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Nurmagomed Khizriev, who has surrendered today to law enforcers, did not know the owners of the flat, locked in Makhachkala; they just let him in for the night on recommendation of their friend, said Gulnara Rustamova, the chair of the Dagestani public organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

On June 1, the international Children's Day, a rally was held in the Journalists' Mini-Park of the Chechen capital, where activists of a number of public organizations called on the state officials to pay attention to the problems of disabled children and orphans.

Representatives of the Muftiate of the Chechen Republic are checking the work of imams of local mosques.

On June 1, in Nagorno-Karabakh, Vachik Melkumyan, a villager of Nerkin, Tavush Region, who worked on his land plot, was wounded by fire from the Azerbaijani party, said the press service of the Armenian police.

On June 1 and 2, the Rostov Region holds actions to commemorate the tragedy of 1962 in the city of Novocherkassk, where a mass shooting of the workers who went out for a strike took place.

On June 1, in the Georgian city of Zugdidi, policemen demanded from street vendors to abandon the territory of the Central City Marketplace, after which local entrepreneurs held a spontaneous protest action.

As stated today by the State Security Service (SSS) of Abkhazia, the murder on May 28 in the city of Gali of two officers of the local interior division – Leonid Kvitsiniya and Davy Buava – and a local resident Gultazi Kolbaya was committed by the members of a sabotage and intelligence group, sent from Georgia under the order of the Georgian special services.

On June 1, the official opening of the beach named "Ostrovok" (Small Island) was held in the Reduktorny Township, located in the southern outskirt of Makhachkala.

Zalina Khekilaeva from Nalchik has addressed her applications to the Investigatory Department for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the Prosecutor's Office of the KBR, B. M. Zumakulov, Ombudsman in the KBR, and to the Human Rights Centre of the KBR, describing the circumstances of disappearance of her husband Albert Karmov, whose body was found in the "Gardens of Nalchik".

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.