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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has obliged Russia to pay a fine of 244,500 euros on three complaints lodged by Chechen residents.

Many residents of Dagestan, who studied Islam in Syria, were forced to return to Russia. According to some of them, they were not oppressed by local power agents.

On June, 6, about 50 people held a picket in front of the Government of Adygeia in protection of animals demanding to build a garbage- processing plant and protesting against reorganization of the republican Ecologo-biological Center.

Jamaluddin Sharapuddinov who was declared killed during a special operation on May, 26, in the settlement of Chontaul, Dagestan, by National Anti-Terrorist Committee had been tortured to death, the victim's brother-in-law Abdula Ibragimov, resident of the settlement of Komsomolskoye, Kizilyurt district of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today.

On Monday, June, 6, an assault at member of "Memorial" Human Rights Center Bakhrom Khamroev was committed in Moscow. Khamroev was taken to hospital.

The capital of Georgia has hosted a debut of the film by the American film director Renny Harlin "Five Days in August" about the war in South Ossetia in August 2008.

A number of public figures around the world have united to hold a literary contest on the topic of the Chechen War, where the contesters are not only residents of Chechnya and other Russian regions, but also foreigners. Out of the presented works, four have been selected for the final.

Out of 18 Muslims, detained after assassination of the poet Shamil Dzhigkaev, not four but only one - Aslan Biragov - was detained, said Ibragim Dzagurov, Assistant Mufti of North Ossetia.

Residents of the village of Pervokizlyarskoe, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, Saadula Magomedov and Abdurakhman Abusupyanov have been illegally detained and tortured by law enforcers. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Rizvan Abusupyanov, their cousin.

Igor Negerev, a former deputy of the Astrakhan Regional Duma, convicted for an attempt to trip over a GIBDD (road police) inspector and accused of false denunciation of law enforcement bodies, has prepared a package of necessary documents for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), since he believes that both cases were fabricated. The Regional Investigatory Committee refuses to comment on the situation.

A regular soldier Alexei Akhmitsafin, a native of the city of Nyazepetrovsk, Chelyabinsk Region, who is taking his service in Military Unit No. 386246 of Ingushetia, complains of hazing by older soldiers. According to his story, he may not survive the remaining month till his demobilization.

A complete investigation of the events on May 26, when in the capital of Georgia policemen dispersed the opposition rally of the "People's Assembly", "would enhance public confidence in the government and parliament," said Congressman David Dreyer, head of the US delegation, speaking at a briefing in the Georgian parliament.

Valery Pukhaev, head of the police of the Leningor (Akhalgori) District of South Ossetia, has categorically refuted the statement of the Georgia's MIA about his involvement in the attempt to blow up the NATO office in Tbilisi.

The court in the Astrakhan Region has sentenced 17 local residents, including 11 employees of the Krasnoyarsk customs post of the Astrakhan Customs, accused of contraband committed as an organized grouping, said the spokeswoman of the Regional Prosecutor's Office. Eight of them were awarded with real custody terms.

In Yerevan, the court, which considered the lawsuit lodged by the family members of ex-President Robert Kocharyan against the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Skizb Media Kentron", the founder of the opposition newspaper "Zhamanak" (Time), passed a verdict obliging the newspaper to pay 3 million drams (about 8000 US dollars) for libel and insult.

Hearing the case on the appeals filed by the attorneys of Aslanbek Dadaev, Elimpashi Khatsuev and Timur Isaev started in the Supreme Court in Moscow.

Four persons in North Osetia detained after the murder of poet Shamil Jigkaev were released. The investigation brought charges of storage of arms, drugs and extremist printed matter against the rest 14 detained, imam of the local Sunni mosque Kulat Ismailov among them.

On June, 5, actions against the activities of North-Osetian plant "Electrozinc" which according to the participants, discharges a great amount of heavy metal into the atmosphere passed off in Moscow and Vladikavkaz. In Moscow a picket was held in Chistoprudny boulevard and there was a cycle race along the central streets of Vladikavkaz.

Ex-militia major Mikhail Yevseev who had been accused of a number of grave crimes committed in the territory of Chechnya in 2004 will not be made criminally liable. Criminal proceedings against Yevseev were stopped in connection with formerly enacted amnesty.

On June 4, in St Petersburg, the Russian national football team beat their Armenian counterparts 3:1 in the qualifying round for Euro-2012. During the match, nine persons were detained.