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As stated by the participants of the press conference convoked because of the address of Jehovah's Witnesses to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) after the prohibition of this religious community in the city of Taganrog, any persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia is inadmissible. The believers do not exclude an accelerated consideration of their complaint in Strasbourg, while human rights activists prepare their complaint on the law on extremism to the Constitutional Court.

Today in Makhachkala an explosive device was triggered in Akushinsky Avenue near the Tsumadin wholesale marketplace: four civilians suffered.

Today in Nazran unidentified criminals shelled a car with a local resident inside. The driver died in place. Also near the city's marketplace another person was shot dead.

The "First Caucasian" TV Channel has announced its reorganization, reduced the number of programmes and changed the news schedule. According to Georgi Chanturiya, Director General of the Public Television and Radio Broadcasting of Georgia, the decision to go on with the channel will be made depending on the decision of the court in Paris about access to the satellite.

Elections in Georgia and totals thereof; clashes of the opposition with police in Armenia and Azerbaijan; kidnappings in Northern Caucasus; murders in zones of Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zones; Jehova's Witnesses' complaint to the ECtHR; and outcomes of Circassians' Congress, - look these and other events in the review of the week from May 31 to June 6, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

No additional circumstances have been revealed in the new case initiated against Albert Saaev, a native of Dagestan, accused of complicity to members of the armed underground. This is the opinion of his advocate Viserhadji Ibragimov, who hopes for a conditional sentence to his client.

The strongest downpour last night and today in the morning in Chechnya stopped electric power supplies to several dwelling settlements. Currently, repair teams try to restore them.

On June 6, a well-known Azerbaijani journalist Elman Malyev was arrested and handed over to the inquiry, as reported today by the Central Police Department (CPD) of the city of Baku.

Today in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, an action was held in memory of Larissa Yudina, a journalist, who perished twelve years ago: friends and colleagues of the former editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Sovietskaya Kalmykia Today" laid flowers to her tomb.

In Georgia, the nongovernmental organization (NGO) "Georgian Emigrants" has again announced a start of a permanent 24-hour action near the building of the parliament. A similar announcement was already sounded on May 29.

Today, another rally was held in the city of Kizlyar, where demands to the authorities were voiced out to speed up the search of Ahmednabi Nazhmudinov, a native of Cherniayeva village, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, who disappeared last week.

Today at the process on events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik the victim Ilyas Mashbashev gave evidences. On October 13, 2005, he was senior operative agent at Centre "Т". The defendants accused him of torturing them.

Today, in the capital of Azerbaijan the police have dispersed the participants of the protest action organized by the oppositional block "Azadlyg" (Freedom), who demanded the freedom of assembly and fair parliamentary elections. All the protesters were brought to the police station.

Today, the delegates of the congress of Circassian people, which takes place in Karachai-Circassia, have adopted a resolution with a demand to restore the Circassian autonomy within the Russian Federation in the status of a republic.

Implementation of many construction projects in the capital of Armenia is negatively affecting the environment. This was stated on June 5 at the press conference dated to the UN's World Day of Environment by Karine Danielyan, former minister of ecology of Armenia, now the chair of the Association "For Sustainable Human Development".

As from now citizens of Georgia can receive only the new-type biometric passports. Old ones are no longer issued.

In several recent days, various dwelling settlements of Azerbaijan saw protest actions related to the attack undertaken by Israeli militaries on May 31 on the humanitarian caravan of ships sailing to the Gaza Sector.

A protest action against opening of foreign-language schools in Armenia was held on June 4 in Yerevan. During debates at the parliamentary commission around the draft amendments to the Laws of the Republic of Armenia "On Languages" and "On General Education" some 30-40 activists gathered at the building of the national parliament.

The Russian government has stated its intention to erect five modern European-class mountain-ski resorts in the territory of Northern Caucasus within the nearest 10 years.

Azerbaijan has failed to submit an appeal against the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) prescribing to release journalist Einullah Fatullaev. The independent international organization Amnesty International (AI) demands from the Azerbaijani authorities to enforce the ECtHR decision.