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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Russia should pay a fine of 122,724 euros for two lawsuits of Chechen residents.

The location of the leader of the armed underground of North Caucasus Dokku Umarov is known to the Russia's secret services, Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB, has announced today.

The citizen of the Republic of Belarus, who had earlier evidenced in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", has disappeared somewhere outside Russia.

State prosecution disagreed with the judgment of Stavropol territorial court concerning ex-Mayor of Georgievsk Victor Gubanov fined for bribery. The public prosecutor appealed against the judgment insisting on imprisonment for the convict.

A verdict concerning Igor Chetvertukhin, senior operative officer of Uriupinsk Inter-regional department of Federal Service of Drug Control, came into effect. He was acknowledged guilty of an attempt of illegal drug traffic and abuse of authority.

Two illegal pipelines for pumping inflammable lubricant materials from Russia to Ukraine were found in the city of Donetsk, Rostov region. Smugglers built a three kilometer long pipe under the earthroad between the settlements of Tsof and Shevyrev and fit out an area for pumping in one of the garages of Donetsk.

Today in The Hague, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) will publish a report on Georgia entitled "Unable or Unwilling?" In the opinion of the NHC, for various reasons the Georgian authorities are "braking" efficient inquiry of the crimes that fall into jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

An employee of the Russian MIA's Chief Department for the Southern Federal District (SFD) is accused of planting a kilo of heroin into the car of Alexander Afanasiev, Director of the OBI Supermarket, against whom a criminal proceeding was later instituted on drug dealing.

Journalists were told by Ovik Abramyan, Speaker of the Parliament, that the Armenian National Assembly would consider the amnesty issue at its extraordinary session on May 25. According to his story, this is the ninth amnesty campaign in the history of independent Armenia; and it will be completed before the 20th anniversary of Independence - on September 21.

At the moment of receiving a bribe of 10,000 roubles, employees of the Department of Own Security of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of the Astrakhan Region detained a GIBDD (traffic police) inspector.

Now in Georgia, inmates may contact their relatives through video conferencing. Since May 19, this service is available for juvenile offenders; and in the near future the innovation will be gradually introduced in other penal institutions.

The investigatory bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria have initiated a criminal case against two officials of the administration of the Prokhladnensky District. They are suspected of frauds with the housing facilities intended for resettling people out of dilapidated housing stock.

Today, the Shamil District Court of Dagestan has sentenced three policemen, accused of brutal beating of Makhmud Akhmedov, 14.

No less than 116 persons became victims of armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus in April. 71 people out of them were killed and 45 got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.