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At night on June 1, in the Tsuntin District of Dagestan, unidentified persons attacked two schools, in which power agents had been temporarily stationed. One person was killed.

In the evening of May, 1, ex-Chief of Untsukul District Department of Interior Affairs Magomed Abdulmalikov was killed near his house in Buinaksk, Dagestan.

Lermontov city court of Stavropol region acknowledged Canteen “Déjà Vu" limited company where employees of “Tander” close corporation were infected with salmonellosis guilty of violation of sanitary and epidemiological standards.

The term of office of Head of the region must not be limited to two terms as stipulated by model bill in draft, Head of the Parliament of Chechnya Dukuvakha Abdurahmanov declared.

On May, 31, a traditional meeting of supporters of “Strategy-31” was held in Bratsky garden of Astrakhan. About 30 people all in all took part in it, the police did not impede holding the action.

An “anti-nickel” rally Uriupinsk – Novokhopersk passed off in Volgograd and Voronezh regions and ended with a meeting in the city which continued a series of protest actions against development of a nickel deposit in Voronezh region neighbouring to Volgograd one.

In Astrakhan, pre-investigatory check is carried out on suspicion of substitution of the test results and filling out forms on behalf of pupils during the Unified State Exam (USE) in biology. Two officials are suspected of misconduct, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

The Magistrate Court of the Proletarsky District of Rostov-on-Don fined Valery Levin, the Deputy of the City Duma, for 70,000 roubles for presenting to the election commission prior the elections a fake certificate on higher education.

Today, the Narimanov District Court in the Astrakhan Region granted the motion of investigators to arrest a police officer, detained on charges of fatal car-bicycle road traffic accident.

In the village of Machara of the Gulripsh District of Abkhazia, 37 returnees obtained apartments in a five-storey building. Most of them returned from Turkey. The others are the Abkhazians, who returned from Syria and Adzharia, and the Abazins, who came back from Karachay-Cherkessia.

The Tbilisi City Court found 8 members of the NGO "Civil Front" guilty of disobeying the police; 5 of them were sentenced to arrest, and three of them to fines.

Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, chaired by Judge Ramella Allakhverdieva, continued court hearings on the criminal case against Avaz Zeinalov, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper "Khural". The Judge dismissed all defence motions, including motions on audio recording of the court session and on release of Avaz Zeinalov from custody.

As a result of checking the reports, including ones of the "Caucasian Knot", about kidnappings of Dagestani residents in the period of January 1-May 18, which involved armed men in camouflage and masks, whereabouts of 6 persons were revealed. Fate of 14 persons remains unknown. This was reported by the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office.

A judgment within the framework of the trial on acknowledgment of the results of the election of Mayor of the city invalid may be passed already on June, 5, ex-candidate for Mayor's office Oleg Shein considers.

Suleiman Gadjiev, imam of the local mosque in the settlement of Guni, Kazbek district, who broke a portrait on the headstone of a police officer killed by gunmen was detained, law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

Basmanny court of Moscow released from custody Dmitry Pavliuchenkov involved in the murder of observer on "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya. The defendant will now be under house arrest.

A deputy in Krasnodar region was detained for suspicion of getting a bribe of two million rubles from a local businessman, Chief Directorate of Economic Security and Struggle against Corruption (CDES and SC) of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the Russian Federation reported.

This morning, Aslan Afaunov, born in 1978, was kidnapped by unidentified men in masks from his house in the village of Lechinkai of the Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria. This was reported by his wife.

"Gazenergostroi" Company Group, the developer of the construction of the Kudepsta Thermal Power Plant (TPP), claims damaging of construction vehicles, committed by local residents, who try to stop the construction works. The Sochi residents called the accusations a provocation and organized day-and-night watch at the construction site.

On May 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin reassigned his advisers, including Mikhail Fedotov, who would continue to lead the Presidential Council for Human Rights. Three of its members, including Svetlana Gannushkina, Chair of the "Civil Assistance" Committee, think about leaving the Council. According to Svetlana Gannushkina, she is not satisfied with the outcome of the Council's meeting held on April 28, 2012, since it failed to give any instructions on Northern Caucasus.