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Relatives of Shamil Abdulaev, a resident of Makhachkala, report that he was kidnapped on June 6 by armed men in masks. Along with him, and Abdulaev's friend and an occasional passerby were also kidnapped, said one of his relatives.

On Monday, the Binagadi District Court in Baku sentenced the well-known Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismailova to the alternative administrative penalty of 220 hours of public works, instead of the earlier appointed fine of 400 manats (about 510 US dollars).

The strike of Armenian lawyers launched on Monday is now 201 persons strong. The strike will continue till June 11. The Armenian lawyers had planned in advance their two-day strike on June 10 and 11 in protest against the work methods of the Court of Cassation (CoC), in which they see arbitrariness.

In the city of Kotovo, Volgograd Region, the authorities fail to enforce the law "On Education", in particular, there are no free school textbooks; and parents have to buy them for their own money. This is stated in the letter, addressed by a local resident Valery Solomennov to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On 9 June, in the city of Lenkoran, 200 km to the south of Baku, a group of leaders of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) was attacked. The car, in which they arrived in the city for a meeting of the local branch of the PPFA was damaged, the activists also suffered and the meeting was disrupted.

The Georgian has reported creation of a commission to monitor the destruction of the archive with secret recordings of citizens' private life. However, in the opinion of the Deputy Minister of Justice David Djandieri and NGO activists, in order to protect citizens from the uncontrolled collection of personal data is necessary to make a number of amendments to the national legislation.

On June 10, in a private house No. 13 in Vinsovkhoznaya Street in Khasavyurt, a gas explosion occurred, after which four people were hospitalized, including a child. The victims of the explosion of household gas in Khasavyurt are in critical condition, said a source from the Khasavyurt Central Hospital.

The court of the city of Magas has ruled to put Iles Tatiev behind bars until August 6 inclusive. Iles Tatiev was detained on June 7 on suspicion of embezzling 20 million roubles from the "Rosselkhozbank".

In Sochi, Galina Maryanova, the owner of the auto camping LLC "Astra", has gone on a hunger strike, demanding to restore the water supply to her facility. According to her story, the owners of the nearby camping deprived her of water supply by just "cutting off the pipe."

On June 9, from the midday to 8:00 p.m., the Komsomol Mini-Park of Sochi hosted an action in defence of the nature, which was attended by about 500 people. The organizers believe that it was a success.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has reported that on June 9, in the Karakojsu River, in the Gergebil District of Dagestan, the body of a 43-year-old woman-resident of the village of Khadzhalmakhi, Levashin District, was found with a gunshot wound in her head.

As reported by a source from the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Moscow, a special operation held by law enforcers in the Muslim house of worship, located in Ugreshskaya Street in Moscow, resulted in detention of more than 300 believers.

Parents of the persons who perished on October 13, 2005, inNalchik are disappointed with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the case of refusal of Russian authorities to give out bodies of suspected militants for burial.

As stated by the spokesman of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the families of the Georgian soldiers, who were killed by a suicide attack in Afghanistan, will receive assistance from the state. Experts offer to take further steps to ensure the safety of Georgian troops both within peacekeeping force and in the country itself.

The National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan includes the members of a number of parties and public associations of the country, human rights defenders and opposition leaders who plan to nominate a united candidate in the upcoming presidential election.

Derbent policemen did not allow holding a rally against renaming Sovietskaya Street into Geidar Aliev Street, the organizers report. The rally was to be held in the park in Sovietskaya Street. Since morning, Derbent policemen have cordoned off the venue and blocked all the entrances, the organizers have reported.

Marik Dudaev, a resident of South Ossetia, convicted in Georgia in 2005, was released on June 7, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Lira Tskhovrebov, the chair of the Association of Women of South Ossetia for Freedom and Human Rights.

In Chechnya, the Prosecutor's Office is seeking to recognize the website named "Ministry of Truth of the Russian Federation" as extremist, in connection with the publication of the audio and video materials put by the Russian Ministry of Justice into the list of extremist materials.

On June 7, the Sumgait City Court held a preliminary hearing on the case of Dashgyn Melikov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), chaired by Judge Agil Abbasov. The defence moved a number of motions. However, since the prosecutor was not ready to express his attitude to the motions, the trial was postponed till June 11.

The Armenian government has decided to pay lump-sum compensations to socially vulnerable residents of 23 villages of the Armavir Region, who were most affected by hail. The total amount of lump-sum payments makes 80 million drams, or about 193,000 US dollars.