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Mekhman Guseinov, the correspondent of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), was detained in Azerbaijan. He is suspected of having committed acts of hooliganism.

Disappearance of Murad Ilyasov, a 47-year-old resident of the village of Verkhnie Ubeki of the Levashi District, which occurred on June 11, and the fact that till that time his whereabouts are unknown was reported by Mustafa Ilyasov, the son of the disappeared man.

No less than 25 persons became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus during the period from June, 4, till June, 10, 2012. 13 out of them perished and 12 got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In North Ossetia, a gathering of young residents of the city of Ardon occurred. The gathering adopted an appeal to local residents, NGOs and businessmen, which urged them to desist from the use of energy drinks and stop selling them. More than 50 persons took part in the discussion of the problem.

Till present, the military engineer units cleared the Russian Defence Ministry in Chechnya, about 300 hectares of farmland, according to the military commandant's office of the republic.

The Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) of the Russian Federation in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District does not confirm the information that Shamil Gaziev, a resident of Makhachkala, who was sentenced for 24 years of imprisonment for committing a terror act, is persecuted on religious and ethnic grounds.

On June 11, in Yerevan, 545 out of 1152 registered lawyers announced a day of one-day strike to protest against the activities of the Court of Cassation. This was reported today by officials of special group of the Bar Association of Armenia.

This morning, in Armenia, Mher Yenokyan, who was sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of murder, went on a hunger strike, demanding a retrial.

Anar Bairamly, a correspondent of the Iranian "Sugar" TV Channel in Azerbaijan, has been imprisoned for his materials criticizing the authorities. This was stated by Emin Guseinov, Director of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS).

On June 9, activists of the human rights organization "Mothers of Chechnya for Peace" appealed to the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Chechnya, asking to reopen investigation into the case on disappearance in 2000 of 11 residents of the village of Ulus-Kert of the Shatoi District of the republic due to on newly discovered facts.

The first five-day environmental action "Clean forest, clean spring" within the framework of which volunteers of Adygea will clean objects of "Bolshoi Tkhach" natural park from debris will start today, June, 11. Cleaning is generally planned in the territory of Taiwan hole, Koryto mountain and Shestakov glade.

A charge of illegal storage of arms and ammunition was brought against Ilham Amirsalanov, detained resident of the settlement Askerbeili, Sabirabad district of Azerbaijan, who during the latest two years was defending the rights of sufferers from a flood of May and June, 2010, in the Kura and Araz rivers. Amirsalanov was arrested by Sabirabad district court for the term of 2 months.

On June, 10, organizers of a picket in memory of student Igor Verbenko who perished in a road accident with the participation of Deputy of the city Duma Ostrovenko in Rostov-on-Don collected about 400 signatures.

Nazir Guliev and Ilez Nalgiev, employees of the MIA of Ingushetia, accused of torturing their detainees, demand a repeated commission examination of the handwriting of the three witnesses who refused from their signatures to the evidences given during the investigation, said Magomed Magomadov, their advocate.

As reported by Vladimir Markin, the official spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), three alleged attackers on the policemen, who came to fulfil an order of the investigator, who is investigating the fight in Moscow between the fans of the "Spartak" FC and natives of Northern Caucasus, were detained.

On June 9, the Contest Commission for the election of Elista Mayor (City Manager) considered applications of six candidates and ruled that all of them are eligible, the press service of the Mayoralty of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, reports.

The Russian government must suspend the demolition of the house of the Khlystov family in Sochi, which is planned in order to clear the space for Olympic construction, until the family is provided compensatory housing in another district, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated.

The murder of Magomed Cherkesov, 68, the father of Aslan Cherkesov, who had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for murdering the football fan Yegor Sviridov, was committed on selfish motives, and in no way related to the case of his son, said a source from investigatory authorities.

On June 8, the Dagestani Economic Forum was attended by about 1500 participants, including those from abroad, who signed 33 agreements. The main topic of the event is the development of an efficient economy of the region, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

At the 20th round of Geneva debates on security in the Caucasus, the South-Ossetian delegation raised the issue of revitalization of searches for the citizens of their republic, who went missing in 1989-1992 and 2008. Members of the delegation said that reports are available on existence in Georgian of mass burials of assassinated Ossetians.