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The health condition of Zaur Gurbanly, a youth activist of the public movement "Nida" (Shout) and a blogger, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), continues deteriorating. He needs a surgery, his mother Sakina Gurbanova told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

About 50 persons who took part in a protest action held in the Khosta District of Sochi demanded to stop building a 12-storey house in Yaltinskaya Street, as they believe that the construction is illegal.

The Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the appeal complaint lodged by Zaur Gurbanly, a blogger and an activist of the "Nida" public movement, against the court ruling to extend his arrest by three months more. His advocate believes that investigators are deliberately protracting the transfer of the case to the court.

The presidential election in Georgia will be held on October 31 this year. The earlier announced date – October 27 – was wrong, said Andro Barnov, the head of the Georgian presidential administration.

On Monday, the refugees from Chechnya, living in Ingushetia since the 1990s, went on an endless hunger strike demanding solution of their housing problems. In total, 21 persons have declared their intention to take part in the protest.

In Georgia, the 2013 presidential election will be held on October 27, Manana Mandjgaladze, the press speaker of the President of Georgia, has reported. On Monday, Mikhail Saakashvili signed a decree with the date of the next presidential election, she said at a briefing in Tbilisi.

At the trial dealing with bribes in the GIBDD (Road Safety Inspectorate), the statement of the regional FSB on telephone calls was added to the case files. The state prosecutor also said that her report in relation to some investigators of the Investigating Department for the Volgograd Region of the ICRF had caused a procedural check.

Fight of power agents with militants in the mountains of Chechnya, where two persons were killed and more than a dozen others were wounded; detention of a regional parliamentarian in Dagestan; shelling of the police and killing of a suspect at detention in the Stavropol Territory; a fruitless round of Geneva discussions on security issues in Southern Caucasus; the sentence for the murder of the head of the MIA of Dagestan Adilgerey Magomedtagirov; incident in the Volgograd Region, where the unloading dock – an object of cultural heritage – was burned down, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of June 24-30, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Evgeny Zakharov, a member of the initiative group for protection of greenery of the resort city, who was detained during his action near the Sochi administration, is back at large. Law enforcers have no claims to him, said Lieutenant Colonel Victor Biryuchenko, the head of the division of district policemen of the Tsentralny District of Sochi.

The announcement of the verdict to Ruslan Rakhaev, the former deputy police chief of the city of Cherkessk, scheduled for July 1, did not take place. It is expected that the court will announce its decision on July 8 at 2:30 p.m., the Cherkessk City Court has reported.

The construction teams, involved in assembling the equipment of the Olympic Transport Directorate in Sochi, sent an application to the Investigating Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a complaint about the delay of payment of salaries by the boss of the LLC "Sochiprofstroy-15.06".

Till the end of this year, Chechnya will resettle residents of 76 houses, recognized as emergency and dilapidated ones; later, 160 other multi-family houses will also be resettled, said the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of Chechnya.

Tarkhan Kartoev, a resident of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, convicted on charges of blowing up the "Neva-Express" Train, has died in Penal Colony No. 2 (IK-2) of Ekaterinburg. "The telegram was signed by Major V. Mikheev. My son had stayed in the IK-2 for just a week. Today, with my nephew we fly to Ekaterinburg, where my son had been convoyed," Umatgiri Kartoev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

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.