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Elections in Georgia and totals thereof; clashes of the opposition with police in Armenia and Azerbaijan; kidnappings in Northern Caucasus; murders in zones of Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zones; Jehova's Witnesses' complaint to the ECtHR; and outcomes of Circassians' Congress, - look these and other events in the review of the week from May 31 to June 6, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

No additional circumstances have been revealed in the new case initiated against Albert Saaev, a native of Dagestan, accused of complicity to members of the armed underground. This is the opinion of his advocate Viserhadji Ibragimov, who hopes for a conditional sentence to his client.

The strongest downpour last night and today in the morning in Chechnya stopped electric power supplies to several dwelling settlements. Currently, repair teams try to restore them.

With support of the Inter-Regional Committee against Torture (IRCAT), Roman Gastemirov, a resident of Grozny, who was tortured by militiamen and then tried for five years to seek justice in Russia, has addressed the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg.

Prosecutor's office of Chechnya filed a lawsuit against an active rebel Anwar Labazanov, an alleged spokesman of the Caucasian insurgents' leader Doku Umarov, for incitement to national or religious hatred or enmity. Video speech titled "Reminder for militiaman" made by Labazanov and posted on a rebel website encouraged prosecution.

Patients of the Chechen health care institutions assert that despite their medical insurances they have to pay for medical services. According to the ministry of health of Chechnya, about 90% of residents in the region carry the mandatory medical insurances (MMI) to date.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged the Russian Federation to pay compensation of 60,000 euros to the widow and mother of a Chechen of 22, who was kidnapped and disappeared in the course of a military operation in Chechnya.

On June 1, 2010 in the centre of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in the Journalists Mini-Park, women, whose relatives disappeared in 2000-2010, held a picket. Their action was dated to the International Children's Day. Over 50 women held photos of their sons, brothers and fathers. The regional organization named "Parents' Alarm" was the organizer of the action.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov denies his involvement in abductions and murder occurring in the republic and declares that "the only enemies he recognizes and intends to 'annihilate' are the enemies of Islam, to whom he refers the Wahhabi insurgents who are hiding in forests. Also, Kadyrov is convinced that Sharia is above the laws of the Russian Federation.

Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya try to identify the young man, who was killed yesterday, on May 31, in the Oktiabrskiy District of Grozny and who, as power agents believe, was going to commit a self-suicidal act of terrorism. The information about liquidation of the failed suicide-bomber gives rise to doubts among local human rights activists.

Workers of Chechen mass media were recommended to "reorient themselves" and "truthfully and objectively cover the events underway in the republic without silencing and concealing negative phenomena" - this was the task put in front of the heads of local mass media by Shamsail Saraliev, Minister on Foreign Relations, National Policy, Press and Information of Chechnya.

On May 27, in the southwest of Chechnya, a self-made explosive item was triggered and wounded two shepherds who were tending their sheep.