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At 7:30 p.m. a skirmish burst out at the bus station of the city of Kaspijsk (Dagestan) that has resulted in one casualty and four persons with injuries of various gravity: three occasional passers-by and a militiaman.

Another court session is over in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on the case of power officers of the Pravoberezhny ROVD (District Interior Unit).

Officers of the Ministry for National Security (MNS) made a search of the offices of newspapers "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan."

Within the recent three weeks, the Tallinn-based human rights organization "Information Centre for Human Rights" has helped people who addressed through the only Estonian telephone "hot line" for the victims of mass disorders caused by the Bronze Soldier dismantling in filing 60 complaints against the police actions.

Russia is toughening its struggle against extremism. The State Duma has passed amendments to the Criminal Code concerning this sort of crimes in the first reading.

Alexander Petrov, deputy director of the Russian Representative Office of the NGO Human Rights Watch, has explained how the Strasbourg Court builds its relations with the Russian Federation and its citizens.

The newspapers "Gyundalik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan" will restart this week, editor Shakhveled Chobanoglu told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The defence of Roman Koyushev, a resident of the Predgorny District of Stavropol Territory, convicted for murdering Imam of Kislovodsk mosque, has declared their intention to appeal against the verdict.

Next week, the Azerbaijani Commission for Complaints of the Council for Press will consider the application of Ali Akhmedov, deputy chair and executive secretary of the Party "Eni Azerbaijan" (PEA), concerning a publication in the "Azadlyg" newspaper, which "had encroached on the honour of the President." Aflatun Amashov, Chairman of the Council for Press, informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.

Shelling of the dwelling districts of the capital of South Ossetia continues, one peaceful resident was wounded, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the place of events in Tskhinval.

Today, the employees of the Department for Tax Crimes under the Department of Internal Affairs of the South-West Administrative District of Moscow have confiscated documents from the central office of the Russian Red Cross (RRC).

Late at night on May 18, the editorial board of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper was visited by the workers of the Fire Fighting Service of the Ministry for Emergencies.

"Blaming extremists and sending 'Alpha' or OMON fighters against them is senseless. It means fighting ideas and thoughts. But you cannot kill an idea," Candidate of Law Arslan Kurbanmagomedov, Assistant Professor of the Makhachkala Branch of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, has declared.

The issue on building a temple in the place of the tragedy in Beslan, in the gym of School No. 1, is still open.

Today at 10 a.m. an unprecedented action of violent eviction of forced Ingush migrants was launched in the refugees' camp in Maiskiy settlement, North Ossetia.

The Federal Agency for Property Management is evicting the Union of Journalists of Russia from its Moscow office, while the Union is preparing to hold the 26th World Congress of Journalists planned in the Russian capital on May 28 - June 1 with participation of mass media representatives from many countries of the world.

Today in Pyatigorsk, the Stavropol Territorial Court has sentenced Roman Koyushev, 24, to 20 years of strict custody colony for murdering the Imam of Kislovodsk mosque.

Denis Bribosia, Council of Europe (CE) Secretary General's Special Representative in Azerbaijan, has stated that CE Secretary General is concerned about arrest of seven journalists in Azerbaijan.

A court in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, sentenced two journalists to 30 months in prison apiece today on charges of defaming President Ilham Aliyev's uncle.

Representatives of the "Beslan Mothers" and the "Voice of Beslan" Committees are resolutely against the idea to build a church in the place of the tragedy.