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In Georgia, at the MIA building in Tbilisi, the opposition is starting a rally with a demand to release the detainees, kept in the internal prison on political grounds. According to Soso Panuashvili, the Human Rights representative in Tbilisi, so far, no incidents have been registered.

In the evening on May 18, the Grozny State TV Channel showed a part of a video, presenting suicide bomber Beslan Chagiev, who blew himself up on May 15 at the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya in Grozny.

The members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) closed their eyes on roughest violations admitted in the course of preparation for Olympiad-2014, because of corruption and the fact that the Olympiad has turned into a way to earn money. This was stated by Valery Suchkov, a member of the Public City-Planning Board of Sochi and an expert of the Public Chamber of Sochi on housing and utility services.

All the residents of Buinaksk (Dagestan) who got poisoned by poor-quality confectionery products were rendered medical aid and discharged from hospital. The Republic's "Rospotrebnadzor" (Branch of Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Goods) has applied to the court on temporary stop on operation of the confectionery shop, which had produced the substandard products.

As reported by the press service of the Investigatory Department for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, the explosion near the building of the administration of the city of Kislovodsk, which wounded Natalia Lutsenko, acting Mayor of the city, was allegedly caused by a radio-triggered bomb.

A source of the "Caucasian Knot" in Chechnya, close to the family of Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" special battalion of Russian GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of Russian General Staff), has stated that Yamadaevs did not send anybody to Kadyrovs with a mission to declare blood feud.

General Koba Kobaladze, former commander of the National Guard of Georgia, accused of preparing a putsch, is on his 11th day of hunger strike at the pre-trial isolation facility, as reported on May 17 by his advocate Gela Nikolaishvili.

In the village of Mairtup, Kurchaloy District of Chechnya, power agents have violently beaten two local residents. One of the villagers told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the incident took place last Saturday, on May 16. Local residents believe it to be arbitrariness.

A source from Chechnya's MIA asserts that the special operations aimed at searching and liquidating the militants, who hide in the mountain areas of Chechnya and in the vicinity of the administrative border with Ingushetia, will be conducted until all the militants are liquidated.

The Investigatory Department for Chechnya of the Russian ICPO has stated that they see no obstacles for interrogating Isa Yamadaev, brother of Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" battalion, outside Chechnya, but Isa should have valid reasons for non-appearance under the summon.

As reported today by the police, they found the body of Nazaret Berberyan, a US resident of Armenian origin, who had disappeared earlier in Armenia, with traces of violence.

Today, the end of the Akushinskogo Street in Makhachkala was blocked by 30 townspeople, who demanded from a local businessman to stop his construction on the road.

In Chechnya, two of the four local residents detained on May 10 by power agents are still kept in custody, and two were set free. Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have reported that these men - residents of Bachi-Yurt village, Kurchaloy District, were detained by militia for stealing horses.

Ilez Gardanov and Ilez Gorchkhanov, detained on May 14 near Sunzha River in the Pliev Municipal District of Nazran, were severely beaten and tortured by law enforcers. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Gardanov's mother Raishat. She asks President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov to interfere into the matter.

On Monday, several dozens of oppositional activists held a protest action by blocking the Vazha-Pshavela Avenue, one of central streets in Tbilisi, where the "Rustavi-2" TV Company is located.

On May 26, the country's Independence Say, the Georgian opposition plans holding a "grandiose rally" in Tbilisi with a demand of Mikhail Saakashvili's resignation. At the same time, its leaders complain of reduced number of protesters.

On May 15, a broad-scale special operation with participation of units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and Federal Troops was launched in the mountainous part of Chechnya.

At the Georgian festival "Tbilisi Open Air - Alter/Vision" held in Tbilisi in parallel with Moscow's "Eurovision", everybody performs what he or she wants and everybody has the right to express one's opinion. This was stated by Anna Sikharulidze, organizer of the festival.

The young men, whose liquidation was reported today by the MIA of Chechnya and who were named as helpers of the suicide-bomber who committed the terror act in Grozny on May 15, did not render any armed resistance to militiamen. Natalia Estemirova, representative of the HRC "Memorial", told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to eyewitnesses.

On May 12, in the semi-final round of "Eurovision", at the background of the duet from Armenia the symbol of Nagorno-Karabakh - the monument "We and our mountains" was shown. Under the pressure the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, the organizing committee of "Eurovision" removed this fragment from the caption.