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Last night two members of the so-called "Khasavyurt" grouping were shot dead during a special operation, said a Dagestani law enforcement source. According to his version, the members of the illegal armed formation (IAF) were killed in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan.

The capital of Georgia has launched a full inventory of citizens' property damaged by the recent severe flooding. All the victims will be awarded the status of ecological migrants.

The advocate of Ramzan Belyalov, who is kept in the Pyatigorsk SIZO (pre-trial prison) named "Bely Lebed" (White Swan), has filed complaints to the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Chief Investigating Department (ChID) of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) because of the unwillingness of investigators to interrogate the witnesses, who can confirm the alibi of his client in relation to the militants' attack on the city of Budyonnovsk.

During the week from June 15 to June 21, 2015, at least three persons suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; two of them were killed and one was seriously wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Today in Khosta, local residents have blocked the construction of a high-rise building, which was launched by a private developer in the protected area. According to locals, the construction site has no passport and no markings. The action was attended by about 15 persons.

A lawsuit on defence of his honour and dignity and compensation of moral harm was lodged to the Leninsky District Court of Stavropol by the Kislovodsk Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov, who demands to attract as respondents the STRC (State TV and Radio Company) "Stavropolye" and Mark Tolchinskiy, the head of the press service of the Chief Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Tbilisi has hosted a protest action under the motto "We Need No Zoo!" The organizers intend to demand from local authorities to close the zoo and open a refuge for savage animals instead.

On June 18, in the course of construction works, several dozens of cubic meters of soil slid into the pit, prepared for the construction of the residential complex "Kurortny". The collapsed soil was bearing the private house of the Vernichenko family. As of June 21, the house had entirely slipped into the pit.

Specialists from the Dagestani "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) have established that the untreated sewage discharge into the Caspian Sea have caused the appearance of a cholera vibrio of the third pathogenicity group – a causative agent of acute intestinal diseases.

Protesters against the rise of electricity tariffs have marched along central streets of Yerevan.

The members of the toponymic commission under the Sochi Mayoralty have decided not to install this year a memory plaque of Boris Nemtsov. However, they recommended the initiators of the perpetuation to raise the same issue after a year will have passed after the assassination of the politician.

There is no threat of any epidemic in Tbilisi after the flooding; however, the volunteers and civil servants involved in clearing obstructions may het vaccinated against stupor if they wish to.

The Azerbaijani rights defender Emin Guseinov, who has received temporary asylum in Switzerland, has serious health problems, his relatives assert. According to his brother Mekhman Guseinov, during Emin's stay in the Swiss Embassy, his "old diseases got aggravated."

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to recognize Armenia responsible for the human rights situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) is a political one; and all the claims in this regard should be addressed to the government of the unrecognized republic, believe the locals interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Representatives of public organizations and civil society activists, who held a roundtable in Volgograd, have decided to set up the Independent Environmental Council. They criticized the work of the regional environmental agencies in the region and accused bureaucrats of unwillingness to cooperate with NGOs.

Professor Mayrbek Vachagaev has handed over to the Archival Department of Chechnya 50,000 archival sheets on the history of the Caucasus. These earlier unknown documents are of great value, giving details about the events of 1917-1921 in the Caucasus, local scientists believe.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has dismissed the appeal complaint lodged by the defence of Ruslan Tsurov, in which the advocate asked the court to cancel the decision of the district court to put his client into custody.

A resident of Dagestan Fatima Kurbanova is back at large after their stay at the police, where she was forced to undergo the procedure of voice recording. The woman associates these law enforcers' actions with the fact that she is the widow of the militant killed in 2009.

The court in Makhachkala, which is considering the complaint lodged by the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova against investigators' decision to stop the inquiry into her beating up in 2010, has requested the case materials from the investigators. The next court session is scheduled for June 26.

Fatima Kurbanova, a widow of a member of the armed underground, was detained by power agents in Makhachkala, said a local woman, whose children are taught English by Kurbanova. The police have not confirmed this information.