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Employees of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Elborus District of Kabardino-Balkaria have prevented a terror act in the high-mountainous city of Tyrnyauz. This was reported by the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

On June 4, Khakan Karadag, the lawyer who represented at trial the interests of the family of assassinated editor of the Armenian newspaper "Akos" Grant Dink was found hung up in his apartment in Turkey.

Today in Makhachkala, after the end of the Friday prayer, at the exit from the mosque located in Aligadji Akushinskiy Avenue, two parishioners were executed.

Today, Fatima Margieva, a teacher of the South-Ossetian University, who was accused of illegal arms keeping and was kept in custody until today, was released right from the Tskhinvali City Court.

With support of the Inter-Regional Committee against Torture (IRCAT), Roman Gastemirov, a resident of Grozny, who was tortured by militiamen and then tried for five years to seek justice in Russia, has addressed the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg.

Today, Ingushetia celebrated its Day of Republic, but the holiday was accompanied by explosions, as a result of which three persons were lost and about a dozen - wounded.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia is highly worried of the renewed Georgia's terrorist activity. This is stated in the MFA's document disseminated today on the occasion of the recent casualties of attacks - Gennady Kvitsiniya, an employee of the State Customs Committee, who was killed on June 1, and Dmitri Katsiya, head of the administration of Rep village of the Gali District, who was murdered on June 3.

In the evening on June 3, in front of Azerbaijani embassies in London and Moscow human rights activists held their actions with a demand to release journalist Einullah Fatullaev from his imprisonment. In Azerbaijan, heads of mass media voiced a similar demand.

Prosecutor's office of Chechnya filed a lawsuit against an active rebel Anwar Labazanov, an alleged spokesman of the Caucasian insurgents' leader Doku Umarov, for incitement to national or religious hatred or enmity. Video speech titled "Reminder for militiaman" made by Labazanov and posted on a rebel website encouraged prosecution.

Patients of the Chechen health care institutions assert that despite their medical insurances they have to pay for medical services. According to the ministry of health of Chechnya, about 90% of residents in the region carry the mandatory medical insurances (MMI) to date.

Ombudsman in Ingushetia Jambulat Ozdoev and the Ingush regional department of "Association of Russian Lawyers" jointly intend to render the legal aid to the residents of the republic.

Today in the morning, unidentified persons shelled the beer pub "Arma" located in Datueva Street in Khasavyurt, Dagestan, from a grenade launcher. Nobody suffered, but the premise was strongly damaged. Local residents link the incident with militants' threats to traders in alcohol.

Isa Yamadaev is pleased with the ruling of the Moscow region court that has sentenced today Khavazha Yusupov, a native of Chechnya charged with trying to assassinate Yamadaev in the summer of 2009. After sentencing, the businessman himself said this, having pointed out that only the principal offender was penalized.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged the Russian Federation to pay compensation of 60,000 euros to the widow and mother of a Chechen of 22, who was kidnapped and disappeared in the course of a military operation in Chechnya.

The Georgian NGO "Law and Freedom", which monitored the voting process at special polling stations for military servicemen at municipal elections on May 30, states that "the servicemen's right to free choice was violated"; they were ordered to vote.

Eka Beseliya, leader of the Public Movement "Solidarity with Illegal Prisoners", demanded explanations in the Ombudsman's office from the Probation Ministry about organization of voting at local elections of pre-trial detainees.

Ani Gevorkyan, a journalist of the oppositional newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time), who was kept in custody since June 1 was released under recognizance not to leave. This was reported by her advocate Lusine Saakyan.

According to the family of Marat Gadzhimuratovich Satabalov who died on 6 May 2010, Marat was beating to death in the Kazbekovsky district interior division by its officers. The beating could have dealt with interconfessional differences, the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" informs.

Attorneys of Rasil Mamedrizaev who was sentenced today for the murder of the leader of the Dagestan branch of the "Yabloko" Party Farid Babaev have not decided yet whether to appeal against judgment of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, said advocate Suleiman Azuev.

The independent human right organization "Amnesty International" held on 3 June a picket outside the Azerbaijani embassy in Moscow. Picketers demanded the release of a jailed Azeri journalist Eynulla Fatullayev.