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A Dagestani prosecutor has revealed violations of penitentiary, sanitary-epidemiological, fire-safety and labour legislation in SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 2 of the Dagestan Department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), located in the city of Derbent.

The advocate of the wrestler Said Osmanov, suspected of vandalizing the statue of Buddha in Elista, expects to change the measure of the freedom restraint of his client for house arrest.

A record from a surveillance camera from the scene of the attack on Shakhbulat Shamkhalaev, a well-known fighter of mixed martial arts (MMA), in Makhachkala has got into the Internet. The athlete was hit by six bullets.

The preliminary investigation of the case initiated against Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity" Movement, and his supporters, accused of committing serious crimes, is over. They will appear before the court together with Fuad Gakhramanly, Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).

Karnik Aslanyan, a defendant in the case of Sergey Zirinov, a Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory, has assured that he was not a member of the armed grouping and not involved in the indicted crimes.

In the presence of the head of Dagestan, members of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) entered into a dispute with the head of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and a Vice-Premier, stating the need to abandon the practice of persecuting for the dissent.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has demanded from law enforcers should use the available video records to identify participants of the brawl in the hospital morgue of Nazran and the theft of the body of Khizir Galaev.

The situation with the Olympic heritage in Sochi should be examined by the law enforcement bodies. This was stated by three members of the commission set up under the administration of the region, who refused to sign the resolution on the houses in the Olympic villages.

Based on the judgement of the Leninsky District Court of Grozny, the "Roskomnadzor" (Federal Service for Supervising Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media) has put the page, containing the article "Islam", of the Internet-based encyclopaedia Lurkmore, into the register of banned websites, said Dmitri Khomak, the project founder.

Despite the protests of local residents and the position of the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, construction works on the bank of one of the Karasun Lakes are resumed. This is reported by the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

Andrei Babushkin, Igor Kalyapin and Maxim Shevchenko have reported about the final decision of the members of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) not to go to Chechnya within a series of outreach meetings in Northern Caucasus.

The Gudermes City Court has satisfied the lawsuit of Magomed Kantaev against the "Rosmorrechflot" (Russian Federal Agency for Marine and River Fleet) and invalidated the contest for the post of Director General of the Makhachkala Commercial Seaport (MCS), because of the fact that Kantaev had not been admitted to the contest.

A powerful explosive device was confiscated from the car of a native of Terek, who, according to power agents, had planned to organize a terror act, said a law enforcement source.

The head of Chechnya has refused to meet the delegation of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) on June 2, if Igor Kalyapin is present there. Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the delegation, has confirmed his intention to visit Chechnya today.

Repairs have started in the apartment house in Grozny damaged by fire at night on May 31. According to the Mayoralty, 10 apartments were seriously damaged; they were poured with water when fire extinguishing. One of the tenants of the house has confirmed that people had refused to go to temporary accommodation facilities and prefer to live with relatives.

On May 31, Ramazan Djalaldinov, a resident of the village of Kenkhi, Sharoi District of Chechnya, who had in April appealed to Russian President with a complaint about the situation in the village of Kenkhi, returned back home with the family.

In the mountainous Vedeno District of Chechnya, federal servicemen opened automatic fire at a group of local residents, mistakenly taking them for militants. One person was seriously wounded, said a source from the district administration.

30 shareholders are preparing a petition to the Mayoralty with a demand to preserve their right to reside in the house in Fadeev Street in Sochi, declared illegally erected. Many buyers of apartments in the new buildings have now nowhere to live, said a participant in the meeting of shareholders.

The investigating authorities have changed the pre-trial restriction measure to Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of the "Armenian National Congress" (ANC).

In Dagestan, the delegation of the Council under the Russian President for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (full official title of the HRC) found no serious violations in the SIZO (pre-trial prison), but revealed the practice of putting people on the so-called "prophylactic register" for their religious beliefs.