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40 persons attended a picket, which was held in Maikop on 5 June, on the World Environment Day. Students, ecologists, working citizens and retired people with banners gathered near the Government House of the Republic. They chanted slogans: "We are for Russia without cruelty", "Animals have right to life and protection" and demanded to speed up the construction of kennel for homeless animals in the city.

In the Krasnodar Territory (also known as "Kuban" by the name of the main river), the priest, who participated in the protest action, which disrupted the opening ceremony of the exhibition "Icons" organized by Marat Gelman, was expelled from the court of the Ekaterinodar and Kuban Dioceses.

According to the rating of the Russian cities compiled by the Forbes magazine, five cities in southern Russia are the most convenient to do business. The first place among the 30 presented cities went to Sochi, the 10th place to Krasnodar, and the 7th place to Makhachkala. The rating caused ambiguous reaction of the Runet users.

Turkish textbooks contain a map, on which the territory of modern Georgia, in particular, Adzharia, and Armenia are parts of Turkey. At present, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) checks the information. The Turkish side calls the incident a mistake.

In Moscow, three persons were injured in a fight between natives of Northern Caucasus and football fans. Two victims are in serious condition.

Tonight unidentified persons in Stavropol region burned down the campaign office of Alexander Dunaev, ex-Head of Lermontov, nominee as deputy of the City Council of the fifth convocation, representatives of the office reported.

On June, 5, trial on cassational appeals of four activists convicted in connection with the oppositional meeting of April, 2, 2011, was held in the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan under the chairmanship of judge Farman Kerimov. Sahib Kerimov, Babek Gasanov, Elshan Gasanov and Elnur Israfilov asked the court to revoke the verdicts of guilty against them and bring verdicts of complete acquittal, however the Supreme Court dismissed the activists’ appeals.

Relatives of resident of Makhachkala Magomed Rasulov appealed to the police reporting his disappearance. Father of Esmira Ganieva reported his daughter’s disappearance in the settlement of Akhty, web-site of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Dagestan informs.

Members of the Bar of Armenia announced their plan to hold a one-day strike on June, 11, in this way expressing dissatisfaction with the activities of the judges of the Court of Cassation, lawyer Lusine Saakyan, member of the pressure group for organization of the strike, reported. As of June, 5, there were 100 lawyers ready to take part in the strike.

In Azerbaijan, in the evening of June 5, near the town of Zaqatala, an earthquake measuring 4 points on the 12-point scale occurred, no one was injured.

About 30 persons gathered in Victory Square in Vladikavkaz to attend the last rally, organized by the initiative group "Electrozink. What do we breathe?" against the activities of the factory.

Till the end of the year, the number of returnees, coming from Syria to Kabardino-Balkaria, will increase by 300 more persons, and 150 returnees have already arrived. This was reported on June 5 by Anzor Kurashinov, Chief of the Division of the State Committee on affairs of public and religious organizations in Kabardino-Balkaria, at the seminar on adaptation of returnees from Syria, held in Nalchik.

On June 4, after a break, the Karabulak Court of Ingushetia resumed court hearings on the case against Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, ex-officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), accused of torturing detainees.

Youth organizations of the "Georgian Dream" party coalition protest against felling of trees in Tbilisi. This was announced today by Tatiya Shetakuri, the representative of the coalition, at a campaign briefing.

Agreement between Joint-Stock Company (JSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" and "Dalian Vanda Group Co. Ltd", signed today in Beijing, stipulates investments of up to 3 billion US dollars in development of resorts in Northern Caucasus.

The Shamil District Court of Dagestan postponed court session on the criminal case of beating 14-year-old Makhmud Akhmedov in the building of the police station in connection with illness of Magomed Magomedov, the defendant.

Nineteen residents of Dagestan submitted a lawsuit to federal court of Sovietsky district of Makhachkala demanding to acknowledge their status of veterans of combat operations and oblige Military registration and enlistment office of Kazbek district of the republic to issue veteran’s certificates for them.

Vanadzor office of Helsinki Civil Assembly issued a statement in connection with the situation in which soldier of the Armenian Army Arman Manucharyn whose leg was amputated found himself. The reason for the human rights activists’ interference was a refusal to provide the soldier with a draft card and medical documents as well as procrastination of solving the question of providing the soldier with a prosthetic appliance.

According to Tamar Djizhavadze, the project coordinator and an employee of the Department of Tourism of Adzharia, the most active participants of the "Week of Tourism", organized in Batumi, were young people.

On June 3, residents of the village of Tsibari, the Tsuntin District of Dagestan, came out to hold a rally, demanding to punish those who at night on June 1 killed a teacher and burned down the village school. The villagers were ready to take up arms and lynch the criminals, said Gusen Magdiev, the head of the Tsuntin District.