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Father and son Zautashvili were detained when they were grazing cattle in the village of Bershueti of the Gori District in Georgia. The municipal administration insists that the men did not cross the border.

Today, in the Nalchik residential district of Volny Aul, local residents have held a gathering. Some citizens dissatisfied with distribution of land plot went to the administration to hold negotiations with the authorities.

In their brief appeal, the defenders of Ukrainian citizens Stanislav Klykh and Nikolai Karpyuk ask to cancel the guilty verdict pronounced by the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. This was reported by Ilya Novikov, an advocate of the sentenced men, on June 10.

In Sochi, while fulfilling the court's decision, court marshals tried to evict a family with many children from an apartment in the municipal house. The eviction has been postponed due to the fact that the court has pronounced the decision with regard of two adults and two children. However, during the litigation on the allocation of an apartment, one more child was born in the family, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The Dagestani wrestler Said Osmanov, accused of desecrating the statue of Buddha and released today by the court, was detained again, said his advocate Asad Djabirov.

Khabib Munteziri, living in Germany and working for the online television Meydan TV, has accused law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan of putting pressure on his relatives. According to Munteziri, his relatives are detained and demanded to persuade him not to criticize the Azeri authorities.

Omar Musaev, who was kidnapped on June 9, was hit by a car, trying to escape from his pursuers. After that, masked men dragged him into their car and drove away.

During the first week of its work, the Charity Fund "Aviation", set up to help the victims of the terror act at the "Domodedovo" Airport, has transferred funds to 34 victims, the airport bosses have announced today.

Abkhazia intends to be independent and will not try to join Russia, the Prime Minister Arthur Mikvabiya has stated today in his comment on the plans of South-Ossetian leadership to hold a referendum on accession to the Russian Federation.

Power agents have reported about detection of weapons and ammunition in houses of six persons detained in Ingushetia. The six alleged members of an illegal armed formation (IAF) were detained during a special operation in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, said a source from the press service of the republic's FSB.

Believers of the Makhachkala mosque "Ikhlas" have announced an action to clean and improve quarters adjacent to their mosque. During Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims, believers are going to reconstruct roads, set lamp posts for lighting, and lay asphalt.

On June 9, a shepherd was detained by Russian soldiers near the border with South Ossetia, on the territory controlled by the Georgian side. This was reported by an official of the Adzvi village administration of the Gori District.

In Chechnya, rescue and emergency services are working in emergency mode. They are engaged in elimination of the effects of prolonged heavy rains that partially paralyzed traffic in the republic.

Last night, Azerbaijani forces shelled positions of Nagorno-Karabakh from small arms. This has been reported today by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Investigators treat commercial activities of the deputy chairman of the Sunzha District Council as a key version of the motive for undermining of his car. This was reported by Akhmed Dzeitov, Secretary of the Security Council of Ingushetia.

During his visit to Germany, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev has cancelled the meetings to be carried out at the Bundestag because of the resolution adopted by the German Parliament on recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

Members of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) have completed their visit to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) with the inspection of public agencies, IVS, and SIZO (pre-trial prison) in the Stavropol Territory. The human rights defenders insist that the IVS (temporary detention facility) in Kislovodsk should be closed immediately after the opening of a new temporary detention facility in Yessentuki.

Tonight, a bomb was triggered under the car of Kharon Checheev, a deputy chairman of the Sunzha District Council. Nobody was hurt as a result of the incident, said a republic's law enforcement source.

The off-the-schedule check of the Astrakhan Regional Public Organization "Committee of Soldiers' Mothers", launched on May 31 by the regional departments of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), "Roskomnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Supervising Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media) and Fire Inspectorate, is still ongoing.

For the time of the holy month of Ramadan, the authorities of the cities of Nazran and Magas have installed tents, in which the believers, who observe the fasting, may de-fast in the evening.