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Today, the defence of Milrad Fatullaev, the editor-in-chief of the weekly "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time), have filed a supervisory complaint to the Supreme Court of Dagestan against the decision of the Kirov District Court of Makhachkala, which had upheld the decision of the first instance that found the journalist guilty of a failure to prevent slander in relation to the head of the republic.

The township Kudepsta (a part of the city of Sochi) sees a continued confrontation of local residents with the developer of the heat-and-power plant (HPP). At about 9:00 p.m., people decided to go home; however, they are ready to resume protests on the first call of those on duty, who stay for the night in tents, against the arrival of heavy machinery to the site.

Today, the Shamil District Court of Dagestan has held the debates on the parties at the repeated trial on the case of beating a 14-year-old boy in the police building. The sentence will be imposed on June 5.

In Grozny, women-activists of the organization named "Mothers' Alert", whose children had gone missing, have held a rally. It took place in the Journalists' Mini-Park – in front of the main entrance to the building of the Government of the Chechen Republic.

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.