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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.

In 2009, special agencies detained a man, who was preparing 12 terror acts in Moscow. This was stated today by Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) at a press conference.

On June 1, 2010 in the centre of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in the Journalists Mini-Park, women, whose relatives disappeared in 2000-2010, held a picket. Their action was dated to the International Children's Day. Over 50 women held photos of their sons, brothers and fathers. The regional organization named "Parents' Alarm" was the organizer of the action.

Aslan Patiev, a student of a higher school in Stavropol, is suspected of participation in the explosion in Stavropol. This was reported by his mother Khadizhat Patieva, a resident of the city of Magas, the capital of Ingushetia, who told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the circumstances of her son's detention. The woman asserts that he was called by a telephone call to Bekkhan Atigov, head of the republic's Security Council.

It became known today that the FSB agents killed on June 1 in the course of a special operation in Dagestan were engaged in searching people involved in the terror acts committed on March 29 in Moscow metro. This was reported by Alexander Bortnikov, head of the FSB, today at a press conference.

On June 2, the Garadag District Court of Baku chaired by Ismail Khalilov continued the litigation on the new case of the earlier convicted journalist Einullah Fatullaev, this time accused of illegal drug storage.

Aage Borchgrevinkg, an adviser of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, was monitoring the local government elections in the Samtskhe-Dzhavakheti region of Georgia. According to his story, plenty of violations were registered at polling stations.

Today in Armenia, the police have again hampered young members of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) to hold their sit-in protest action by not admitting them to the Freedom Square.