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According to residents of the Sochi village of Dagomys, who have been affected by a new flooding, the officials continue to ignore their demands to clean and arrange water drains. The local residents believe that the authorities fail to understand that it is much more beneficial for them to allocate funds to repair and clean water drains than to regular pay compensation and to eliminate the consequences of cases of flooding.

The two-day rock music festival "Tbilisi JAM Fest 2016" was disrupted shortly after its start. Priests of the monastery located nearby came to the venue of the festival and demanded to stop the concert.

Legal norms were violated during the detention of the US crew of the "HBO" TV Channel and Alexander Valov and Dmitry Saltykovsky, two Russian citizens, in the village of Vesyoloe-Psou in Sochi. This opinion was voiced by Sochi advocates interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the district centre of Alexandrovskoye, Terek Cossacks held a rally, at which they demanded to give them back their right to all-people's election of the head of the village. The protestors demanded to amend the charter of the village and to dismiss the Governor.

In Sochi, five FSB agents came to the house of Mardiros Demerchyan when the crew of the US "HBO" TV Channel tried to interview him. The FSB agents warned them that the crew was in the border zone and did not have permission for shooting. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Mardiros Demerchyan.

Today, former policemen from the Terek District, who worked at the border with counterterrorist operation (CTO) area during the two Chechen campaigns, have met members of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation.

The Parliament of Georgia has adopted the amendments to the Law "On Constitutional Court", taking into account the proposals of the Georgian President, who vetoed the previous version of the draft law.

The Armenian Parliament Standing Commission on Foreign Relations has approved the Armenian-Russian agreement on creation of the Unified Regional Air Defence System in the Caucasus. The issue of the ratification of the agreement will be now discussed at the session of the National Assembly.

On June 3, the festival "Books of Russia" was opened at the Red Square in Moscow. The publishing house of Maria and Viktor Kotlyarov from Kabardino-Balkaria presents its products at the festival. The presentation of the books from the series "The Caucasus" of the above publishing house is scheduled for June 6.

On June 3, in Saint Petersburg, people held an action to protest against the renaming one of the bridges of the northern capital after Akhmat Kadyrov, the first Chechen President.

In Sochi, the FSB has released detained US journalists. Russian citizens Alexander Valov and Dmitri Saltykovsky are accused of violating the procedures for organization and holding gathering in the near-border village of Vesyoloe-Psou.

Alexander Valov, the editor-in-chief of the "BlogSochi", and interpreter Dmitri Saltykovsky, who are now, after being detained with a group of American journalists in the settlement of Vesyoloe-Psou, kept in the FSB building, have stated about power agents' refusal to explain their actions, draw up a protocol and admit an advocate to them.

Residents of Ingushetia complain about low wages and violations at the implementation of housing programmes; and the republic's SIZOs (pre-trial prisons) have serious problems with custody conditions. This was stated by the members of the delegation of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) at the end of their travel to Ingushetia.

Alexander Valov, the editor-in-chief of the "BlogSochi", and a group of American television journalists have been detained by FSB agents in the settlement of Vesyoloe-Psou. They are accused of breaking the border regime.

Law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia cannot efficiently investigate the March attack on rights defenders, because of the Chechen trace in the case, said Igor Kalyapin, a rights defender, at a meeting of HRC members with Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

Residents of the houses, destroyed by heavy rains and a landslide in the villages of Nizhni Djengutai and Kadar had to move to their relatives and neighbours, said a source from the administration of the Buynaksk District of Dagestan.

Akhmad Shikhmagomedov, the owner of the Muslim "Ummah" store, who disappeared in Makhachkala, has been brought to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Kaspiysk, said his relatives and a police source. So far, there is no official confirmation of this information.

The detention term of five residents of the Volgograd Region, suspected of involvement in the "Islamic State" (IS), which is banned in Russia by court, and of preparing a terror act, has been extended today until September 5.

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has sent to the court a criminal case against a local resident, accused of illegal possession of ammunition, as well as of rendering financial help to his fellow countryman, who has been convicted for preparing to take part in the warfare in Syria for the militants.

Blood feud and conflict over the murder in 2013 of "Gorets" (Highlander) Club Director are considered among the versions of the attack on the athlete Shakhbulat Shamkhalaev, wounded on June 1 in Makhachkala.