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Residents of the city of Sochi have complained that due to power outage for almost 24 hours in the neighbourhood "Gagarinsky" they suffered material losses because of spoiled foodstuffs, medicines and broken electrical appliances.

Today, the Court of Arbitration of the Stavropol Territory has held a session on the combined process dealing with the construction in process in Kulakov Avenue, where earlier employees of the city administration saw signs of a mosque. The trial was adjourned until July 8.

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Andrei Gonibov, a former helicopter pilot-navigator from the special-purpose aviation detachment of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), is seeking reinstatement at work and claims that he was dismissed on trumped-up reasons.

Today, at public transport stops, activists of the initiative group "We'll pay 100 drams!" were handing out leaflets calling to dismiss the head of the transport department of Yerevan Genrik Navasardyan and the director of "Yerevantrans" Misak Ambartsumyan.

An action in support of the four oppositional activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), convicted of disorderly conduct and resistance to the police, was held today in Yerevan. The participants demanded a fair consideration of their cases by the Court of Appeal (CoA).

The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has reduced the sentence to two defendants on charges of riots in the village of Sagra, Sverdlovsk Region, during which a native of Azerbaijan was killed. Artyom Rabadanov and Shota Katamadze were released in the courtroom.

The Prosecutor's Office will fail to win the case at the Court of Appeal (CoA), if disputes the verdict of acquittal, passed in the case of Bacho Akhalaya, the former Minister of Interior and the former Minister of Defence of Georgia, said his advocate Malkhaz Velidjanashvili.

The Investigating Division for Yekaterinburg of the ICRF has dismissed the application of relatives of Tarkhan Kartoev who asked to open a criminal case on the fact of his violent death during his stay in quarantine of Colony No. 2 in Yekaterinburg, said the lawyer Tatiana Okushko.

Law enforcers of North Ossetia have detained the 23-year-old resident of Ingushetia Igor Podgorny in order to put pressure on earlier detained his elder brother Arthur, said their mother Valentina Podgornaya.

Tsotne Mamulashvili, a painter and a former expert of the NATO Information Centre, involved in the case of the pawnshop robbery in Tbilisi, has been released by the court on bail of 15,000 laris (about 9000 US dollars) for his health reasons. This was reported by the lawyer David Dadiani.

Today, a Sochi court chaired by Judge Nikolai Vaschenko has considered a motion lodged by investigator Karina Matveeva who asked to extend journalist Yarst's home arrest by a month. The motion was granted, but the journalist's defence intends to appeal against the ruling.

At a court session, ecologists Mariam Sukhudyan and Gevorg Safaryan have spoken in support of their colleague Egiya Nersisyan, accused of defamation and libel in respect of the Canadian company "Dino Gold Mining".

Argishti Kiviryan, an activist of the movement against increase of public transport fares, who was detained today in Yerevan, is back at large, after drawing up a protocol on non-fulfilment of a policeman's demand.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has completed the investigation into the case on riots in the village of Sagra, during which a native of Azerbaijan was killed. During the court session, all motions filed by participants of the trial were dismissed with motivation that the court of first instance had examined in details all the necessary materials.

Members of the programme "Georgian-Russian Dialogue for Peace and Cooperation" have visited village on the border of Georgia with South Ossetia. Villagers said that the border line built by the authorities of South Ossetia and Russian border guards had split their houses, forcing them to quit them, and deprived them of their land plots.

A group of five Russian tourists was detained on the territory of South Ossetia. This was reported by Sergey Kolbin, Chief of the South Ossetian Border Guard Service. According to his information, at present, four out of the five detained tourists have been already fined and deported to Russia.

According to the experts' conclusion, the DNA samples, found on the pistol and on the place of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, do not match the DNA samples of the defendants. Today, the conclusions of the conducted examination were announced today at the trial at the Moscow City Court by Prosecutor Boris Loktionov.

Musa Pliev, a lawyer from the Moscow Bar, the defender of Khalimat Rasulova, a native of Dagestan, who was detained on suspicion of attempting a policeman's life, states that the allegation against his client was incorrectly qualified.

In the opinion of Gasan Aigunov, the chairman of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) in the Republic of Dagestan, the case Patimat and Sabina Abakarova, in whose house in Makhachkala, as claimed power agents, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found, will soon fall apart.

In Tskhinvali, the ten-apartment building, occupied in this March by people in need of improvement of their living conditions, is the object under construction, and tenants have unlawfully occupied the apartments and will be evicted. This was announced at a meeting by Rostik Khugaev, Prime Minister of South Ossetia.