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Those graduates of the boarding school located in Nartan village, Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, who continue writing applications in defence of dismissed school director Liudmila Mamkhegova, were accused of stealing a computer, 17,000 roubles and passports from the study of the social teacher.

Valery Rostovschikov, Ombudsman of the Volgograd Region, made a check, together with employees of the GUVD (Regional Interior Department), of observance of the rights of the persons kept temporary detention facilities (known as "IVS"). Thus, in such facility of the city of Volzhskiy detainees are given meals once a day instead of three times, as prescribed by the law.

On Sunday, June 14, in Krasnodar, 54 workers of one of building companies were hospitalized after eating some bad food.

In the mountainous Vedeno District of Chechnya a small boy was wounded by explosion of an unidentified mine or bomb. He was hospitalized in the state of medium gravity.

Last night in Makhachkala, in a skirmish of two unidentified persons with militiamen a casual passer-by was killed; and in the settlement named Aerodrom, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, three armed persons in masks shot dead a worker of the Makhachkala Department of North-Caucasian Railways and his wife.

Three participants of the protest action held on Monday by refugees from Abkhazia near the building housing the United Nations' Mission in Tbilisi were injured in a road accident.

In the city of Georgievsk, Stavropol Territory, a group of youngsters accused of hooliganism with use of objects as arms were detained. In the evening on June 3, some fifteen guys aged 17-20, armed with tire irons and reinforcing bars went out into streets with nationalist slogans and beat several persons.

At the trial on events of October 13, 2005, held by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, under a petition lodged by defendant Kanshoubi Boriev, whose father died, as break was announced till tomorrow, June 16.

Many oppositionists suffered during attack on the "city of cells". Earlier, Zviad Dzidziguri, leader of the Conservative Party, said that two persons suffered in the scuffle.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) has treated the actions of the policemen who used force against oppositionists last Friday, on June 12, as excessive. Human rights defenders assert that the clash could have been avoided.

The President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity has expressed his readiness to deliver some of his powers to the parliament with the aim to strengthen the position of the legislative power and MPs in his republic.

Bashir Aushev, former vice-premier of the republic who worked until now in the government was murdered in Ingushetia.

In Georgia, the court has found the five oppositionists arrested on June 12 guilty of hooliganism against MPs and brought them to administrative responsibility.

The President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has demanded that top executives cancel their summer vacations until full completion in the territory of the republic of special operations aimed to liquidate members of armed underground formations.

Till the end of this year, the parties plan to start building the pipeline intended for transportation of gasoline and diesel fuel from Iran to Armenia. The pipeline of 380 kilometres will link the Iranian city of Tabriz and the Armenian city of Eraskh.

In Western Georgia, a strong hurricane has torn roofs off 55 houses and broke power supply lines leaving more than 10,000 families without electricity.

On Friday, June 12, over 50 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) of Azerbaijan announced creation of the "Committee in Defence of Civil Society". The aim of the Committee is to oppose adoption of amendments to the legislation, restricting the activities of NGOs.

A source in law enforcement bodies of the region reports that in the course of a skirmish in Makhachkala, where militiamen liquidated the leader of Makhachkala militants, a six-year boy was wounded.

On June 12, Patriarch of Georgia Elias the Second sent a personal letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations asking him to support the territorial integrity of Georgia.

Eka Beseliya, secretary general of the Party "For United Georgia", has reported that as a result of a clash of the opposition with the police that took place near the building of the parliament of Georgia on June 12, 15 members of youth oppositional organizations received traumas.