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In 2011, the Georgian Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources plans to destroy more than 500 tons of pesticides. The toxic chemicals are going to be exterminated in cement kilns. However, ecologists doubt the legitimacy of such actions because the project and the expert opinions have not been made public.

On June 30, an exploded car with fragments of three human bodies was found in Dagestan near Makhachkala.

Abkhazia denies having taken part in the shooting at the post in Ganmukhuri on the Georgian bank of the river Ingur, which resulted, according to Georgian media, in wounding one policeman.

Dwelling houses and cottages are prepared to be built on the territories of the All-Russia research institute of horticulture and sub-tropic plants in Sochi, used for cultivating selection varieties. In the course of clearing them, bulldozers have already entered a plot with the best selection varieties of tea and hazel-nut.

The Chechen MoI names of law enforcement officers and local residents who suffered from the yesterday's terrorist act in Grozny. According to new information, eight people suffered from the explosion.

FSS criminal expert has found signs of extremism in the article by the murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov "Patriotism as a Diagnosis", published in autumn 2009 in the "Avtonom" magazine.

Yuri Babin, ex-member of Volgograd city council and former teacher of family ethics, suspected of perverting 20 schoolchildren, has partially pleaded guilty but refuses to give evidence.

The Inter-regional Committee against Torture has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights on the torture of Amur Ganaev, resident of Chechnya, who was detained by Chechnya operational service officers in January 2006 and brought to the ОRB-2 (criminal investigation bureau).

Employees of Azeri ombudsman's office have made "a long-term - two-day visit" of Gobustan prison "with the aim of preventing torture and other cases of inhuman or degrading treatment", in the course of which they have revealed facts of exerting pressure on inmates.

Dmitri Novikov, former judge of Khosta district court in Krasnodar Krai, accused of organizing embezzling of 17 "Olympic" land plots in Sochi, has appealed against the permission of the Krasnodar Krai judges' qualification board for bringing him to criminal responsibility on the case of illegal recognition of title for a land plot which is now within the zone of Olympic construction.

Russia occupies 83rd place by the number of women in the bodies of power, with virtually no women in Kalmykia authorities, claimed Natalia Manzhikova, president of non-profit foundation "Gender Equality", at the forum on consolidating women's movement.

Today, during the night, a car was exploded in the village of Mitaghi-Kazmaliar of Derbent district, Dagestan. A twenty-year-old resident was killed.

According to preliminary data, the suicide bomber who exploded himself near the concert hall in Grozny was an Adam Khamidov, resident of Grozny.

The assessments given to Armenia by the international organization Freedom House in its annual report fully coincide with the opposition assessments. This has been noted to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Levon Zurabian, coordinator of the Armenian National Congress, who states that "cleptocratic dictatorship rules Armenia".

The journalist Einulla Fatullaev charged with illegal storage of drugs and already serving his term in prison, is to make a final speech at the trial in Garadak district court of Baku on July 2. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that this decision has been taken by judge Ismail Khalilov upon the results of the today's session.

A group of individuals protest against the amicable agreement with the "Electrozink" works in the capital of North Ossetia near the office of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

The relatives of Aslan and Mukhtar Gandaloevs detained on June 21 in the village of Sagopshi, Ingushetia, and suspected of exploding a shop in the same village have reported about an illegal search in their house. Witnesses claim that violence was applied during the arrest.

During the festival of radio broadcasters "Radio together" held in Moscow on June 26-28, a round table was arranged on the topic "Review of changes in legislation on media", where Michail Fedotov, member of the council under the RF President on facilitating the development of civil institutions and human rights, one of the drafters of the law on mass media, spoke about the drawbacks of the existing law.

The father of one of the militiamen killed in Ingushetia has announced a vendetta to the family of Artur Gatagashev, resident of Malgobek who is in the wanted list, claims Piatimat Kuzikova, Gatagashev's mother.

The Chechen authorities have decided to extend the city subbotnik by ten days. This initiative is negatively met by employees of state budget organizations. Chechen functionaries prefer to "pay off".