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Andrei Krasnenkov, the representative of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, today lodged a complaint on the acquittal on charges of slandering his client by Oleg Orlov, the chairman of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", to the secretariat office of the world court No. 363 of the Khamovniki District of Moscow. Andrei Krasnenkov announced about that by himself.

The Moscow authorities have sold 24.5 percent of the "Mospromstroy" to the company of Mikail Shishkhanov, the head of Binbank, and his uncle Mikhail Gutseriev, the head and co-owner of the "Russneft". Mikhail Gutseriev's companies already control more than 75 percent of the shares of this company.

During the week of June 6-12, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 20 human lives; at least 11 more persons were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

Leader of the Labour party of Georgia Shalva Natelashvili called for the oppositional forces to sign a demand of resignation of Georgian President Michael Saakashvili.

The youth branch of the oppositional party “The New Rights” held an action of protest against increasing military presence of the Russian Federation in Abkhazia in front of the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi.

Thirteen servicemen of the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Federal Security Service of Russia were killed in a special operation in Kizlyar district of Dagestan, a source in the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia reported.

In Azerbaijan, on June 23 the Gandzha Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Chingiz Mamedov, held a preparatory session on the case of the activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev. Judge Mamedov appointed the consideration of the appeal on July 5.

Problems of the residents of Magaramkent and Akhtyn Districts of Dagestan, who live in the villages of Khrakh-Uba and Uryan-Uba, located on the territory of Azerbaijan, have been in the focus of hearings of the Working Group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on the development of social dialogue and civil society institutions.

Socially-oriented films will be presented during the International Film Festival on Human Rights "Stalker", which started this evening in Makhachkala.

Anzor Parkadze and Alexander Ninoshvili, citizens of Georgia, detained on June 23 in the Leningor District of South Ossetia, Georgia, were passed to Georgia, as an act of goodwill from the South Ossetian authorities, the KGB of the republic informed.

In Volgograd, on June 21 in the evening, at the action "Candle of Memory" unidentified persons attacked the activists of the public organization "Novye Lyudi" (New people). In the result of attack five members of the organization were beaten. The casualties fail to apply to the police. According to them, the football fans were involved in the incident.

Mudflows generated as a result of rain showers, which started on June 22 in the evening, destroyed the hydroelectric power plant (HPP), which was under construction on the Goychay River in the Ismailli District of Azerbaijan. Water washed away houses, where displaced people lived.

Law enforcement bodies and power agencies continue to search for members of Shamil Basaev's group who attacked Budyonnovsk, told Artem Melnikov, the head of the Department of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russia Federation in the North Caucasus Federal District, on June 22.

After the end of a game between “Anji” and “Krylia Sovietov” on June, 22, in Samara the hosts’ fans flung a banana into the playing field. Brazilian Roberto Carlos, team captain of Dagestani “Anji”, left the playing field as a sign of protest.

A series of actions devoted to the World Day of Refugees passed off in Yerevan on June, 19-20. Over one hundred people took part in a procession along the central streets of the capital with a slogan “Do at least something for a refugee!”

An all-Russian rally of blondes will be held in Sochi today. The only museum and memorial to blondes will be opened within its framework.

Court granted the lawsuit of three journalists of the newspaper "Novoe Vremya" (New Time) against Anatoly Antontsev, the Chairman of Mikhailov City Duma, who did not let the correspondents of this newspaper to attend the City Duma session.

On June 20 the numbering of cellular networks in Georgia has changed. A digit "5" was added to the two-digit cellular codes.

On June 21 in the night, at approximately 4:00 a.m. Moscow time, in the village of Sagopshi of the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons exploded the house, belonging to a local resident. There were no casualties and injured, because nobody lived in the house. The building suffered considerable damage.

According to the decision of the Dzaus District Court of South Ossetia, on June 22, ten citizens of Georgia, who were detained on June 18 by Russian border guards, were transferred to Georgian.