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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.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Ingushetia 250 families received new flats in the houses built within the program of citizens’ resettlement from the housing stock under the threat of collapse.

Investigation on a criminal case of four ex-officers of Department of Interior Affairs in Predgorny district of Krasnodar region accused of using violence against local resident Viyacheslav Merekha aged 44 is accomplished, the defendants are under house arrest.

In the city of Taganrog, Rostov Region, seventeen members of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses have seen their charges on the criminal case of extremism; in particular, 14 of them were accused on May 31. Advocates complain that they were unfairly withdrawn by the investigator from defending the majority of the defendants.

The Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University (PSLU) has held a presentation of the book "Bible and Koran: Parallels". Linguists and experts on Islam have welcomed the book.

Today in the morning, at about 7:30 a.m., an armed assault undertaken by three unidentified attackers on the house of a farmer in the village of Razdolnoye, Kuschevskaya District of the Krasnodar Territory, resulted in one casualty.

Nurmagomed Khizriev, who has surrendered today to law enforcers, did not know the owners of the flat, locked in Makhachkala; they just let him in for the night on recommendation of their friend, said Gulnara Rustamova, the chair of the Dagestani public organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

On June 1, the international Children's Day, a rally was held in the Journalists' Mini-Park of the Chechen capital, where activists of a number of public organizations called on the state officials to pay attention to the problems of disabled children and orphans.

Representatives of the Muftiate of the Chechen Republic are checking the work of imams of local mosques.

On June 1, in Nagorno-Karabakh, Vachik Melkumyan, a villager of Nerkin, Tavush Region, who worked on his land plot, was wounded by fire from the Azerbaijani party, said the press service of the Armenian police.