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Not all of the 8000 spectators attended the open workout of the Egyptian national football team voluntarily, local residents said. Together with the participants of the FIFA World Cup, the leadership of Chechnya appeared at the stadium.

A film in the Kabardian language "Deep Rivers" made by Vladimir Bitokov, a film director from Nalchik, received the prize of the "Kinotavr" Film Festival for the best debut and polar opinions of critics. The film director himself believes that residents of Kabardino-Balkaria can give a strict assessment of his film.

Agvan Ovsepyan, the head of the Investigating Committee of Armenia, has announced his resignation, not specifying the reason, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

During the week from June 4 to June 10, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, at least three persons were killed. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In Tbilisi, rights defender Zviad Kuprava and three protesters were detained for failure to obey to the police.

Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh 97 times violated the ceasefire regime in the conflict zone, the Ministry of Defence for Azerbaijan reports

Arrival of participants of the FIFA World Cup in the cities of Southern Russia; special operation carried out in Nazran; two-day strike of metro drivers in Tbilisi; detention of a top-ranking police officer from Dagestan; strong earthquake in Azerbaijan; approval of Taimuraz Akhokhov as Mayor of Nalchik, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 4-10, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Giorgi Gakhariya, the Georgian Interior Minister, and Teya Tsulukiani, the Justice Minister, should leave their posts, Zaza Saralidze, the father of one of the stabbed schoolboys, has stated at the protest action.

Policemen gave blocked streets at the "Akhmat Arena" Stadium and the Grozny Airport several hours before the arrival of the national football team of Egypt, thus created traffic jams, the townspeople have reported.

The reproach to Kadyrov for his appointment of a relative to the post of the Grozny police boss was not accidentally pronounced on air of the "straight line" with Vladimir Putin. The Chechen cadre policy has long been raising questions in the Kremlin, political analysts believe.

Today, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has disclosed the inquiry details into the pressure on witnesses of the murder of two schoolboys in Tbilisi; however, protesters have retained their ultimatum on the June 10 protest action.

Doctors have examined Oleg Sentsov, a citizen of Ukraine, convicted in Rostov-on-Don, the local branch of the Russian Penitentiary Administration (known as FSIN) has reported today.

Persons killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Ingushetia were members of a retired colonel's family, and none of them had any links with militants, and none of them opened fire on law enforcers, local residents assert.

A twelve-year-old participant of the orienteering run in the Crimean District of the Krasnodar Territory, who disappeared in a forest on June 8, was found. His search involved 350 people.

In the evening on June 8, the "Nukhchykhan", a public news agency of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, reported on the restoration of the Azerbaijan's control over the village of Gunnut, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Stanislav Klykh, a citizen of Ukraine, sentenced in Chechnya to 20 years of imprisonment in a penal colony, declared hunger strike. The Ukrainian authorities announced their willingness to exchange prisoners, including Stanislav Klykh, with Russia.

Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has announced imposing security arrest on cars, apartments and a share in the authorized capital of legal entities in the criminal case against Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov, co-owners of the "Summa" Group of Companies.

In the evening on June 8, the 12-year-old orienteering competition participant disappeared during a training run in the forest in the Crimean District of the Krasnodar Territory. His search is underway, investigators report today.

Residents of the Chechen capital noted the enhancement of security measures in the area of "The Local" Hotel and the "Akhmat Arena" Stadium, where athletes from the Egypt national football team will be accommodated and trained for the period of the FIFA World Cup.

The minimum amount of this year's zakat (a form of alms-giving, treated in Islam as a mandatory religious charity that each believer should make upon completion of fasting in the month of Ramadan) should make 100 roubles (about $1.6), the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM of Muftiate) of Chechnya has informed.