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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.

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.