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Authors of the leaflets, which are distributed anonymously at the entrances of apartment buildings in the capital of Azerbaijan, demand to abolish the practice of the ban on hijabs at schools, as it allegedly violates human rights.

In the Astrakhan Region the GIBDD (road police) officers checked drivers' response by staging a road accident involving a child, and watched who of road users would stop seeing the bloodied boy and who would drive by.

Zelimkhan Ozdoev from Ingushetia became the gold medallist in the European Cup competitions on judo, which took place in Slovenian city of Celei on June 19.

Acquittal in the criminal case on slandering Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, passed by court in Moscow; rallies and hunger strike of Dagestani residents who demand to open traffic in the tunnel connecting the centre of the republic with several mountainous districts; verdict of the Supreme Court of South Ossetia on the initiative of the new term of Eduard Kokoity's office; protest rallies in Baku, – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 13-19, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The oppositional party "New Right-Wingers" demands early release of the stage director Soso Dzhachvliani, an activists of the "People's Assembly" of Georgia, who was detained on May 26 during dispersal of the protest rally in central Tbilisi.

During a mission of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent in Khelmand province of Afghanistan soldier Gia Goguadze perished, reported the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia on June 20. He was already the eighth Georgian soldier lost in Afghanistan.

The Moscow Prosecutor's Office confirmed the indictment in criminal case against Aslan Cherkesov, a 27-year-old native of the city of Nalchik, accused of killing Yegor Sviridov, a fan of Football Club (FC) "Spartak", and sent the materials to the Moscow City Court for consideration.

In Abkhazia, the oppositional Republican Party "Forum of National Unity of Abkhazia", headed by Raul Khadjimba declared an intention to nominate its presidential candidate. Nomination will take place at the next congress of the organization.

On June 19 in the village of Znamenskoye, Nadterechny District of Chechnya, a policeman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) accidentally shot and killed a local resident, 21-year-old man.

Six Sochi residents in three cars started today an automobile trip from Sochi around the European Olympic capitals. During the trip they intend not only to talk about preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics, but also to get acquainted with the European experience of waste management.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, on Mount Elbrus, bodies of three soldiers of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) were found. Konstantin Shershov, an alpine skiing instructor, discovered the remains of the perished soldiers.

A year ago, on June 17, 2010, Sapiyat Magomedova, a lawyer of the Bar "Omarov A. S. and Partners" was beaten by militiamen at the Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Division) in Dagestan. As at June 17, 2011, in the case on Magomedova's beating there were no detainees and convicted, a preliminary investigation has not been finished yet.

In the course of the trilateral meeting (Russia, Georgia, South Ossetia) within the Mechanisms for preventing and responding to incidents (MPRI), which was held on June 17 in the Georgian near-border village of Dhwani, the South Ossetian side focused attention on the "violations of the state border in Znaur District" and measures to prevent them.

Today the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has extended for another three months the detention of 56 defendants in the case on the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005. Kazbek Budtuev and Zalim Ulimbashev faced an extension of pre-trial restriction: recognizance not to leave.

Edward Natapei, the new Prime Minister of Vanuatu, stated that he overturns the government's decision to recognize independence of Abkhazia. Mr Natapei also requested Donald Kalpokas, the representative of Vanuatu at the United Nations, to start the process of establishing official relations with Georgia.

Georgian citizens were detained in South Ossetia for violation of the state border. Now the investigative activities are carried out, told the press service of the KGB of South Ossetia the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On June 19 in the evening in Makhachkala a teenager and a child received tangential wounds in a shootout, while Shamil Paizullaev, who led the "Izberbash" grouping of militants, was killed, informed a source from the MIA of Dagestan.

On June 17, the Russian State Duma ratified the protocol on extension of the 1995 bilateral agreement on the Russian military base deployed in the Armenian city of Gyumri.

Starting July 1, the tourists visiting the capital of Adzharia will be able to use public bicycles. 150 of them have been already brought from France for this purpose.

"The European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (CoE) will help Armenia to reach the European media standards," Leila Dervishagich, an adviser for the CoE's cooperation division, said in Yerevan.