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The condition of six Turkish citizens and three residents of Adygea, taken to hospitals of the cities Adygeisk and Maikop with a suspected acute intestinal poisoning, is satisfactory, said the republic's Ministry of Public Health.

Resident of the settlement of Karabudakhkent, Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan, Magomednabi Nazhmudinov reports inaction of law enforcement bodies in investigation of the case of rape of his underage daughter. Representatives of the investigation report that the question of initiating a criminal case on Nazhmudinov's statement will be taken only after getting the results of forensic medical examination.

The City court of Tbilisi arrested three representatives of oppositional coalition "The Georgian Dream" for a three-month's term. The representatives of the coalition consider the verdict unlawful and are going to appeal against it in Strasbourg court.

Principals of two schools of the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya are to face trial on charges of embezzling funds from using their official positions. They face 2-6 years of imprisonment.

The Tuapse District Court holds trial on the case of puncture of the tires of the car, belonging to an activist the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", committed on May 15 during the court session on the criminal case against ecologists Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko.

In Yerevan, a pit was dug in the place of shops, dismantled in Abovyan Street. The Mayoralty states that no major construction is underway and that the works will soon be completed. Ecologists demand to stop the construction in the green area of the city.

In Azerbaijan, Mirabad Rzaev, an activist of the civil society "Kura" from the village of Novruzlu of the Saatly District, face a charge under the Article "Use of force against a public official" (Article 315.1 of the Criminal Code).

Ruslan Evkurov, a distant relative of the leader of Ingushetia, failed to return fraudulently obtained five million roubles to residents of the village of Dolakovo. This was reported by Ismail Mankiev, the deputy of the municipal assembly.

Two residents of the Gumbet District of Dagestan-victims of the nature calamity in 2006, have filed a lawsuit claiming illegal inaction of the Ministry of Finance, which has not yet decided on the issue to compensate their material losses.

The administration of the Krymsk District has demanded from volunteers to abandon the tent camp set up in the city centre. About 200 volunteers are packing up their things.

Four young men have been arrested for violent provocative actions during the meeting of territorial officials with residents of Krymsk, said Igor Zhelyabin, the head of the press service of the Chief Department of the Russian MIA for the Krasnodar Territory.

An employee of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Volgograd Region committed a road accident, while driving his car, and knocked down two children and their mother. A seven-year-old girl died in place, said the Investigatory Department for the Volgograd Region of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). According to investigators, the policeman was drunk.

For the first time during the last decades, 150 young men were called up for military service in Chechnya. They will serve in special motorized battalion No 249 of Inner Troops, structural unit of Brigade No 46 of Inner Troops of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia dislocated in the republic on continuing basis.

Members of the movement "Solidarity for Freedom of Media" held a protest action in front of the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia against the confiscation of satellite dishes from the "Maestro" TV Company. The protest action was motivated by the decision of the Georgian Court of Appeal, which recognized the confiscation as lawful.

The convicts' relatives state that after the end of their hunger strike the situation with the "jammers" for mobile communication established in investigative isolation ward (IIW) No 1 of Makhachkala became even worse. Representatives of Department of Federal Penal Service (DFPS) and human rights activists doubt about the possibility of causing damage to people's health by this equipment.

Merab Kachakhidze, member of the National Committee of Conservative party and "The Georgian Dream" coalition was detained by the police in Tbilisi, representative of Press service of the coalition Greta Tsitsava reported.

The Tbilisi Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Tbilisi City Court of the arrest of 10,000 satellite antennas of the "Maestro" TV Company.

Today, the Kirov District Court of Astrakhan dismissed the lawsuit, filed by Oleg Shein to cancel the outcomes of the voting in the Kirov District at the election of Mayor, held on March 4, 2012.

Today, relatives of Viktor Khadaev, the murdered resident of the Ardon District of North Ossetia, came with posters to the building of the Supreme Court in Vladikavkaz. They demand to make a fair decision against defendant Zelim Karaev.

Today, near the building of the Krymsk city administration, a spontaneous rally of the residents, whose houses were affected by the flooding, was held.