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Manana Archvadze-Gamsakhurdia, the widow of Georgia`s late president Zviad Gamsakhurdia, announced intention to commit a suicide for attracting the public attention to her son Tsotne Gamsakhurdia who was sentenced to 9,5 years prison on charges of attempted murder, illegal possession and carrying of firearms.

In Rostov, the board chairman of "Mutual loan" cooperative society Alexander Hevelev and his ex-wife, Natalya Samokhina, who are suspected of defrauding nearly 3500 shareholders for over 347 million rubles, were arrested, the Rostov regional prosecutor's office reports.

In Azerbaijan, the three villages more were flooded in Gadzhygabulsky district - Meiniman, Khilya and Alatli. Meiniman alone numbers 1,500 residents and about 500 houses.

Today in the morning in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, an explosive device was triggered and wounded an employee of the militia post-and-patrol service (PPS), as reported by the Investigatory Department (ID) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office).

During summer school vacations Chechen mosques plan to open classes for reading the Koran. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it at the republic's Muftiat.

On May 22 in Dagestan, law enforcers detained a car with a suspected organizer of the terror act committed in Kizlyar on March 31.

Tonight, explosions happened in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, and in Kasumkent village, Suleimanstal District of the republic. A suspected suicide bomber perished, and three militiamen were injured.

Georgian lawyers have suspended their protest action held in front of the building of the parliament of Georgia for ten days. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by lawyer Shalva Khachapuridze, the organizer of the action.

Three employees of the Department of the Federal Correction Service (known as "UFSIN") for Kabardino-Balkaria were killed in a shell, one more was wounded.

Last Friday, on May 21, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan organized the first tour of a group of local journalists to the contact line of armed forces of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Terter direction.

Ingushetia has elected its new representative of its legislative body to the Council of Federation - Ahmet Palankoev, 47, an entrepreneur and patron of arts.

Russian rights defenders are concerned of the state of health of blogger Alaudin Dudko, known in the Internet under nickname ingushetiya_ru, who was arrested in Moscow.

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.