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Advocates of the parents of the schoolchildren, who drowned in the sea near Yeisk have filed a complaint against the court, which rejected their petition to attract teachers as co-respondents. On May 16, 2011, a preliminary court hearing will take place.

On May 11, Batyr Akhilgov, advocate of Issa Khashagulgov, a resident of Ingushetia, had a meeting with his client, who is suspected of organizing the terror act in North Ossetia. The meeting was sanctioned after Akhilgov and Khashagulgov wife complained to rights defenders that since April 22 the advocate had no chance to meet his client.

The wristwatches are intended not for bureaucrats but for awarding on special occasions and memorial dates of law enforcers, athletes and scientists for special merits to the republic, Rasul Khaibullaev, press secretary of the president of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Currently, the family of Sheikh Kurman Ismajlov, whose house was searched, after which power agents stated confiscation "of substance looking like explosive", lives not at home but with his relatives, since advocates strongly advised his to stay among people and not live along as he had used to.

The Centre for Combating Extremism is now checking the fact of dissemination of the book on war crimes in Chechnya, written by the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS). The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" considers it an attempt to suppress the freedom of speech and prevent human rights activities with the help of the anti-extremist legislation.

Journalist Oleg Teplischev reports that on May, 11, he and his mother were compulsory evicted from two flats belonging to them located in one of the houses in the center of Astrakhan.

Armenian parliamentarians approved a legislative initiative of forming an Ethics Committee for officials and deputies in first reading. The Committee will control interrelations between the officials and deputies and correspondence between real officials' income and declarations submitted by them.

Administration of the President of Dagestan placed an order on purchasing a parcel of 100 silver watches at the web-site of Government Purchases. The starting price of the contract makes 2 215 thousand rubles (about 80 thousand dollars).

On May, 12, Head of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Kabardino-Balkaria Sergey Valiliev signed an agreement of collaboration with representatives of the three major confessions of the republic and the Ombudsman of KBR.

Today, the village of Dvani was the venue of the fourth meeting of the special commission in charge of searching the dead and missing persons with participation of officials from Georgia, South Ossetia and Russia, organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

In the evening on May 11, in the village of Poltavskaya, Krasnodar Territory, in the building of the Krasnoarmeiskiy District Court, in the course of an open trial, four defendants cut their wrist veins, when their verdict was announced. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from the defendants' representatives.

At the end of the opening ceremony of the Akhmad-Hadji Kadyrov Stadium in Grozny, a football match was played by the "Stars of World Football" and the team named "Kavkaz". The match was played in two 30-minute halves. The hosts beat the visitors with the score 5:2.

On May 11, Araik Balasanyan, a tractor driver and a resident of Nagorno-Karabakh, died from a bullet at the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops. Nagorno-Karabakh blames Azerbaijani militaries for the murder of the civilian.

On Tuesday, May 10, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) considered the appeal complaint lodged by rights defender Vidadi Iskenderov head of the NGO named "Assistance to Defence of Democracy", who challenged the legality of the decision of Nizami District Court of May 2 about his 2-month-long arrest. The judge left the appeal complaint without satisfaction.

Lieutenant-Colonel Abdurashid Bibulatov, head of the RUVD (District Police Department) of the Kaitag District, into whose yard a grenade was thrown at night on May 8 a grenade was thrown, did not exclude that local officials, whom be had accused of abuse, could back the attack.

"Oil Capital of Ingushetia. Malgobek - City of Military Glory" - this is the name of the documentary, which was screened on May 10 by the "Mir" TV Channel. The authors of the film - a well-known script-writer Javanshir Danoguev and Lydia Mizieva - focused spectators' attention on biographies of five World War II veterans, residents of this city, who were among the defenders of Malgobek.

The inquiry into the criminal case, initiated against an operative officer of the criminal search of the Terek ROVD (District Interior Division), accused of beating up his suspects, has been completed.

A criminal case on the fact of beating Magomed Khanmagomedov, a correspondent of "Chernovik", in the city of Derbent has not yet been opened. According to the journalist, the people who had beaten him are known and undertake to reconcile with him. The police claim that the fact of beating is being checked.

On May 5, the former President of Ireland Mary Robinson awarded the organization named "Committee Against Torture" for the development of the idea and coordination of the work of the united mobile groups in the Chechen Republic.

In the Lagan District of Kalmykia four lower-grade pupils got drowned, said a source from local law enforcers.