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The investigatory bodies have announced their main version of the murder of Maksud Sadikov, the Rector of the Makhachkala Institute of Theology, who was shot dead on June 7. It was, according to the investigators, in his professional and social activities, where he actively opposed radical Islamic groupings.

At present, the office of the Human Rights Centre of the Chechen Republic (HRCCR) in Grozny is not functioning; and its head Minkail Ezhiev is looking for a new premise for his organization. This was reported by Kheda Saratova, head of the "Objective" Information-Analytical Centre.

The OVD (Interior Division) of the city of Gudermes (Chechen Republic) refuses to give out the body of Shamil Omarov, a resident of Dagestan, without a certificate about the composition of his family and a document from the Investigatory Committee that he was not a militant, his father told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has ruled in absentia to arrest Rustam Altemirov, another suspect of committing the terrorist act in the "Domodedovo" Airport.

Today, the press centre of the RIA "Novosti" in Moscow hosted a press conference of the Working Group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for the Caucasus on the topic: "From Nalchik to Vladikavkaz: Brink Between Justice and Reality". Maxim Shevchenko, the head of the Working Group, treated the trial on the case of the attack on power agencies of Nalchik in 2005 as "unprecedented"; while the journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova spoke about human rights violations at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where the figurants in this case are kept.

Participants of the "People's Assembly's" meeting of protest who had been considered missing after dispersal of the action on May, 26, were found in investigative isolation wards of Tbilisi, People's Defender of Georgia Georgi Tugushi declared.

Maksud Sadykov, a public and religious figure well known in Dagestan, Chancellor of the Institute of Theology, was killed at the moment of firing at a car in Makhachkala. His nephew Zelimkhan Musaev perished together with him, Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Dagestan reported.

During the week of May 23-29, the glowing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 17 human lives; at least two more persons were wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

During the trial on the murder of Ruslan Yamadaev the defendants were exposed to pressure and received direct threats. This was stated by Aslanbek Dadaev, Elimpashi Khatsuev and Zaur Samkhanov, the latter's advocate, at the session, where their cassation appeals were considered.

A native of Chechnya perished in Nice, while trying to escape from the police during an anti-terrorist operation, a source from the French police reports.

According to preliminary information, three persons were killed in Makhachkala, when a car was shelled by unidentified assailants. Among the casualties were the rector of one of Islamic Universities and his son, the press service of the Dagestani MIA reports.

Funeral of President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh; verdict of guilty in the case of murdering Chechen Israilov in Vienna, in which head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov had figured; meeting of the Presidential Council for Human Rights in Makhachkala; another victim in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, - look these and other events in the review of the week of May 30-June 5, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Shamil Omarov, a villager of Sultanyangiyurt, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped by unidentified persons on May 28, was found dead in the city of Gudermes in the Chechen Republic.

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.