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Human rights defenders have doubts as to appearance of Maskhud Abdullaev, son of Chechen field commander Supyan Abdullaev, who was deported from Egypt, on air of one of TV Channels of Chechnya.

The Kazan-based Company "Royal Time" will build the first casino in the gambling zone "Azov-City", which is created in the border of the Krasnodar Territory and Rostov Region, before the end of 2009.

A source in law enforcement bodies have reported that in the outskirt of Nechaevka village, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, unknown persons have shot dead four local residents.

The attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov was committed not by a mentally sick person or drug addict, but by a cool-hearted and cruel killer, confident of his rightness, the operative-investigatory group reports.

On July 2, South Ossetia will start battalion tactical exercises without combat shooting of the 4th Military Base of Ministry of Defence of Russia. The exercises will be held at the training range in Tskhinvali District, some 20-25 kilometres to the north of Tskhinvali.

As a result of shelling and blowing up of a car near the militia station of the city of Derbent, one militiaman was killed in situ and four others received wounds of various gravity. Witnesses say that 8 peaceful residents were wounded.

Starting from July 1, in Azerbaijan, the price for natural gas, delivered to the population, goes up from 47.2 manats (56.6 US dollars) up to 100 manats (about 120 US dollars).

The international human rights organization Amnesty International has stated that human rights are still violently broken in Northern Caucasus, while access of NGOs to the region is hindered.

The main base of the mission of OSCE observers in Georgia, located in Karaleti village, Karel District, has ceased to exist today.

Russian inquiry bodies have resumed their investigation into the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, former editor-in-chief of Russian Forbes, as reported by Larissa Maslennikova, who is representing the interests of the Khlebnikovs.

Maskhud Abdullaev, son of Supyan Abdullaev, a close associate of leader of militants Doku Umarov, a student of the Al-Akhsar University, who was deported from Egypt, is nowadays in Chechnya.

Maksharip Khidriev, a resident of Ingushetia, accused of taking part in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, has stated that he was tortured by electroshock during inquiry, and "interrogations took place in the forest and a cellar."

The newspaper "Corruption and Crime", the editor-in-chief of which Vyacheslav Yaroshenko died on June 29 in Rostov-on-Don, will be continued, as stated by Sergey Sleptsov, its deputy editor-in-chief. According to his story, the paper materials are now published in other editions, but the paper as such will resume in autumn.

Within the territory of nine settlements of the Elborus District of Kabardino-Balkaria - Tyrnyauz, Kendelen, Bedyk, Bylym, Tegenekli, Terskol, Elborus, Neitrino and Verkhni Baksan - today, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced.

The Toyota car, which was used as a tool for undermining the cortege of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, was driven by a man, as reported by the spokesman of the investigation.

Irakliy Aladashvili, editor-in-chief of the Georgian independent military-analytical magazine "Arsenali", believes that Mikhail Saakashvili's government is not as aggressive now as last August, and Russia has no pretext for war with Georgia.

Today, Turkish media report that signing of the intergovernmental agreement on the "Nabucco" energy project, which had been planned for mid-July, can be postponed because of unsettled problem of filling in the trans-Caspian gas main with gas.

The parliament of Georgia plans to officially forbid any use of special structures for blocking roads in the course of protest actions. Currently, the respective amendments are prepared to the Law "On Assemblies and Manifestations".

On June 30, the first group of military observers of the United Nations Mission will leave Abkhazia. By July 15, this will be done by all the military observers and workers of the police component of the Mission. This was reported today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Edmond Mulet, Assistant to UN Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations.

As of today, under the amnesty law adopted by the Parliament of Armenia on June 19, 215 persons have been released.