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Alexander Khloponin, Russian Vice-Premier and President's Plenipotentiary for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), sees no need to return the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime to the territory of the District.

From May 14 on, in capital of Armenia has launched the Second International Festival of Comic Strips. Their cartoon stories are presented by 20 well-known masters from France, Italy, Russia and the United States.

For several days already the population of Tskhinvali has been experiencing difficulties with water supply. Experts of the united on duty-dispatch service of the government of South Ossetia strain efforts to eliminate failures at the water line caused by heavy rains in the mountains.

Today, a resident of Makhachkala Aziza Akhmedulayeva approached with a letter to the heads of security forces in Dagestan, Vice-Premier of Dagestan Rizvan Kurbanov, and Commissioner for human rights in Dagestan Umupazil Omarova, to make an official investigation into preparation of special operation on May 8.

In the Garadag district court of Baku, at a trial of the earlier sentenced journalist Eynulla Fatullayev who is charged with drug possession this time, the statements of prosecution witnesses concluded. As it was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, evidences were given by the convicts of prison colony No12 where Fatullayev is serving time. Witness Orudge Bairamov has stated that in the colony Fatullayev allegedly confessed him to using drugs during his service in the army.

As stated by Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan at a press conference on April 21, now the police of Armenia use violence and torture with the aim to receive confessions.

On May 10, Georgian Ombudsman Georgi Tugushi and a number of local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) signed the memorandum "On defence and support of human rights in the area of legislative offers and constitutional proceedings".

A citizen of Georgia Gocha Beridze (from another source - Berianidze) who was abducted, according to the Georgian side's statement, from the village of Bershueti in Gori district on 13 May and handed over by South Ossetia to the Georgian authorized persons.

Ruslan Alkhanov, Chechen Interior Minister, has reported today that the terrorist who had planned to commit a terror act on May 9 was identified. According to his story, he was a resident of Dagestan.

Today, the Kusar District Court of Azerbaijan has reappointed on June 1 the hearing on the case of drug dealing and use by Usman Garisov, a resident of Dagestan, who is kept in the investigatory insulator of Azerbaijan since February 10.

Despite court decisions to demolish the "Fatmei Zakhra" mosque, located in Eni Gyuneshli village, Surukhan District of Baku, after interference of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev, it will be preserved. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that this was the topic of the official statement of the Department of Moslems of the Caucasus (DMC) widespread on May 13.

Today, lawyer Magomed Abubakarov had a meeting with his client Anzor Guchapshev, detained on suspicion of preparing a terror act in the city of Maiskiy, Kabardino-Balkaria, on May 11, 2010.

Elena Bairamkulova and Magomed Abubakarov, lawyer of the Kabardino-Balkarian and Chechen Bars accordingly, have addressed Valery Ustov, head of the Investigatory Department of the Russian ICPO for the KBR (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic), and Anzor Getigezhev, Public Prosecutor of the Maiskiy District of the KBR, with their complaints that employees of the Maiskiy ROVD did not let them to Anzor Guchapshev, whose interests they represent and who was detained on the fact of a car explosion of Maiskiy.