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The Investigating Division of the Sochi UVD (Interior Department) has resumed investigative actions on the case of the journalist Nikolai Yarst, said the lawyer Alexander Popkov.

The convicted natives of Northern Caucasus, who are serving their sentences at the correction facility IK-2, located in the Amur Region, complain that the colony administration does not allow the colony inmates to execute their Muslim religious ceremonies.

Relatives of the prisoners, who serve their sentences at Correction Colony No. 11 (IK-11), located in Stavropol, complain about the restrictions imposed on foodstuff parcels.

The acting head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov does not rule out an amnesty for the militants who will express their intention to get back to peaceful life. He said it in his comment on an open letter a journalist with a corresponding appeal.

In the course of the picket held in Sochi against the construction in the "green zone" of the Primorskaya Embankment, the protesters demanded from the authorities to change the urban policies and take measures to preserve the remaining greenery.

In Sochi, three policemen tried to bring the builder Mardiros Demerchyan for a medical examination appointed by the investigator, who is checking the builder's application that he had been tortured at the police station. The policemen abandoned their intention after interference of the advocate, Demerchyan himself told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The consideration by the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow of the lawsuit lodged by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" against the demand of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office (MPO) to the organization to get registered as a foreign agent, has been repeatedly postponed. The next session is scheduled for June 28.

On June 24, the advocate of Akif Muradverdiev, a former office manager of the president of Azerbaijan, filed an appeal against the decision to arrest his client, as well as to conduct searches at Muradverdiev's home.

Vano Merabishvili, the former Prime Minister of Georgia and now the Secretary General of the pro-presidential party "United National Movement", has been charged with abuse of power in the murder case of a bank employee Sandro Girgvliani, said the Public Prosecutor Shota Tkheshelashvili.

Said Amirov, the ex-Mayor of Makhachkala, who was arrested and dismissed from the post, is in grave health condition in his cell of the "Lefortovo" SIZO (pre-trial prison), said his lawyer Mark Kruter.

The session on the case of the recognition of the monograph "The International Tribunal for Chechnya" to be an extremist material of the Dzerzhinsk District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region has been postponed till July 2, because of non-appearance of representatives of the prosecutor's office, said Alexander Manov, the advocate of Stanislav Dmitrievsky, one of the authors of the book.

The statement of the US Congress that the US-Georgian cooperation on security issues is under threat because of undemocratic processes in Georgia is subject to discussion and does not speak about any crisis in relations between the two countries, said the US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Norland.

The person, detained on June 2 in the city of Derbent, Dagestan, at an attempt to enter Azerbaijan on a false passport, who was accused of committing a series of terror acts in Russia, was arrested, reports the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Koba Todua, Irakli Akhalaya and Ruslan Shamakhiya, accused on the case of acts of torture, recorded on the videos found in the hides in Samegrelo (Western Georgia), reject the charges, their advocates assert.

The state of the wife and son of the Imam of the settlement of Kakhabroso, Untsukul district of Dagestan, who were wounded during firing at the religious figure’s house still remains grave, a representative of Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) in Dagestan reported.

The police in Volgograd district is carrying out searches in the houses of eyewitnesses of the disturbances that followed an action of protest against mining nickel in Novokhopersk district of Voronezh region, the activists report.

Zubeydat Tsarnaeva, the mother of Johar Tsarnaev, accused of committing the Boston terror act, has announced her intention to go to the USA in order to take part in the trial of her son.

Riots occur on the border of the Voronezh and Volgograd Regions, organized by people unhappy with development of nickel deposits; meeting of officials of Georgia and South Ossetia, who discussed the situation in border areas; trial of Ali Taziev with participation of the head of Ingushetia, with an attempt on whom the defendant is charged, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of June 17-23, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Madina Magomedova, Chairperson of regional non-governmental organization “Mothers of Chechnya”, left the hospital where she was undergoing treatment after an attempt of abduction early on safety grounds.