisi by riot squad announced that he was safe and sound and was in a safe place together with his son at the moment.

The personnel of law enforcement bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria have killed 36 participants of paramilitary groups and their accomplices, Sergey Vasiliev, Minister of Interior Affairs of the republic, reported at a session of the Parliament of KBR today.

A skirmish among natives of Ingushetia and Dagestan occurred at night of May, 22, not far from a cafe in the 8th Line of Vasilievsky Ostrov, St. Petersburg, eight people got wounded. According to law enforcement bodies, the incident was a result of shoot-outs.

The protest rally of the "People's Assembly", which demands President Mikhail Saakashvili's resignation, continues at the Parliament in Tbilisi, despite the information that at midnight, after the rally application expires, it may be dispersed by the police.

On May 6 in the morning, Hadji Murat Khalitov, a resident of the village of Serebryakovskaya, Kizlyar District, was detained. His advocate Murad Magomedov said that since May 17 he was not able to contact his client; and he fears that the detainee is tortured. The investigator in charge of Khalitov's case told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the suspect was kept at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the city of Kizlyar.