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During his visit to Germany, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev has cancelled the meetings to be carried out at the Bundestag because of the resolution adopted by the German Parliament on recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

Members of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) have completed their visit to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) with the inspection of public agencies, IVS, and SIZO (pre-trial prison) in the Stavropol Territory. The human rights defenders insist that the IVS (temporary detention facility) in Kislovodsk should be closed immediately after the opening of a new temporary detention facility in Yessentuki.

Tonight, a bomb was triggered under the car of Kharon Checheev, a deputy chairman of the Sunzha District Council. Nobody was hurt as a result of the incident, said a republic's law enforcement source.

The off-the-schedule check of the Astrakhan Regional Public Organization "Committee of Soldiers' Mothers", launched on May 31 by the regional departments of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), "Roskomnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Supervising Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media) and Fire Inspectorate, is still ongoing.

For the time of the holy month of Ramadan, the authorities of the cities of Nazran and Magas have installed tents, in which the believers, who observe the fasting, may de-fast in the evening.

Rights defenders have demanded to stop prosecuting Igor Stenin, the head of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", sentenced to two years in a colony-settlement on charges of public calls to terrorism.

On June 8, at the "Kinotavr" Film Festival, which is taking place in Sochi, in the short film contest, the film by Grigory Kolomiytsev "Maria" was screened, dedicated to the problem of terrorism in Northern Caucasus. The main role was played by Madlen Djabrailova, an actress of Lezgin origin.

Last night, unidentified persons painted a portrait of Colonel Yuri Budanov, who was accused of murdering a Chechen girl, next to the bridge over Dudergof Channel in the Krasnoselsky District of Saint Petersburg. Earlier, it has been proposed to rename the bridge after Akhmat Kadyrov.

Last night, in Armenia, houses in the village of Baganis of the Tavush Region were shelled. The Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed the information about the shelling.

Today, Saint Petersburg opens a retrospective of the works of film director Alexander Sokurov. The programme includes films of the master, as well as seven works of graduates of his director's workshop in Kabardino-Balkaria.

In Volgograd, a 44-year-old prisoner perished in the penal colony No. 3, as a result of the injuries he got when working with an angle grinder. The inspection has started to check the circumstances of the accident, reports the press service of the Department for the Volgograd Region of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN).

The advocate of activists Bairam Mamedov and Giyas Ibragimov, arrested in Baku, was searched at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), and his notes made during the meeting with his clients were examined. The defender believes that the SIZO administration violated his right to confidential communication with his clients and the activists' right to defence.

On June 8, in the Stavropol Territory, law enforcers conducted searches in houses and office of Dmitri Chernov and Roman Voryshev, members of the supporters of the Slavic neo-pagan organization "Stavropol People's Assembly of Russia". From the house of Roman Voryshev, the law enforcers seized books and detained the owner himself, and from the office, they seized office equipment and documentation, Dmitri Chernov reports.

A part of the social care institutions of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) are overcrowded and in urgent need of repairs, members of the delegation of the Human Rights Council (HRC) stated after their trip to the republic. Besides, two detainees in pre-trial prison complained to HRC about tortures.

The investigation into the murder of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", was inefficient, said advocate Tumas Misakyan, who has lodged today a complaint on the case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

In 2015, the banks associated with the family of President Ilham Aliev earned more than 64 million US dollars on the devaluation of the manat, says the report of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), released on June 6.

Boris Vishnevsky, a Deputy of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly, has filed an application to the election commission on holding a city-wide referendum on naming a bridge in the Krasnoselsky District after the first president of Chechnya Akhmat Kadyrov.

Lawyers of the "Public Verdict" Foundation are engaged in preparation of a complaint to be filed to the law enforcement bodies in connection with the detention of its female members in Cherkessk, who were engaged in shooting a documentary film in the city. Officers of the Centre "E" have explained the detention of the women by the fact that they received operative information about their "extremist appearance." Meanwhile, the activists were released after interrogation without protocols drawn up.

The investigating authorities have closed the criminal case on the death of Timur Kuashev, a Kabardino-Balkarian journalist, since the examinations found no signs of toxic substances in his body. This was reported by advocate Zaur Shomakhov.

In the criminal case of the terror act committed at the "Domodedovo" Airport in 2011, the victims receive compensation and recall their claims against the top-managers of the "Domodedovo" Airport, filed in the criminal case. This was reported by advocate Igor Trunov. He has noted that 14 persons have already received compensation.