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State corporation “Health Resorts of Northern Caucasus” officially refuted the reports that UNESCO banned building of North-Caucasian tourist cluster.

Tragedy instead of feast – victims of gas explosion at wedding party in Vladikavkaz die; first nominations for presidential election in Abkhazia; adoption of the law on distant pastures in Kabardino-Balkaria, which caused disputes among local indigenous nations; sentence to persons guilty of children's death in the Sea of Azov; transformation of oppositional "octet" into "sextet" after negotiations on electoral legislation in Georgia, – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 27-July 3, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Sochi on the visiting session of the Council Russia-NATO the Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke for the creation of two missile defence systems, while Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, defended the principle of a sectoral approach to cooperation.

Today the officers of the Interior Division for Grozny District of Chechnya detained a teenager who, according to the law enforcement agents, nearly blinded the pilot of the aircraft. An attempt of blinding took place on July 3 in the evening, when the plane was landing at the airport of Grozny.

Today in Yerevan at the dolphinarium "Nemo" the Armenian ecologists held the picket for protection of dolphins. Ecologists pointed out the inadmissibility of putting wild animals into captivity, which, according to the scientists, leads to severe psychological consequences for the animals.

In the Moscow City Court Judge Andrei Rasnovsky announced the decision on the criminal case on the football fan Yegor Sviridov's murder. The petition from the defence on consideration of the case involving the jury was satisfied. The defendants remained under arrest, reports the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from the scene.

Today in Azerbaijan residents of four villages of Sabirabad District held the second for the last week mass action, demanding to pay full compensation for the damage which they suffered during the floods of May and June 2010 in the Kura and Araz Rivers.

On July 5 the Supreme Court of Dagestan will consider the appeal of the Prosecutor's Office of the republic to the verdict of the Lenin Federal Court of Makhachkala dated May 19, 2011. The Prosecutor's Office demands to cancel the acquittal of the journalists of the Dagestani weekly newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft).

Sergei Kaziev, the defendant in the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, which is under proceedings at by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, filed a motion for consideration of the case without his presence due to health deterioration. Today's court hearing was adjourned until Thursday, July 7, due to Sergei Kaziev's disease.

UNESCO Committee of World Heritage expressed its concern about the plans of “Health Resorts of Northern Caucasus” public corporation to build a health resort Lagonaki in the territory of an object of World Heritage “Western Caucasus”.

The trial on the case against the twenty-seven-year-old native of Nalchik Aslan Cherkesov accused of murder of “Spartak” football fan Yegor Sviridov will start in Moscow city court today. According to the defendant’s attorney Dmitry Pankov, he intends to ask for holding the next session in camera.

The search of the group of gunmen who on July, 2, started skirmish with members of power ministries in a mountainous and woody area of the highland district of Vedeno has ended in failure. The officers do not rule out that the participants of a paramilitary group under the command of Gakaev brothers could have left the blocked area in several small groups.

Magomed Evloev and Alikhan Dovtaev, residents of the village of Nesterovskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, were detained on suspicion of possessing weapons and explosives. They are held in the IVS (temporary isolation facility) in Ingushetia, reported a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the republic.

Starting July 1, citizens of Georgia are able to visit Turkey with identity cards. This is stipulated in the agreement signed by the Georgian President and the Turkish Prime Minister on May 31, 2011.

On July 4 the dolphin defenders in Yerevan will hold protest rallies. The protest actions are dated to the World Week for Captive Dolphins, which is held the first week of July.

The fifth victim, injured in the blast of a gas cylinder at a wedding party in Vladikavkaz, died.

Today in the city of Stepanakert the second youth international festival of classic music "Tndjre" was opened. Musicians from Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Singapore and Austria took part in the festival.

Today Davud Israpilov, a resident of the village of Khutrakh of Tsuntin District, who was considered as disappeared since June 24, was found beaten in the Kirov District of Makhachkala, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Magomed Yusupov, Israpilov's uncle.

Representatives of the Armenian society, concerned about the continuing emigration from the country, sent a letter to Ovik Abramyan, the Speaker of the Parliament of Armenia, and to Tigran Sarkisyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, urging the Armenian authorities to take measures to reduce emigration, which is developing into a "national disaster".

Today about 11:30 a.m. Moscow time Alim Amshokov, a local resident, born in 1983, was killed near the bridge over the Nalchik River in Keshokov Street in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria during a special operation.