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A foundation stone has been laid of the first congregation mosque in the city of Magas, where 8000 believers will be able to pray at the same time - it will be the largest mosque in Ingushetia.

In the Astrakhan Region tourists will be able to visit a large-scale reconstruction of the medieval town of Sarai-Batu - the capital of Golden Horde, built in the steppes of the Kharabalin District, near the site of the actual archaeological excavations of the ancient settlement.

The South-Ossetian leadership has banned the import of vegetables from the European Union (EU) countries to the territory of the republic. The decision has to do with the hazardous intestinal infection spread in Europe.

Satellites found a natural source of oil in the Black Sea off the coast of Georgia, the "ScanEx" Company reports.

On May 30, armed men broke into the office of the Human Rights Centre of the Chechen Republic in Grozny and started threatening the employees of this organization. This was reported by the HRC "Memorial", which added that the attackers were not identified, and the reasons of the attack are unknown.

Today in the evening a grenade blew up in Tskhinvali and wounded, according to various sources, two or three persons, one of them later died.

Today, under the ruling of the Rostov Regional Court, the printing facility of the "Krestianin" (Peasant) newspaper, located in the village of Chaltyr, Myasnikov District of the Rostov Region, was reopened for operation. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Irina Samokhhina, the head of the "Krestianin" Publishers.

On June 3, Tigran Postanjyan, brother of Zaruhi Postanjyan, deputy of the parliamentary faction of the "Heritage" Party, was released from custody under decision by the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan.

Mass arrests of Muslims in North Ossetia and beating of believers in Dagestan are provocations on the eve of the 2012 presidential election in Russia and the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. This was stated in the statements of the Working Group of the Public Chamber (WGPC) for promoting social dialogue and civil society institutions in the Caucasus.

On June 2, the Baku Court of Appeal dismissed the complaints against extension of custody term lodged by Arif Gadjily, head of the executive office of the "Musavat" Party, Tural Abbasly, chairman of the "Musavat" youth organization, and Muhammad Medzhidli, member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).

A human life in Dagestan is cheaper than in the rest of Russia; and the Dagestani society is on the brink of civil war - these are the conclusions reached at the travelling session of the Presidential Council on Civil Society Development and Human Rights, held on June 2. It was announced at the session that in general for the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District) over 2000 human disappearances remain unsolved.

The investigation into the death of journalist Yuri Schekochikhin, who shortly before his death, namely in 2002-2003, was a member of the public commission of inquiry into the explosions of houses in Moscow and Volgodonsk in 1999, was resumed five times, and then stopped. This was stated by Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta". According to his story, the newspaper continues its independent inquiry into the death of Schekochikhin.

A non-governmental Constitutional Committee of Georgia consisting of ex-judges, experts and practicing lawyers considers it necessary to from an independent investigative committee that will undertake investigation of the events connected with dispersal of the unauthorized oppositional meeting at night of May, 26, by members of the top brass.

Free English language schools for volunteers are now working at schools of Sochi health resort, Krasnodar region.

Employees of the Inspection of Federal Tax Service of Russia in Krasnodar are suspected of having received a bribe to a sum of 250 thousand rubles.

The Department of Constitutional Security of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia prevented an act of terror two residents of Abkhazia were going to commit upon the instructions of Russian special services, the Georgian Ministry of Interior Affairs reports.

The situation in the penal enforcement institutions of Armenia is becoming worse and the lack of space remains the major problem, human rights activist Arthur Sakunts, Head of Vanadzor office of Helsinki Civil Assembly, declares.

During his meeting with Susanna Dudieva, Chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, and Elvira Tuaeva, a member of the Committee, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promised to study all the materials of the case on the Beslan terror act and try to give a new impetus to investigatory procedures.

The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) sees widespread human rights violations; most often, they are committed by power agents. This is stated in the report on the outcomes of monitoring of the human rights situation and the state with media, which was conducted during the period from September 2010 to May 2011 in the NAR, located in Azerbaijan, by regional correspondents of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS).

On June 1, the Nasimi District Court of Baku, chaired by Judge Elchin Akhmedov, finished the judicial inquiry into the case of Neimat Panakhly, Chairman of the Party of National Statehood of Azerbaijan (PNSA), accused of hooliganism and causing bodily harm. The prosecutor asked to sentence the defendant to 7.5 years in prison.