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Relatives of Salafi Omar Musaev, kidnapped in Khasavyurt, hold a rally in front of the local ROVD (District Interior Division). Law enforcers have assured the protesters that Omar Musaev is not being kept at their place; however, they refused to let them into the building.

Suspects are reported in the case of injury of the director of the House of Culture in the village of Karabudakhkent. They are two bodyguards of the head of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, reports a source of the "Chernovik" (Draft). According to the source, both suspects are detained.

The Kaspiysk City Court has demanded from Nurakhmed Mirzaev, a local resident, who filed a complaint about the inaction of the police, to provide the data. The paradox is in the fact that Nurakhmed Mirzaev went to the court to complain about non-receipt of those data, reports the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

On the first day of enforcing the Amnesty Act, 350 persons will be released, said Alimamed Nuriev, a member of the Public Oversight Committee (POC) and the head of the Research Fund "Constitution". However, according to rights defenders, the amnesty has not covered political prisoners.

The Krasnodar Territory (also named Kuban by the name of the main river) has been mentioned among seven regions with high index of socio-economic and political tensions, which were indicated in the report prepared by experts of the Committee of Civil Initiatives.

Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, a defendant in the case of the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a suspected accomplice of the killer, has refused to sign the protocol of familiarization with the materials of the criminal case.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Vano Merabishvili's complaint will be appealed against, said Thea Tsulukiani, the Minister of Justice of Georgia, noting that in this case the above decision may come into force only in 2017.

The court has ruled to bring two of the attackers on Alexei Navalny, the head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), and his staff to administrative responsibility for disorderly conduct (petty hooliganism). The cases of ten Cossacks and one ACF employee have been sent to the Magistrate Court.

In Dagestan, an explosion near a police car in the village of Novy Khushet does not indicate the militants' transition from armed clashes to techniques of sabotage, and it is not possible to draw a conclusion about weakening of the "Islamic State" (IS) (banned in Russia) in Northern Caucasus. This opinion was voiced by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Alexander Valov, the editor-in-chief of the "BlogSochi", was unlawfully arrested for five days for organizing a mass event in the Olympic village in Sochi, since his actions did not violate the law. This was stated by the defenders, who filed an appeal against the court decision.

Law enforcers have detained a resident of Baksan, who, according to their version, is involved in the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned Russia. A bomb was found in the course of the search in the suspect's house, reports a source from the law enforcement bodies.

The picket "For Russia without dictatorship" was held in the place specially allocated by the authorities for holding of actions. This was stated by picketers, when the police detained them and drew up administrative protocols against them.

The opposition newspaper "Azadlyg" is given two weeks to pay off its debt in the amount of 12,000 US dollars in front of the publishing house "Azerbaijan". Otherwise, the newspaper will be closed.

Ruzanna Egnukyan, an activist of the "Front of Armenian Women", who was recognized a victim in a clash with the police which occurred in Yerevan on March 24, refused to come to the investigator. According to her, she has nothing new to say to the investigators.

Last night, unidentified persons shelled a car of the director of the House of Culture of the village of Karabudakhkent. His life is not in danger, reports officials from the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The explosion of a police car in the village of Novy Khushet which occurred last night became at least the fifth attack on law enforcers committed in the vicinity of the village during five years.

The new village of 30 houses is being constructed in the mountainous Shatoi District of Chechnya, where on June 12, a landslide destroyed and damaged dozens of houses. According to the Shatoi District administration, the construction works are to be completed by July 6.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has stepped up the work on crimes that might be committed against the civilian population of South Ossetia in August 2008. In six months, representatives of The Hague Court are going to go to Tskhinvali.

The government of Nagorno-Karabakh completes the restoration works in the village of Alashan and continues the construction of a residential complex in the village of Kichan. It is planned to transfer residents of the village of Talysh there for a while.

Foreign visitors who intend to visit the events of the "Formula 1" Grand Prix in Baku should pay attention to the human rights problems in Azerbaijan. This was declared by the human rights organization "Freedom House". According to the organization, in Azerbaijan, more than 80 people were subjected to wrongful arrests.