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Ismatullah Rakhmetov, the head of the division for architecture and city planning of Dagestanskie Ogni, suspected of taking a bribe, has been put into custody, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reported on Friday.

The case against five natives of Ingushetia accused of involvement in the act of terror in the market of Vladikavkaz in September of 2010 will be considered by Military circuit court in Rostov-on-Don. Preliminary hearings may be held already in a month, attorney of one of the defendants informed.

On June 20, Yerevan hosted, at the initiative of the UN Agency for Refugees, a march and an exhibition-sale of works made by Armenian refugees. The events were dated the World Refugee Day marked on that day. The exhibition showed works of Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan, Iraq and Syria.

Video records of tortures to detainees in the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia found on June, 17, in hiding places of Samegrelo (Western Georgia) were shown on June, 20, at a press-show for journalists and representatives of NGOs. The experts disagreed on whether such scenes should be shown to the public at large.

Ibragim Todashev, a native of Chechnya, who was shot dead in the United States, was buried on June 20 in the evening into the cemetery located in the Grozny District of the Chechen Republic between the settlements of Prigorodnoe and Gikalo.

Members of a pressure group in Sochi declared their intention to hold a picket in protection of the “greenbelt” of the top level of Primorskaya embankment where construction of a well-room for delivery of mineral water started. However, Mayor’s office refused to authorize the action. One of the activists is going to hold a single-person picket.

On June 20, at the trial on the case of the attack on Nalchik, the session was not held due to the illness of one of the lawyers. The session was postponed to June 24. At the previous session on June 18, the defence continued presenting its proofs.

The court ruling to fine Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the Committee "Civil Assistance", is beyond the legal sphere, said Oleg Orlov, a member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The consideration by the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow of the claim, lodged by the HRC "Memorial" and challenging the demand of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office (MPO) that the HRC should get registered as a foreign agent was rescheduled for June 25 because of the judge's illness.

Today, the Sumgait City Court has begun the hearing on the merits of the criminal case of Dashgyn Melikov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). The judge has satisfied the motion of the defence to summon additional witnesses from among policemen.

The residents of Tskhinvali, who need improvement of their housing conditions, have arbitrarily moved into the flats of a new two-storey house. Under the instruction of the authorities of South Ossetia, law enforcement bodies are investigating the incident.

Russian authorities are obliged to pay compensation of 60,000 euros Raissa Turlueva, a resident of Chechnya whose son was kidnapped by Chechen power agents. This is stated in the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the case "Turlueva versus Russia". This is the third decision of the ECtHR concerning the events in the "Kadyrov" Chechnya.

At the session of the North-Caucasian Military District Court in Rostov-on-Don, Ali Taziev, one of the leaders of "Imarat Kavkaz", accused of an attempt on the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov and organizing terror acts, has refused to plead guilty.

Two citizens of the Russian Federation Mikail Kadiev and Rizvan Omarov, detained on suspicion of preparing a terror act in the territory of Georgia, were not involved in the alleged crimes, said their relative who is in Tbilisi. The fact that the detainees refused to plead guilty was confirmed by their advocate Irma Inasaridze, who has filed an appeal against the decision of the court to arrest her clients.

An eighty-year-old resident of Ingushetia Isa Esmurziev, first category disabled person, states that the authorities refuse to provide him with dwelling ignoring the decision of the court.

At 11:00 Moscow time, June, 28, the case of alteration of territorial jurisdiction of the case of journalist and publisher Alexander Tolmachev accused of extortion will be considered in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the journalist’s supporters informed.

Sovietsky district court of Makhachkala dismissed a motion of lawyer Konstantin Mudunov who demanded to acknowledge the investigator’s inaction on the case of kidnapping policeman Alihan Nurukhalaev unlawful. However, the lawyer said that he was satisfied with the results of his claim to court and was not going to appeal against the judgment.

23 residents of Buinaksk, Dagestan, whose relatives are suspected of participation in paramilitary groups or aid to armed underground were delivered to the municipal police department for drawing DNA samples.

In Moscow, unidentified persons tried to abduct Madina Magomadova, the chair of the Republic's Public Organization (RPO) "Mothers of Chechnya"; she herself told about it. As a result of the attack she was hospitalized with a brain concussion.

The magistrate court of Buynaksk has fined Zarema Bagautdinova, an employee of the Dagestan Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) by 300 roubles for breaking the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.