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This week, Mikhail Fedotov, Chairman of the Presidential Council on Development of Civil Society and Human Rights received two applications from the council members who decided to quit it. Thus, 27 out of 40 initially approved members continue to be its members.

Georgian law enforcers have detained Djuba Maruashvili, the coordinator of the project for resettling South African Boers to Georgia.

The spokesman of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has disclosed the names of all those killed today during the special operation in Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk, including Rustam Gasanov, the leader of the Kizlyar grouping, his wife, three suspected militants and the owner of the apartment, in which all the six were shot dead.

A number of Georgian opposition parties have addressed the Constitutional Court against the new rules of financing political actors in Georgia under the Law "On Political Association of Citizens". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Nata Tsereteli, the head of the press service of the "Free Georgia".

At an attempt to bring witnesses of the fight at the "Evropeiskiy" Trade Centre (TC) to the investigator, policemen detained 18 students of the Maimonides State Classical Academy. Its Rector states that the students were beaten, while policemen behaved illegally.

Magomed Cherkesov, the father of Aslan Cherkesov, convicted for the murder of a Moscow "Spartak" football fan, was killed in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The suspect of the murder has been detained, said a source from the Baksan Inter-District Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department for the KBR of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Following the court ruling, on June 5, the Public Television of Armenia (PTA) refuted in the news programme live on air the false information about the religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses. The believers of this community welcomed both the ruling and the action of the television.

Today in Sochi, local residents have once again stopped heavy construction equipment, which, as stated by the city authorities, is needed to carry out geological surveys in the place of the planned construction of the thermal power plant (TPP) on the Kudepsta River. Today, the protestors were addressed by Alexander Zvyagin, a Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory, who was unsuccessfully trying to convince them of the need to build the TPP.

Colonel Andrei Zaichenko, Commander of the "Ashuluk" Training Range, located in the Astrakhan Region, has been convicted conditionally for the negligence that led to the death of a soldier, the Chief Military Investigatory Department of the ICRF, has reported today.

The Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RSMF) have made a test launch of a "Topol" intercontinental ballistic missile from the "Kapustin Yar" Training Range, located in the Astrakhan Region. The training warhead of the missile hit the conventional target on the training range in Kazakhstan with the preset accuracy, said Colonel Vadim Koval, the spokesman for the RSMF. At the same time, residents in Russia and other countries, who watched the missile in the sky, took her for an UFO (unidentified flying object).

The criminal case on the fact of death of Imadibir Makhiev, a 16-year-old resident of the village of Karata of the Akhvakh District, the pupil of the 11th form, was brought to examination to Yessentuki to the Investigatory Department of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). This was told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Denga Makhiev, the uncle of the deceased teenager.

At night on June 7, at one-hour interval, in the city of Labinsk of the Krasnodar Territory, two private houses, standing opposite each other, burst into flames. A 45-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man suffered in the fire. The fire was caused by a leakage in the gas pipeline.

The Armenian government will allocate 20,000 euros to the Ministry of Justice for payment of compensation to two members of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, stipulated by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Three persons, injured in gas explosion and fire in the cafe "Bellagio", have filed lawsuits to the Central District Court of Volgograd to demand compensation for moral damages. One of the victims, in accordance with the decision of the Court, will receive compensation of 200,000 roubles.

In Kutaisi, in Georgia, Grigol Ambrolauri, Mikhail Meskhi, and Mikhail Amashukeli, representatives of the political coalition "Georgian Dream" headed by businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, were detained. They are accused of bribing voters. This was reported by the press service of the Chief Prosecutor's Office of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.

In Kislovodsk, the criminal case was instituted against the paediatrician, who failed to assign necessary medical treatment for a 6-month-old infant, and that fact resulted in the infant's death. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Stavropol Territory.

Immigrants from Syria in Abkhazia received Abkhazian passports. Six of them have been employed. According to the returnees, the adaptation process is successful, and they are happy to learn Abkhazian language. Three children will go to school in September, and other three to kindergarten. This was stated by Zurab Adleiba, Chairman of the State Committee for Repatriation.

On June 6, at the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", stated that charges against him fall under the articles on libel and contempt of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan and asked to re-qualify them. However, the Judge dismissed the motion, stating that it could be considered at subsequent stages of the judicial investigation.

In Volgograd, court fined three activists of the movement "For Fair Elections", who participated in the gathering in the city centre against the decision of the Russian State Duma on increasing fines for participation in mass events. This was reported by Artyom Panenko, the lawyer of the movement "For Fair Elections".

In Nazran, the memorial to the memory of victims of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict of 1992 was opened. Next to him, a mosque and a prayer house were built. Opening of the memorial was dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Ingushetia.