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Marat Ismailov, an organizer of the anticorruption rally in Makhachkala, who has earlier challenged the refusal to sanction the action, intends to hold the event without the sanction of the city administration. The court has obliged the City Mayoralty to sanction the rally; however, the city authorities have still refused to issue a sanction for the action, notes Marat Ismailov.

Athlete Murad Amriev was put on the wanted list for using a forged passport, and there are no other motives for his prosecution, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports. The law enforcers have denied the information about his kidnapping and torture in 2013.

Rustam Yunusov was brought to the FSB in connection with the case against a third person. This was reported by a source from the FSB Department for Dagestan. Musa Abdulkadirov, a defender of Rustam Yunusov, tried to visit his client, but he was not able to see Rustam Yunusov, the "Chernovik" (Draft) reports today.

In Sochi, within the "Kinotavr" Film Festival, the film "Tesnota" (Tightness) by Kantemir Balagov, a 26-year-old film director, a native of Nalchik, was screened for the first time. Initially, the hall was packed, but by the middle of the show, spectators began leaving. At the same time, the critics interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" welcomed the film with enthusiasm.

At the sitting on June 9, the defence of the Chechen publicist Rizvan Ibragimov, accused of extremism, asked the court to exclude the examination of his books from the case files. The court disagreed with defence's arguments.

The athlete Murad Amriev, who was deported from Belarus to Russia and then brought to Grozny, the Chechen capital, was released from the SIZO (pre-trial prison), said Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).

The Council of the Spanish city of Valencia has officially recognized and condemned the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

The State Security Service (SSS) of Georgia has denied the assertion of the Azerbaijani MP Elman Nasyrov that the kidnapping of journalist Afghan Mukhtarly was a joint Georgian-Azerbaijani special operation.

On June 6, the Georgievsk City Court held the preliminary hearings on the case against Azerbaijani citizen Mekhman Guliev, a resident of Georgievsk, accused of illegal trafficking in arms and drugs. This was told on June 8 to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by advocate Alaudi Musaev.

Today, Aminat Soupyanova, a resident of the Dagestani village of Vremenny, has filed a lawsuit to the Tverskoi District Court of Moscow against the Russian Ministry of Finance demanding compensation for damage caused during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) carried out in 2014. This was reported by the press release of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" received by the "Caucasian Knot".

Three residents of Chechnya Aziz Alviev, Beslan Zakaraev, and Shamkhan Magomadov will appear before the court. Investigators treat Isa Yamadaev, an officer of the "Vostok" (East) battalion, as a person who ordered an assassination attempt on the leader of Chechnya.

The terrorist organization "Islamic State", banned in Russia by the court, plans to destabilize the situation in the southern regions of Russia. This has been stated today by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has appealed to the Russian authorities with questions about what measures are planned to be taken to prevent possible violence against Murad Amriev, detained in Belarus. This has been reported today by the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture".

Athlete Murad Amriev, who claimed being tortured in Chechnya, was handed over to Chechen policemen, the "Interfax" reports with reference to a source from the law enforcement agencies of the Central Federal District.

On June 8, the Moscow District Military Court ended the debate of the parties in Boris Nemtsov murder case.

Yerevan hosts the Fifth International Conference "Search for New Ways in Meeting Modern Challenges. Ways to Peace, Stories of Women Peacekeepers." The conference involves about 100 people from Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, Ukraine and Russia, Colombia, Syria, Georgia, Iraq, Cyprus, and Ireland. Participants of the forum declare gender equality problem in a number of countries.

Family members of Murad Amriev, an MMA fighter and world champion, have left Grozny and the republic for security reasons.

In case of an unfavourable decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Kalmykia under an appeal filed by Alexander Dolzhenko, a former manager of Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Dalnyaya Step", the law enforcement agencies will have grounds to arrest in the case the foreign banking accounts of William Browder, the director of the "Hermitage Capital". This was reported by advocate Alaudi Musaev.

A young man from Chechnya has appealed to the German Embassy in Moscow with a request to provide him with protection from the persecution because of his homosexual orientation. After an interview, officials of the German diplomatic mission granted him an entry visa "for urgent humanitarian reasons," an official of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reports.

Ruslan Parsilaev is sentenced to six years of imprisonment, and Magomedsalikh Nazarov to five years of imprisonment. The court found them guilty of aiding and abetting two natives of Dagestan, wanted on suspicion of killing a Moscow policeman in 2015.