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In Azerbaijan, Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), who has been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment, is being kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in the same conditions as other prisoners.

Azerbaijan has started the trial of the case against Gasan Guseinli, the head of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) named "Intellectual Citizen" Educative Centre, located in the city of Ganja (Gandzha). Gasan Guseinli is accused of hooliganism.

On Thursday afternoon, in the mountains of Dagestan, residents found the body of an infant who perished when a minibus fell into a gorge in the Tsuntin District. This was reported by Magomed Magomedov, a resident of the Tsuntin District.

The NPO coalition "Eurasian Choice-Georgia" has collected 2000 out of required 30,000 signatures under a legislative proposal to restore diplomatic relations with Russia.

Deputies of the "Extraordinary Congress of Dagestani Nations" have announced that they will have to organize protest actions if the authorities fail to listen to their demands specified in their resolution. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

At night of Thursday, in the Cossack village of Suvorovskaya of the Predgorny District of the Stavropol Territory, a grenade blew up in the yard of the house belonging to a car service director. No one was injured. This was reported by the press centre of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Brothers of Arthur Gatagazhev, who was killed in the special operation conducted on May 24 in the village of Sagopshi in Ingushetia, have been detained in Malgobek on suspicion of drug trafficking. The mother of the detainees claims that drugs were planted to their car during the search carried out by agents of the secret services.

Experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent have failed to come to a common conclusion about the causes and consequences of the revolution in Abkhazia. According to journalist Orkhan Djemal, the crisis was inspired by Russia.

The Moscow City Court has started the trial in the case against members of the banned organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir". The prisoners' dock contains Saipulla Kurbanov and Shamil Ismailov, two natives of the Republic of Dagestan, and Zakrillokhon Rakhmonkhodjaev and Azizbek Inamov, two natives of Central Asia.

On June 4, in Yerevan, about a dozen activists supporting Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, a participant of the protest action "Million Mask March", held an action in front of the presidential residence. They were expressing their gratitude to Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Confederation President, for his position on the Armenian political prisoners.

Elchin Sadygov, the advocate of the Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Parviz Gashimli, who was sentenced to eight years in prison, has appealed against the verdict. The lawyer believes that Gashimli's criminal case was fabricated.

Two of the seven persons missing after the fall of a minivan in the Tsuntin District of Dagestan have been found dead. As a result, the death toll now makes five persons, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Beslan Kubrava, the Head of the Administration of the President of Abkhazia, and Nugzar Ashuba, the Secretary of the Security Council, have submitted their resignation applications.

According to a source from the Gudermes District Administration, in total, 146 residents of the village of Ishkhoy-Yurt, including 33 children, were hospitalized with symptoms of poisoning with drinking water; their condition is assessed as moderate gravity. The source of water that has presumably caused the infection was taken under guard.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has refused to overturn the decision of the Nalchik City Court on invalidating the cancellation of the residence permit in Russia of Nart Abaza, an ethnic Adyg and a Syrian national, a student of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University (KBSU).

According to the lawyer Elchin Sadygov, a cassation complaint on the case of Sardar Alibeili, the editor-in-chief of the "P. S. Nota" newspaper and the online-edition "Psnota.com", who was sentenced on November 13, 2013, to four years in prison on charges of hooliganism with use of a weapon, has been lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of the Azerbaijani Republic.

In Azerbaijan, the journalist Rauf Mirkadirov, arrested on charges of treason, has decided to testify to investigators. Earlier, he refused doing it, treating the accusation of spying in favour of Armenia as an absurd one, said his advocate.

Because of the great amount of refugees, some districts of the Rostov Region that border on Ukraine were put under the state of emergency, said Pavel Astakhov, the Ombudsman for Children's Rights in the Russian Federation, who makes his official visit to the region.

Ruslan Khasiev, a resident of the city of Grozny, is suspected of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, said a source from the Chechen prosecutor's office. Earlier, he was convicted on same charges and for involvement in the armed underground.

The early presidential election scheduled for August 24 in Abkhazia has brought some intrigue into the issue of who will represent the contesting groups in the race. Local experts agree that Alexander Ankvab will not take part in it.