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On June 18, lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova filed a complaint to court about inaction of representatives of the investigatory agencies, who were engaged in the investigation into two cases, in which she had been a figurant. According to the lawyer, both cases are closed; however, her personal items, confiscated as material evidence, in particular, her mobile phone, were not returned, and the investigator fails to inform the Information Centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) about closing the criminal case against her.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan exerts pressure on the staff of the "Kura" headquarters. This was stated by the organization's representatives at the roundtable in Baku. According to the representatives of the headquarters, criminal proceedings against Oktai Gyulalyev are being continued, and Ilham Amiraslanov was tortured at the police station.

On June 18, a group of 10 returnees arrived from Syria in Adygea and Kabardino-Balkaria. In total, on June 15-18, 49 returnees came to the republics in three groups. On the coming days, other 42 persons are expected to come to Russia from Syria.

The trial in the case of death of contractor officer Artak Nazaryan began the process of interrogation of the defendants. At the court session, held on June 18, Vaagn Airapetyan answered the questions of the parties and called the charges against him fabricated. Interrogation of the defendants will be continued on June 26.

Relatives of allegedly kidnapped Murad Ilyasov do not exclude that law enforcement agents may be involved in his disappearance. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a son of Murad Ilyasov.

Judge of the Tuapse District Court announced debates in the case against ecologists Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko, who were accused of damaging a fence around the so-called summer cottage of Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory. Public prosecutors demanded to sentence Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko to three years of conditional sentence.

Officers from the Investigatory Committee of the Kirov District of Makhachkala do not give permission for giving out from morgue the body of Iskhaq Magomedov, who was killed, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), on June 10 during a special operation, conducted in the village of Shamkhala. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Ramadan Akhmedov, the uncle of the killed man.

In front of the Georgian Ministry for Affairs of Internally Displacement Persons, refugees from Abkhazia held action, demanding to create normal conditions for accommodation and provision of new apartments.

The title of the Hero of the Russian Federation was awarded to Ruslan Nalgiev, a former policeman from Ingushetia, for his actions during the terror act at the Nazran GOVD (City Interior Division) on August 17, 2009.

On June 15, the Supreme Court of Ingushetia held another session on the case of Ali Dobriev, 26, an employee of the Prosecutor's Office, accused of creating an illegal armed formation (IAF). The defendant said that he had evidenced against himself under the pressure of the investigation.

On June 15, based on an application of a local resident, the Investigatory Division for the Severny District initiated a criminal case on the fact of abuse of service duties by three local policemen, said the press service of the Investigatory Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Aram Gyulnazaryan, a 19-year-old regular soldier, was killed in shelling of Karabakh fighting positions, committed by Azerbaijan. This is reported by the Division of Information and Propaganda of the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh. In its turn, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) accused Armenia of violating the ceasefire in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Policemen filed a complaint to the investigatory authorities of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Rostov Region, asking to institute criminal proceedings against Vladimir Bessonov, the State Duma Deputy, who caused them bodily harm during an unsanctioned rally, held in Rostov-on-Don in December 2011.

Relatives of the Dagestani residents, who serve their terms in the penal colony No. 8 of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, ask to transfer the convicted persons to serve their terms to their homeland or in the geographically nearest republics of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Last night and in the evening of June 17, in Dagestan, three attacks on businessmen at once were committed; one businessman was killed. This is reported by the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Participation of residents of Southern Russia in the oppositional "March of Millions"; formation of government and lawyers' strike in Armenia; court's verdict on Oleg Shein's lawsuit on cancellation of elections in Astrakhan; visit of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE to the region of Karabakh conflict; presenting charges to Mirzaev and restart of preliminary investigation of his case, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of June 11-17, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Service to monitor financial activities of political associations of the Georgian Control Chamber appealed to the Prosecutor's Office with a recommendation to check information on the ruling party's financing of medical services to the population of the city of Samtredia.

Valery Kuznetsov, ex-Prosecutor of the Rostov Region, who seeks reinstatement in office, filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the District Court's refusal to consider the case in the Rostov Region rather than in Moscow.

28 persons became the participants in the five-day ecological action "Clean Forest, Pure Spring", which ended on June 15 in Adygea in the territory of the "Bolshoi Tkhach" Natural Park. The number of the participants included 16 volunteer students and teachers of the Maikop State University, senior schoolchildren of the secondary school No. 4 of the farm yard of Shaumyan of the Maikop District; they cleaned tourist camping areas and equipped springs.

In Tuapse, on the case against ecologists Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko, accused of damaging a fence around the so-called summer cottage of Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, the court dismissed the Suren Gazaryan's motion to challenge lawyer Oleg Kochubin and to conduct self-defence. Besides, the judge dismissed the ecologist's motion to challenge the composition of the court. At present, the court session pronounced a break till 2:00 p.m.