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Upon receipt of compensations for the harm suffered at the 2011 terror act at the "Domodedovo" Airport, the victims would recall their complaints from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), said their advocate Igor Trunov.

A man with a firearm, who appears on the video record of the mass fight involving a Chechen athlete, can become involved in the criminal case in case if it is found out that he did not have a permit for the pistol. This was stated by lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Members of the Anapa District Cossack Society tried to stop a brawl in the city airport, Cossacks assert. According to preliminary data, six supporters of the Fund to Fight Corruption (FFC) suffered; one of them was hospitalized.

The court has sentenced a resident of the Urvan District to seven years in colony, finding him guilty of links with militants and illegal possession of ammunition and narcotic drugs.

The Presnya Court in Moscow has ruled to arrest 12 people in the case of a brawl in the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow, suspected of murder, illegal possession of weapons and hooliganism. They refused to plead guilty and testify. 22 participants of the brawl have been sentenced to administrative arrest for 15 days.

In Derbent, investigators have reported on discovery of the body of only one militant at the place of the special operation. According to Dagestani journalists, the actions of the police chiefs during the special operation show a lack of experience and a possible desire to receive a reward for the capture of the killers of Gadjiakhmed Kaziakhmedov.

Natives of Northern Caucasus, who have fallen under the influence of Moscow criminal leaders, are involved in the conflict as ordinary "foot soldiers". This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Igor Stenin, the head of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", has been found guilty of public calls to extremism, and sentenced to two years in a colony-settlement. He intends to appeal against the verdict.

The policemen wounded during a special operation in Derbent, have been transferred from the city hospital into the medical unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Makhachkala. The health condition of three of the 15 hospitalized patients is estimated as grave.

Victory Day celebrations; participation of singers from South-Caucasian countries in the "Eurovision-2016" song contest; special operation in Derbent after the murder of 82-year-old Gadjiakhmed Kaziakhmedov; ECtHR judgment in the case of abduction of Chechen woman in 2009; attack on a checkpoint in Chechnya and burning down of attackers' houses and the house of Ramazan Djalaldinov, who had raised corruption issues; start of NATO military exercises in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 9-15, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Natives of Chechnya and Dagestan are suspected of organizing of and participating in a mass brawl in the Khovanskoye Cemetery; criminal cases have been initiated against them, said a law enforcement source.

Today, in the city of Derbent, an apartment was blocked in a high-rise building; and four suspected militants were killed in a special operation. According to power agents, the blocked apartment was used as a shelter by suspects of committing on May 9 the murder of the 82-year-old Gadjiakhmed Kaziakhmedov, the father of the former Mayor of the city Felix Kaziakhmedov.

The arson of the house of Ramazan Djalaldinov, a resident of the Avar village of Kenkhi, who had raised the issue of corruption in Chechnya, should be investigated; and the pressure on his fellow villagers should be stopped, the Dagestani branch of the "Yabloko" Party says in its appeal to President Vladimir Putin.