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According to activists of a number of Circassian organizations, on 28 June in Brussels for the fault of the Abkhaz delegation, the Day of Circassian Culture at the European Parliament was disrupted. According to their story, instead of that Day, another event – the conference "Abkhazia and Europe – Ways to Mutual Understanding and Rapprochement" – was held.

On June 30, in Nagorno-Karabakh, the human rights organization "Centre of Civil Initiatives" completed a three-year inter-regional project "Strengthening of Women's Capacity for Building Peace in Southern Caucasus" which was launched in March 2010 under the auspices of the Caucasian representative office of the international organization named CARE.

On June 29 in Moscow, about 300 participants of the rally "Derbent is Russia's southern outpost!" passed a resolution demanding from the administration of the city of Derbent to cancel the decision of the assembly of deputies of the city to rename Sovietskaya Street into Geidar Aliev Street.

The advocate of the builder Mardiros Demerchyan, who claimed that he had been tortured by the police in Sochi, has filed a complaint against inaction of the investigator, who is examining the incident. The investigator Artyom Semenets, in his turn, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that all his actions were in compliance with the law.

On June 29, Dagestan hosted, within the campaign "Derbent is Russia's Southern Outpost", solo pickets against renaming Sovietskaya Street in the city of Derbent into Geidar Aliev Street. Within the campaign, a 500-person-strong rally took place in Moscow.

On June 29, several dozens activists of the social movement "Vage Avetyan" gathered in front of the restaurant "Harsnaqar" in Yerevan, where on June 17, 2012, an incident occurred between the restaurant staff and visitors, resulting in the death of a military doctor Vage Avetyan.

The forced migrants from Chechnya who live in Ingushetia have declared their readiness to start a hunger strike in protest against the unfair, in their opinion, distribution of certificates for purchase of housing.

The Sochi police have sent an application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) asking to bring the builder Mardiros Demerchyan, who had claimed being tortured at the police station of the village of Blinovo, to liability for slander.

The reasons for the increased cost of Olympic facilities and the rising expenses for the Olympics-2014 are in the corruption and Olympic-scale of fund embezzlement, said Boris Nemtsov, a co-chairman of the Party "RPR-Parnas", who presented in Sochi his report "Winter Olympics in Subtropics".

The court has granted the petition of the investigation and put the former Dagestani parliamentarian from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party Magomed Magomedov, who was detained on suspicion of organizing mass riots with the aim of helping militants during a special operation. in custody.

On June 29, the Lankaran District Court of Azerbaijan ruled to restrict the freedom of Yadigar Sadygov, an advisor to the head of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, who is accused of hooliganism, by a two-month-long arrest. His defence intends to appeal against the ruling at the appeal instance.

Soltan Semyonov, the incumbent Mayor of Karachaevsk, was put on the wanted list, Sergey Shuvaev, Senior Assistant to the Head of the Investigating Department for Karachay-Cherkessia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

At night on June 29, in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt, four unidentified masked men armed with submachine guns blew up the house of a businessman; nobody suffered in the incident, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.

The Union of Journalists of Dagestan has announced an international contest on the design of a monument to fallen journalists.

As stated on June 28 by Evgeniy Semchenko, the head of the department for assessing the education quality of the "Rosobrnadzor" (Russian Federal Supervisory Service in Education and Sciences), more than 30 officials from education bodies and schools of Dagestan will be dismissed for violations during the unified state examination (USE).

On June 28, 40 persons took part in a protest action held in front of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia demanding immediate release and acquittal of the four young activists of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), now kept in custody.

The parliamentary faction of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party in Georgia stops its work in the supreme legislative body of the country and starts its political boycott in protest against the detention of senior officials of Tbilisi Mayoralty, said the MP Levan Bezhashvili.

In the course of the talks in Geneva on security in Southern Caucasus, delegates of the conflict regions made an attempt to leave one working group and continue working in another one. The co-chairs banned the precedent and stopped the security working group, said the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, explaining the disruption of the talks.

Law enforcement bodies of Armenia are preparing to launch inquiry into activities of Narek Sarkisyan, the Chief Architect of Yerevan, after the statement of the anti-corruption centre of the Transparency International about his possible misuse of powers.

The 145-meter tower of the complex "Grozny City", which was damaged by fire in April, will be restored with the use of new fire-resistant decoration materials by September 30, the city administration reports.