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Relatives of resident of Makhachkala Magomed Rasulov appealed to the police reporting his disappearance. Father of Esmira Ganieva reported his daughter’s disappearance in the settlement of Akhty, web-site of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Dagestan informs.

Members of the Bar of Armenia announced their plan to hold a one-day strike on June, 11, in this way expressing dissatisfaction with the activities of the judges of the Court of Cassation, lawyer Lusine Saakyan, member of the pressure group for organization of the strike, reported. As of June, 5, there were 100 lawyers ready to take part in the strike.

In Azerbaijan, in the evening of June 5, near the town of Zaqatala, an earthquake measuring 4 points on the 12-point scale occurred, no one was injured.

About 30 persons gathered in Victory Square in Vladikavkaz to attend the last rally, organized by the initiative group "Electrozink. What do we breathe?" against the activities of the factory.

Till the end of the year, the number of returnees, coming from Syria to Kabardino-Balkaria, will increase by 300 more persons, and 150 returnees have already arrived. This was reported on June 5 by Anzor Kurashinov, Chief of the Division of the State Committee on affairs of public and religious organizations in Kabardino-Balkaria, at the seminar on adaptation of returnees from Syria, held in Nalchik.

On June 4, after a break, the Karabulak Court of Ingushetia resumed court hearings on the case against Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, ex-officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), accused of torturing detainees.

Youth organizations of the "Georgian Dream" party coalition protest against felling of trees in Tbilisi. This was announced today by Tatiya Shetakuri, the representative of the coalition, at a campaign briefing.

Agreement between Joint-Stock Company (JSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" and "Dalian Vanda Group Co. Ltd", signed today in Beijing, stipulates investments of up to 3 billion US dollars in development of resorts in Northern Caucasus.

The Shamil District Court of Dagestan postponed court session on the criminal case of beating 14-year-old Makhmud Akhmedov in the building of the police station in connection with illness of Magomed Magomedov, the defendant.

Nineteen residents of Dagestan submitted a lawsuit to federal court of Sovietsky district of Makhachkala demanding to acknowledge their status of veterans of combat operations and oblige Military registration and enlistment office of Kazbek district of the republic to issue veteran’s certificates for them.

Vanadzor office of Helsinki Civil Assembly issued a statement in connection with the situation in which soldier of the Armenian Army Arman Manucharyn whose leg was amputated found himself. The reason for the human rights activists’ interference was a refusal to provide the soldier with a draft card and medical documents as well as procrastination of solving the question of providing the soldier with a prosthetic appliance.

According to Tamar Djizhavadze, the project coordinator and an employee of the Department of Tourism of Adzharia, the most active participants of the "Week of Tourism", organized in Batumi, were young people.

On June 3, residents of the village of Tsibari, the Tsuntin District of Dagestan, came out to hold a rally, demanding to punish those who at night on June 1 killed a teacher and burned down the village school. The villagers were ready to take up arms and lynch the criminals, said Gusen Magdiev, the head of the Tsuntin District.

One month after the incident, six persons injured in the explosion of balloons in Yerevan are still in hospitals of the Armenian capital.

On June 1, the lawyer Rustam Matsev, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), sent applications to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, the Public Prosecutor of the KBR and the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), in which he reported about the threats received by him from Colonel Nikolai Zavyalikov, the operative officer of the Chief Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

An educatress of a family group in the Volgograd Region, who, according to the investigation, had severely beaten a six-year-boy for taking a candy without permission, will face trial on charges of intentionally causing grave harm to the child.

Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have failed so far to locate Isa Magamaev, a resident of the Sunzha district of the republic, who disappeared more than three weeks ago under unclear circumstances. His relatives accuse the local MIA of inaction.

Today, the faithful Buddhists of Kalmykia celebrate a holiday – the birthday of Shakyamuni Buddha. In this context, June 4 is declared a day-off.

Start of school exit Uniform State Exam (USE) and violations already fixed in the Astrakhan Region; sentences to natives of Northern Caucasus for committed and failed terror acts; election of Speaker of Armenian Parliament and start of forming the country's new government; sentence to figurant in the case on massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya that caused differing estimates; different viewpoints on the new law on governors in Chechnya and Dagestan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of May 28-June 3, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today hearings on blogger Bakhtiyar Gadjiev’s cassational appeal against denial of conditional early release (CER) were held in the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan under the chairmanship of judge Ali Seifaliev. The Supreme Court granted Gadjiev’s appeal bringing a verdict of CER. The judge decided that the verdict should to executed immediately.