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Today, the Baku Court of Appeal has considered the complaint of Mustafa Gadjibeili, an advisor to the head of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, against his administrative detention; eventually, the activist was left in custody, said his advocate Nemat Kerimli and added that his client was illegally involved in forced labour at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS).

Today, the electricity supply was again disconnected from the house in Astrakhan, where the Porfiriev family live, said Regina Porfirieva. According to her story, people in uniform cut off the power cable that supplied electricity to the house.

The organizers of the June 1 rally "For Particular Actions in Defence of Children and Mothers" in Volgograd have received a confirmation from the City Duma that the resolution of the rally had been received and was under discussion, Nikolai Belikov, one of the organizers told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The officials of the administration of the Chechen capital are conducting raids aimed to reveal abandoned land plots. The plots whose owners do not take care of them shall be withdrawn, said a source from the Mayoralty in Grozny. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the source that this work is active since June 3.

The Tsentralny District Court Sochi has obliged the city administration to provide comfortable housing to the family of 12 persons, now living in a house, which can collapse any time. A source from the Mayoralty said that Sochi has no vacant municipal housing; and the court decision will be appealed against. Court marshals are pessimistic about the chances of families off the waiting list to receive housing.

The lawyers Sapiyat Magomedova and Musa Suslanov report about received threats and demands to refuse from representing the interests of relatives of Gamzatov brothers killed in Kizlyar. As reported by a source from the local MIA, the police are conducting a check of the lawyers' complaint.

On Wednesday evening, the emergency service of the "Astrvodokanal" restored the water supply to the house of the Porfiriev family, which was cut off by unidentified persons from gas, electricity and water supplies on June 4.

On Wednesday, a rally was held in front of the office of the Georgian Ombudsman in Tbilisi in support of Tsotne Mamulashvili and Jaba Lomidze, accused of robbing a pawnshop. The action in their support was organized by representatives of the civil society who are familiar with the Mamulashvili family by publications in the "Livejournal" and in the social network Facebook.

The lawyer Gurban Mamedov, who knocked down a man by his car, later threatened to kill him, the Baku police has reported today. The lawyer told the court on June 4 that the materials of his criminal case had been falsified. In the opinion of Ali Kerimli, the leader of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), Mamedov's arrest was "politically motivated."

After switching off the gas, water and electricity supplies to No. 14 inAmurskaya Street in Astrakhan, where the Porfiriev family lives, none of the city agencies responsible for delivery of public services has stated involvement in any works there. In this regard, Alexander Kamanin, a Deputy of the local Duma, asked the prosecutor to take action to protect the Porfirievs.

The participants of the three-day hunger strike have adopted a resolution demanding to open a rehabilitation centre for disabled children and equip them with all the necessary rehabilitation and technical facilities.

The today's session of the Oktiabrsky District Court of Krasnodar has considered the investigators' motion on extending the custody of Professor Mikhail Savva from the Kuban State University (KSU). The court has decided to leave him behind bars till August 11.

The schools of North Ossetia have revealed – in the course of the Unified State Examination (USE) in the Russian language, mathematics, biology and history – seven violations and facts of putting the exam results on the Internet. This was announced by Alan Ogoev, the Minister of Education and Sciences of North Ossetia, summing up the subtotals of the USE.

A sanctioned picket of defrauded housing investors was held in front of the UVD (Interior Department) for the Tsentralny Region of Krasnodar. The action was attended by 10 people who demanded to prosecute the developers who failed to fulfil their obligations.

On June 4, the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev signed the law "On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijani Republic", adopted by the Parliament on May 14. The amendments criminalize defamation and insults spread through the global network. By the severity of punishments, defamation (slander) and insults on the Internet are equated to the same acts in the real world.

A Sochi court has ruled, based on the suit lodged by the city administration, to demolish a toilet and a woodshed owned by residents of an apartment block with partial amenities in Akatsij Street. According to the administration, the toilet and the shed at the house that is not connected to a central sewer and with stove heating are unauthorized structures.

The advocates who work in the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) are facing active opposition of power and investigating bodies. This is stated in the report of the Amnesty International (AI) entitled "Face to face with injustice: threats and pressure on lawyers in Northern Caucasus".

A historical and cultural examination of the unloading dock (floating jetty), located near the farmstead of Bobry in the Volgograd Region, is over: the building should be placed under state protection.

The court hearing on the case of a tourist's death in the attraction named "Zorb" in Dombai has been rescheduled for June 17 due to the illness of the defendant's advocate, said Arthur Urusov, the spokesman of the Karachay District Court.

Today, the house inhabited by the members of the Porfiriev family in Astrakhan was disconnected from electricity grid; and then the developer cut off the gas supply, Regina Porfirieva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.