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The two members of the armed underground, whose liquidation was reported on April 25 by the republic's authorities and power agents, blew themselves up after they ran out of ammunition, but not killed in the course of the special operation, said the head of one of the republic's public organizations (NGOs).

Today, a trial took place in Finland on the case on illegal immigration of Chechen natives. The defendants Abdulkhamid Mechiev and Mikael Storsjo were acquitted.

The suspected member of the armed underground, who was killed on May 6 in the Zavodskoy District of the capital of Chechnya, was identified as Muslim Agiev, 26, a native of Ingushetia, the local police reports.

The investigation of the criminal case of murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "Novaya Gazeta", has been prolonged till September, 7, 2011, official representative of Committee of Inquiry Vladimir Markin reported.

On May, 1, the Committee of the USA for international religious freedoms (constituted by the US Congress in 1998) issued its annual report on religious freedoms in 28 countries of the World.

Bad weather has once again arranged a transport blockade of the resort city of Sochi; Deputies of Karachay-Cherkessia amend the Republic's Constitution; May Day was marked both in the South of Russia and in Transcaucasia, - look these and other events in the review of the week of April 25 to May 1, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The international organization "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) has published a list of "enemies of the freedom of the press" as of the end of 2010. It includes heads of states and governments, kings, paramilitaries and mafia-like structures - in total, 38 positions.

On May 3, a special operation in the mountain-woody Vedeno District of Chechnya resulted in murder of Abdullah Kurd (also known as Doger Sevdet), an emissary of al-Qaida and coordinator of terror acts in Northern Caucasus. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Today, the Tushino Court of Moscow has sentenced four former employees of the OVD (Interior Division) Mitino, found guilty of abuse of office during detention of the participants of the fight in January 2009, to prison terms ranging from three to five years. This was reported by Dmitry Bakharev, advocate of one of the defendants.

As reported by Vladimir Fyodorov, press secretary of the Russian Embassy, eight persons were detained on charges of terrorism in the Czech Republic; three of them are supposedly Russian citizens, natives of Chechnya and Dagestan, representing the Jamaat "Shariat".

As a result of a breakdown of service settlements of plain areas of Shelkovskoy district of Chechnya have been cut off power. Experts of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and "Nurenergo" company are working on the scene of the incident.

Andrei Krasnenkov, representative of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov at the criminal trial on slandering Kadyrov, is misleading the court by trying to substitute the subject of the trial. This was stated on April 28 by Genry Reznik, advocate of Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", at the session at the Moscow City Court. This was Mr Reznik's reaction to Krasnenkov's demand to add Kadyrov's interview and video from his meeting with human rights defenders to the materials of the case.

Three officers of the republican law enforcement bodies got wounded on May, 1, at about 17:30, during operational search actions in the mountainous and wooded area near the settlement of Eshelkhatoy, Vedeno district.