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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.

The search, conducted on June 18 at the house of relatives of Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, frightened the children, his daughter-in-law has complained. This was the seventh search.

Opponents of the "March of Dignity", announced by LGBT activists in Tbilisi, have held a preventive action at the office of the march organizers, stating that "they will not admit a gay parade."

On June 19, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ali Gekhaev, a native of Chechnya to six years in colony for sending 1262 euros to his brother, who later went to Syria to fight on the side of militants.

The participants of the conflict in Kizlyar are supported by a significant part of residents of Dagestan, who fear the transfer of land to Chechnya, Dagestani journalists and political analysts have stated in response to Ramzan Kadyrov's assertion that the Dagestani society is not on the side of individual activists.

Avtandil Mamedov, an Azerbaijani citizen, who was detained in Georgia at the request of Baku, has been set free by the court in Marneuli on bail for the time of considering his extradition issue, his wife has informed.

The office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has refused to comment on the statement voiced by Khizri Shikhsaidov, Speaker of the People's Assembly of Dagestan, about the suspension of the demarcation of land between Dagestan and Chechnya. Journalist Maxim Shevchenko sees no logic in the speech delivered by Khizri Shikhsaidov on behalf of Alexander Matovnikov. The Kremlin is trying to smooth out the consequences of the conflict in Kizlyar, suggests political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin.

In Moscow and the Moscow Region, law enforcers detained two natives of Dagestan, suspected of transferring money to terrorists. Searches at homes of Dagestani natives are being carried out in seven regions, including Dagestan, the Stavropol Territory, and the Astrakhan Region, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

The whereabouts of Ali Aliomarov, a resident of Dagestan, remains unknown after Moscow law enforcers had searched an apartment rented by him. This has been reported today by relatives of the disappeared man.

In Chechnya, the court fined Malika Djikaeva for 40,000 roubles after a video had been posted with her firing from a submachine gun and a pistol while wearing the uniform of a policewoman.

The defence of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov, who were arrested for two months within the case of financing terrorism, intends to appeal against their arrest. Gadjiev has called the evidence of the guilt "invented"; Tambiev stated an attempt to hide the fact of his beating; and Rizvanov complained of moral pressure.