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Today at night, in the municipal district of Barsuki in Nazran, Ingushetia, unidentified persons shelled a private house from a grenade launcher. On preliminary data, the attack was caused by the fact that the house owner was engaged in selling alcohol.

An STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, known in Russia as "GIBDD") inspector, who was installing a video camera at the entrance to the city of Baksan (Kabardino-Balkaria), was wounded by unidentified persons from a passing car.

Today, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has signed an instruction on payment of lump sum compensations to the citizens injured at the terror act in Nalchik on May 1. For this purpose the government of Kabardino-Balkaria will get up to 10 million roubles.

The today's explosion in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, where, under the latest data, one person was killed and 22 others were hospitalized, has caused active debates in the Internet. Many users express fears that the Nalchik tragedy may be followed by terror acts in other regions of Northern Caucasus on the day of the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory.

The militiamen who were guarding the Nazran sports complex were shelled by a man from his pistol; he was shot dead by response fire.

General-Lieutenant Alik Sarkisyan, head of the police of Armenia, begged citizens' pardon for his earlier statement that the police had not applied violence to Vaan Khalafyan, who was summoned for interrogation.

According to the latest data reported by a source in power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria, the count of injured persons at today's explosion at the hippodrome in Nalchik makes 21 persons.

About a hundred young people were detained today in Baku for an attempt to hold an action of commemoration of the victims of the April 30, 2009 mass massacre in the Azeri State Oil Academy (ASOA). Late at night most detainees were released. But 10 persons were sent to Nasimin district court for taking them to administrative punishment.

Umakhan Udamanov, resident of the village of Sultanianghiurt, Kizikurt district, Dagestan, whose son Shamil Udamanov is considered missing since 2007, has stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he intends to apply for help to the presidents of Russia and Dagestan, Dmitry Medvedev and Magomedsalam Magomedov.

Today, the jury has adopted an indictment against a group of Astrakhan militiamen headed by Rinat Salekhov, chief of Astrakhan oblast internal affairs department on combating organized crime, the members of which are accused of murders, gansterism, money laundering and falsification of evidence.

A resident of the town of Karabulak, Ingushetia, claims kidnapping of Zelimkhan Chighitov, her 20-year-old son. According to Zukhra Chighitova, Zelimkhan was kidnapped by law enforcement officers on April 27.

Mukhtar and Magomedrasul Magomedaliyevs, residents of the village of Novy Kostek, Khasaviurt district in Dagestan, kidnapped on April 29, have returned home, reports their father Bagavdin Magomedaliyev. The whereabouts of the third kidnapped son of Magomedaliyev remains unknown.

The investigation of a criminal case has been completed in Astrakhan against Alexander Larin, director of the private company "Lastra", his son Kirill Larin and driver Khagani Akhundov, who are accused of using slave labor of 16 residents of Uzbekistan.