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Andrei Babushkin, Igor Kalyapin and Maxim Shevchenko have reported about the final decision of the members of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) not to go to Chechnya within a series of outreach meetings in Northern Caucasus.

The Gudermes City Court has satisfied the lawsuit of Magomed Kantaev against the "Rosmorrechflot" (Russian Federal Agency for Marine and River Fleet) and invalidated the contest for the post of Director General of the Makhachkala Commercial Seaport (MCS), because of the fact that Kantaev had not been admitted to the contest.

A powerful explosive device was confiscated from the car of a native of Terek, who, according to power agents, had planned to organize a terror act, said a law enforcement source.

The head of Chechnya has refused to meet the delegation of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) on June 2, if Igor Kalyapin is present there. Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the delegation, has confirmed his intention to visit Chechnya today.

Repairs have started in the apartment house in Grozny damaged by fire at night on May 31. According to the Mayoralty, 10 apartments were seriously damaged; they were poured with water when fire extinguishing. One of the tenants of the house has confirmed that people had refused to go to temporary accommodation facilities and prefer to live with relatives.

On May 31, Ramazan Djalaldinov, a resident of the village of Kenkhi, Sharoi District of Chechnya, who had in April appealed to Russian President with a complaint about the situation in the village of Kenkhi, returned back home with the family.

In the mountainous Vedeno District of Chechnya, federal servicemen opened automatic fire at a group of local residents, mistakenly taking them for militants. One person was seriously wounded, said a source from the district administration.

30 shareholders are preparing a petition to the Mayoralty with a demand to preserve their right to reside in the house in Fadeev Street in Sochi, declared illegally erected. Many buyers of apartments in the new buildings have now nowhere to live, said a participant in the meeting of shareholders.

The investigating authorities have changed the pre-trial restriction measure to Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of the "Armenian National Congress" (ANC).

In Dagestan, the delegation of the Council under the Russian President for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (full official title of the HRC) found no serious violations in the SIZO (pre-trial prison), but revealed the practice of putting people on the so-called "prophylactic register" for their religious beliefs.

Starting from June 15, the "Electrozink" Factory will launch works on stopping harmful production. And in this September, the production of lead in Vladikavkaz will be completely stopped. This was reported by the plant's managers to officials of North Ossetia.

Today, in Volgograd, four persons have held a picket in support of Article 31 of the Russian Constitution and against the introduction of new rules of picketing in the region.

Elena Nadtoka, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chastnaya Lavochka" (Private Shop), has succeeded to achieve the recognition of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that the Russian authorities violated her right to freedom of expression.

The OSCE Minsk Group is to organize the regular monitoring of how the Karabakh conflict is being highlighted in the media of the parties to the conflict. This was stated by Gegam Bagdasaryan, the head of the Stepanakert Press Club.

Ramazan Djalaldinov, who raised the problem of corruption in the Chechen village of Kenkhi, was forced to apologize to Ramzan Kadyrov. This opinion was voiced by rights defender Oleg Orlov and Mikhail Roschin, the researcher of the Caucasus.

The authors of the petition for cancellation of the decision to rename a bridge in Saint Petersburg after Akhmat Kadyrov, the first Chechen President, are going to send it to deputies of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly, the Governor, and the City Toponymy Commission.

Businessmen Suleiman Kerimov and Ziyavudin Magomedov try to appoint their candidates the head of the Makhachkala Commercial Seaport. This opinion was voiced by Dagestani journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

According to the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA), its specialists found a part of a "Grad" missile engine, two artillery missiles of 122 mm calibre, and two missiles of 152 mm calibre.

On May 30, in the criminal case against Sergey Fetisov, accused of a large-scale fraud with land plots of the Adler Cossack Association, the court of Sochi did not start questioning defence witnesses and postponed the court hearing until June 6.

The Taganrog City Court has sentenced Elizaveta Tsvetkova, a local woman, accused of inciting hatred and hostility towards policemen, to one year of corrective labour with the recovery of legal costs.