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An all-Russian rally of blondes will be held in Sochi today. The only museum and memorial to blondes will be opened within its framework.

Court granted the lawsuit of three journalists of the newspaper "Novoe Vremya" (New Time) against Anatoly Antontsev, the Chairman of Mikhailov City Duma, who did not let the correspondents of this newspaper to attend the City Duma session.

On June 20 the numbering of cellular networks in Georgia has changed. A digit "5" was added to the two-digit cellular codes.

On June 21 in the night, at approximately 4:00 a.m. Moscow time, in the village of Sagopshi of the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons exploded the house, belonging to a local resident. There were no casualties and injured, because nobody lived in the house. The building suffered considerable damage.

According to the decision of the Dzaus District Court of South Ossetia, on June 22, ten citizens of Georgia, who were detained on June 18 by Russian border guards, were transferred to Georgian.

Today the Supreme Court of Dagestan convicted three residents of the republic, accused in the case of a double terror act in Kizlyar, which occurred on March 31, 2010.

The contest of open letters and appeals, published at the interactive sites of the "Caucasian Knot", summarizes the results. The Expert Council of the Human Rights Activists determined the winners. Five authors were awarded.

On June 20 the US warship "Monterey" approached the Georgian port of the city of Batumi for joint military training exercises of the USA and Georgia to combat piracy. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes that the visit of the US ship in the Georgian port, which is not the only case, will not contribute to stability in the region.

Investment agreements of cooperation between Dagestan and “Wintertechnique Engineering” company on realization of investment projects in the territory of the republic have been signed in Austria.

On June, 21, the Parliament of Georgia adopted amendments to the Criminal code in first reading by 101 votes against one according to which the penalty for participation, forming or command of paramilitary groups will be toughened.

There is confirmed data of five lost and twelve wounded officers of law enforcement bodies as a result of a special operation going on in Kizlyar district of Dagestan, Press service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports.

A large-scale special operation against participants of armed underground which started on May, 20, in Vedeno district of Chechnya has not yielded any results yet, a source in the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reports.

In North Ossetia, lawyers and members of the Public Chamber have access to members of Muslim communities who were detained on May 31, stated a session of the Public Chamber of the republic.

Since July 1, subway fare in Yerevan will be doubled. Karen Karapetyan, the Mayor of Yerevan, announced this information.

The prosecutor Andrei Nazarov, speaking in the debates in the Supreme Court of Dagestan, demanded life imprisonment sentence for all three defendants in the case of terror act in Kizlyar on March 31, 2010.

Valentin Yudashkin, the fashion designer, approved the sites for the future garment factory which Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has shown him on June 21. The factory is to be built in the village of Ali-Yurt.

Tigran Arzakantsyan, the representative of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, who won the lawsuit against the newspaper "Erkir" (Country) on the case of honour and dignity defence, intends to transfer the amount of 500 US dollars collected from the newspaper for charity. On June 21 he announced it to journalists.

A group of journalists from Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Georgia and Armenia visit Nagorno-Karabakh. The programme of their visit schedules meetings with government officials, NGO representatives, travelling to remote regions of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev, a former political prisoner, visits Strasbourg at the invitation of the Council of Europe (CE). Within his visit, on June 20 he conducted a series of meetings in various structures of the Council of Europe.

The Court of Trieste declared the decision of the Commission's on Political Asylum, which had rejected asylum for Anvar Sharipov, to be illegal due to insufficient and contradictory motivation, and provided a native of Dagestan with a political refugee status. Giorgio Kamai, the editor of the Media Centre Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, who watched over the detainee's fate from Italy, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.