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Today, Kakha Kaladze, one of the leaders of the "Georgian Dream-Democratic Movement" ruling party, has announced that Irakli Kobakhidze, Speaker of the Georgian parliament, decided to resign. According to Kakha Kaladze, the Irakli Kobakhidze's decision is related to the principles of the party.

After his release from a penal settlement colony, Oyub Titiev has reported that he will not be working for the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Chechnya. However, he has promised that he will continue his human rights activities.

This morning, a protest rally in front of the parliament building in the capital of Georgia has ended with detentions of protesters. According to the Georgian Ministry for Public Health, 240 people were hospitalized.

Today, Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", has left his penal colony in Argun, where he had been imprisoned on charges of drug possession.

The refusal of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Dagestan to sanction a rally in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, one of the editors of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, will be appealed against, said the initiator of the action. The journalists' solidarity with Gadjiev is caused by the decreased confidence in the actions of law enforcement bodies, Dagestani editors-in chief believe.

In the city of Derbent, Elena Barzukaeva and Zeinab Kurbanova have held solo pickets with a demand to release their sons, detained within the case of weapon possession.

The Chechnya's conflicts with neighbouring regions on border issues have consolidated Chechens both in the republic and abroad; however, Ramzan Kadyrov's and his entourage's scandalous statements spoil relations among nations, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

As a result of the dispersal of the protest action at the parliament building in Tbilisi, 30 protesters and 39 policemen were hospitalized with various traumas. Law enforcers detained activists, who resisted the police.

Beslan Kmuzov, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who was present at the protest action held at the parliament building in Tbilisi, was hospitalized with a wound in his head.

Malsag Uzhakhov, the head of the Council of Teips of the Ingush people, who was arrested within the case of the rally in Magas, is accused of creating an organization that violates citizens' identities and rights.

The protest action began in Tbilisi on June 20, after at a sitting of the Parliamentary Assembly, held in the building of the Georgian Parliament, Sergey Gavrilov, a Russian State Duma MP, sat into the chair of the Speaker. This displeased some of the Georgian MPs; and they announced the start of the Speaker's impeachment procedure.

The sitting of the Russian MP in the chair of the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament during the International Parliamentary Orthodox Assembly has provoked an oppositionists' protest. They announced the start of the Speaker's impeachment procedure.

Guram Palavandishvili, an activist, who participated in creating a legion against holding the "March of Dignity" in Tbilisi, was arrested today for resisting the police, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

Women from Ingushetia recorded a video appeal to Vladimir Putin. In their appeal, they complain that their relatives are being unreasonably persecuted after a rally in Magas. In its turn, the Council of Teips (family clans) called on residents of the republic to meet every week for collective prayer in support of the arrested activists.

Positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

On June 19, Ali Aliomarov, a native of Dagestan, whose disappearance worried his relatives, told his wife that law enforcers detained him in Moscow and planned to transport him to the Stavropol Territory. The man explained that the large amount of money found at him came from the sale of his car and was not raised to finance terrorists.

In his video appeal to the President of Russia, Sarazhudin Pogorov, a 93-year-old father of Akhmed Pogorov, the co-Chair of the World Congress of the Ingush People, stood up for the arrested activists and requested the President to investigate the situation in Ingushetia.

On June 19, Fuad Abbasov, an Azerbaijani journalist, who went on a hunger strike in protest against his unjustified deprivation of freedom in the Moscow Region, explained his decision to stop his hunger strike by doctors' recommendations.

Azerbaijani authorities must exhibit the will and complete the anti-corruption reform related to the mandatory declaration of income and property by the MPs, judges and prosecutors, the Anti-Corruption Group of the Council of Europe (GRECO) has stated in its report.