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In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, during the week, from June 5 to June 11, 2017, one person was killed; and no information about the wounded ones was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In Sochi, container areas for collecting household waste are littered with garbage. This was claimed by residents and guests of the city. The "Spetsavtokhozyaistvo" utility services company does not manage to take out the garbage because of the overpopulation of the city.

Builders have started dismantling the building of the hostel in Malbakhov Street in Nalchik, although people still live in it. Part of the building is ruined; power and water supplies are off, the tenants have informed.

On June 10, in the Dagestani village of Kubachi, a major theft occurred in the local museum. 94 exhibits, including the sword of Nadir Shah, were stolen. Local residents do not exclude the relation between the crime and a similar robbery of the museum committed in 1993.

In Sochi, the "Kinotavr" Film Festival has summed up the results of the short film contest, and the main prize went to the film "Lalay-Balalay" directed by Ruslan Bratov, a native of Karachay-Cherkessia.

Pyotr Zaikin, an advocate of Murad Amriev, world champion in MMA, who was brought to Grozny after his extradition from Belarus, has explained his client's decision to refuse the defender by the fact that he himself had been painfully perceived by officials in Chechnya since the Ruslan Kutaev's case.

Murad Amriev, an MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) world champion, who was brought to Chechnya after his extradition from Belarus, decided to abandon his lawyer by agreement, Pyotr Zaikin, who is representing the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). Amriev himself reported this to the "Caucasian Knot".

The statements of the athlete Murad Amriev about the respect of his rights in Chechnya were caused by his situation of a hostage: now he is not really harassed, but he cannot express himself completely freely. This is the opinion of the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Over the past week, on June 4-10, the Azerbaijani party violated the ceasefire regime at various sectors of the troops contact line for more than 250 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

This night, in Stavropol, a bottle with a combustible mixture has been thrown to a building of Alexei Navalny's campaign office. Later, it became known that the events in Alexei Navalny's office with involvement of law enforcers ended with the seizure of laptops.

Today, at a press conference, athlete Murad Amriev, released from the police in Grozny this night, has told journalists about the circumstances of his transfer from Belarus to Russia and further transfer to Chechnya.

The Department of Migration of the Georgia Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed Dashgyn Agalarov about the cancellation of the decision on his deportation a day before the expiry of the term in which he was obliged to leave the country, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Marat Ismailov, an organizer of the anticorruption rally in Makhachkala, who has earlier challenged the refusal to sanction the action, intends to hold the event without the sanction of the city administration. The court has obliged the City Mayoralty to sanction the rally; however, the city authorities have still refused to issue a sanction for the action, notes Marat Ismailov.

Athlete Murad Amriev was put on the wanted list for using a forged passport, and there are no other motives for his prosecution, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports. The law enforcers have denied the information about his kidnapping and torture in 2013.

Rustam Yunusov was brought to the FSB in connection with the case against a third person. This was reported by a source from the FSB Department for Dagestan. Musa Abdulkadirov, a defender of Rustam Yunusov, tried to visit his client, but he was not able to see Rustam Yunusov, the "Chernovik" (Draft) reports today.

In Sochi, within the "Kinotavr" Film Festival, the film "Tesnota" (Tightness) by Kantemir Balagov, a 26-year-old film director, a native of Nalchik, was screened for the first time. Initially, the hall was packed, but by the middle of the show, spectators began leaving. At the same time, the critics interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" welcomed the film with enthusiasm.

At the sitting on June 9, the defence of the Chechen publicist Rizvan Ibragimov, accused of extremism, asked the court to exclude the examination of his books from the case files. The court disagreed with defence's arguments.

The athlete Murad Amriev, who was deported from Belarus to Russia and then brought to Grozny, the Chechen capital, was released from the SIZO (pre-trial prison), said Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).

The Council of the Spanish city of Valencia has officially recognized and condemned the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

The State Security Service (SSS) of Georgia has denied the assertion of the Azerbaijani MP Elman Nasyrov that the kidnapping of journalist Afghan Mukhtarly was a joint Georgian-Azerbaijani special operation.