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On June 1, the lawyer Rustam Matsev, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), sent applications to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, the Public Prosecutor of the KBR and the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), in which he reported about the threats received by him from Colonel Nikolai Zavyalikov, the operative officer of the Chief Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

An educatress of a family group in the Volgograd Region, who, according to the investigation, had severely beaten a six-year-boy for taking a candy without permission, will face trial on charges of intentionally causing grave harm to the child.

Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have failed so far to locate Isa Magamaev, a resident of the Sunzha district of the republic, who disappeared more than three weeks ago under unclear circumstances. His relatives accuse the local MIA of inaction.

Today, the faithful Buddhists of Kalmykia celebrate a holiday – the birthday of Shakyamuni Buddha. In this context, June 4 is declared a day-off.

Start of school exit Uniform State Exam (USE) and violations already fixed in the Astrakhan Region; sentences to natives of Northern Caucasus for committed and failed terror acts; election of Speaker of Armenian Parliament and start of forming the country's new government; sentence to figurant in the case on massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya that caused differing estimates; different viewpoints on the new law on governors in Chechnya and Dagestan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of May 28-June 3, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today hearings on blogger Bakhtiyar Gadjiev’s cassational appeal against denial of conditional early release (CER) were held in the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan under the chairmanship of judge Ali Seifaliev. The Supreme Court granted Gadjiev’s appeal bringing a verdict of CER. The judge decided that the verdict should to executed immediately.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Ingushetia 250 families received new flats in the houses built within the program of citizens’ resettlement from the housing stock under the threat of collapse.

Investigation on a criminal case of four ex-officers of Department of Interior Affairs in Predgorny district of Krasnodar region accused of using violence against local resident Viyacheslav Merekha aged 44 is accomplished, the defendants are under house arrest.

In the city of Taganrog, Rostov Region, seventeen members of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses have seen their charges on the criminal case of extremism; in particular, 14 of them were accused on May 31. Advocates complain that they were unfairly withdrawn by the investigator from defending the majority of the defendants.

The Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University (PSLU) has held a presentation of the book "Bible and Koran: Parallels". Linguists and experts on Islam have welcomed the book.

Today in the morning, at about 7:30 a.m., an armed assault undertaken by three unidentified attackers on the house of a farmer in the village of Razdolnoye, Kuschevskaya District of the Krasnodar Territory, resulted in one casualty.

Nurmagomed Khizriev, who has surrendered today to law enforcers, did not know the owners of the flat, locked in Makhachkala; they just let him in for the night on recommendation of their friend, said Gulnara Rustamova, the chair of the Dagestani public organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

On June 1, the international Children's Day, a rally was held in the Journalists' Mini-Park of the Chechen capital, where activists of a number of public organizations called on the state officials to pay attention to the problems of disabled children and orphans.

Representatives of the Muftiate of the Chechen Republic are checking the work of imams of local mosques.

On June 1, in Nagorno-Karabakh, Vachik Melkumyan, a villager of Nerkin, Tavush Region, who worked on his land plot, was wounded by fire from the Azerbaijani party, said the press service of the Armenian police.

On June 1 and 2, the Rostov Region holds actions to commemorate the tragedy of 1962 in the city of Novocherkassk, where a mass shooting of the workers who went out for a strike took place.

On June 1, in the Georgian city of Zugdidi, policemen demanded from street vendors to abandon the territory of the Central City Marketplace, after which local entrepreneurs held a spontaneous protest action.

As stated today by the State Security Service (SSS) of Abkhazia, the murder on May 28 in the city of Gali of two officers of the local interior division – Leonid Kvitsiniya and Davy Buava – and a local resident Gultazi Kolbaya was committed by the members of a sabotage and intelligence group, sent from Georgia under the order of the Georgian special services.

On June 1, the official opening of the beach named "Ostrovok" (Small Island) was held in the Reduktorny Township, located in the southern outskirt of Makhachkala.

Zalina Khekilaeva from Nalchik has addressed her applications to the Investigatory Department for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the Prosecutor's Office of the KBR, B. M. Zumakulov, Ombudsman in the KBR, and to the Human Rights Centre of the KBR, describing the circumstances of disappearance of her husband Albert Karmov, whose body was found in the "Gardens of Nalchik".