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Today, policemen have detained Anar Abdullah, an activist of the Azerbaijani "Nida" movement. He was taken to the 18th station of the Narimanov District Police Office. According to "Nida" movement, this is the fifth activist of the movement, detained in Azerbaijan over the past 18 days.

Relatives of all the residents of Ingushetia, killed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) on May 26 have received their bodies from the morgue, the republic's Security Council has stated.

Kamaludin Djakhbarov, a resident of Dagestan, disappeared on May 25; while the whereabouts of his brother Shamil Djakhbarov is unknown for more than a month, brothers' relatives told rights defenders. They fear that the brothers could be kidnapped by power agents.

At the today's session of the court, which is considering the murder of the Armenian family by a Russian serviceman Valery Permyakov, the advocate of successors of the Avetisyan family has petitioned for lodging a civil lawsuit against the Russian Federation, which should bear, according to the claimants, responsibility for the mistakes of the command of the military base, which had led to the tragedy.

The attackers in Chechnya of Igor Kalyapin, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), will not be prosecuted. This is the opinion of Igor Kalyapin himself, supported by Varvara Pakhomenko, an analyst at the International Crisis Group (ICG).

Employees of the human rights organization "Legal Initiative" have reported about another beating up of Ayub Tuntuev, convicted for a terror act in Chechnya, in the colony located in the city of Vladimir.

According to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Russian authorities are obliged to pay 70,000 euros to the family of the citizen of Georgia Manana Djabeliya, who died in a Moscow detention centre for foreign nationals in 2006, the advocate of the Djabeliya family has announced today.

The Chechen Supreme Court (SC) has pronounced interlocutory orders with regard to Marina Dubrovina and Doku Itslaev, advocates of Stanislav Klykh and Nikolai Karpyuk.

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has revoked the investigators' resolution on refusal to open a criminal case of the attack in Chechnya on Igor Kalyapin, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC). The prosecutors have sent the materials for re-verification.

In the course of the special operation in Nazran and Malgobek, law enforcers killed suspected militant Khizyr Galaev and Usman and Zurab Tsoloev, reports a source from the law enforcement bodies. The names of two other killed men have not yet been reported.

On May 26, residents of dilapidated houses held a meeting in front of a burnt-down 12-apartment house in Perelyotnaya Street. The authorities were to resettle the residents until 2011, but they failed to do it, claim the participants of the meeting.

The referendum on the South Ossetia's inclusion into Russia should be preceded by serious preparatory work among the population. This opinion was expressed by South-Ossetian politicians. They believe that the referendum could act as an annoying factor in the community in case if it is organized on the eve of the presidential election.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has appealed to the Interpol with a request to put on the wanted list an Abkhazian border guard, suspected of killing Giga Otkhozoriya, a citizen of Abkhazia.

The International Circassian Association (ICA) has lost its popularity and authority in the Circassian world. Russia needs to establish constructive relations with the structure alternative to the ICA, believe the Circassian activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The referendum will be held after the presidential election in South Ossetia, says the joint statement, signed today by President Leonid Tibilov and Parliament Speaker Anatoly Bibilov.

Today, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime has been introduced in the city of Nazran and in the Nazran District of Ingushetia. According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), five militants have been killed in the course of the CTO.

By the decision of the Chechen Supreme Court (SC) Nikolai Karpyuk has been sentenced to 22 years and 6 months of imprisonment, and Stanislav Klykh – to 20 years.

Investigators have charged three former top managers of the colony located in the town of Belorechensk, Krasnodar Territory (also called Kuban by the name of the main river), with abuse of power within the case of beating inmates, one of whom died. Earlier, seven employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) were arrested.

This morning, in the village of Kasumkent of the Suleiman-Stalsky District, policemen tried to stop a suspicious man to check his documents. The man opened fire on them and was killed by return fire.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has organized an action of urgent assistance to Valentina Cherevatenko, the leader of the Union "Women of the Don", who faces criminal prosecution for failure to supply documents for inclusion of her NGO in the register of foreign agents.