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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.

An additional charge will be brought against ex-Prime Minister of Georgia, General Secretary of “United National Movement” pro-governmental party Vano Merabishvily who is under arrest for the period of investigation, Prosecutor General Archil Khbilashvili declared on June 22.

Atam Achmiz, a resident of Adygea, suspected of killing Vice-Premier of Karachay-Cherkessia Ansar Tebuev, is tortured at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the city of Cherkessk, his relatives report.

After the rally in Novokhopyorsk, unidentified persons set fire to the nickel extraction rigs; and several participants of the rally were detained, Leonid Makhinya, an activist of "The Other Russia", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The "suicide belt" found in the house of Sabina Abakarova was planted there by power agents before the search, Sabina's mother told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. She explained the increased attention of law enforcers to Sabina and her cousin Patimat Abakarova by the fact that they knew the suicide bomber Muslimat Alieva, who committed a self-explosion on May 3, 2012.

The GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of the Krasnodar Territory has conducted a check of Sochi policemen's actions under the claim that the builder Mardiros Demerchyan was beaten, and revealed no illegal actions. The police were too hasty to assess the actions of its employees, the advocate of the builder said in his turn.

The city authorities forced the expert company to change the outcomes of the examination not in favour of the victims of the fire that occurred in the house located in Poddubny Street, said Olga Bozhkova, one of the victims. However, administration officials of the Krasnooktyabrskiy District of Volgograd refute the allegations.

Akif Muradverdiev, the former head of the office of the Azerbaijani president, who was arrested on June 20 on charges of contraband, is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan.

On June 20, the Novocherkassk City Court proceeded, at its session on the criminal case against the former Deputy Mayor of Novocherkassk Vladislav Zhuravlyov, to questioning defence witnesses. All of them denied the presence of nationalist appeals in the speech of the defendant.