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In the context of the exercises "Kavkaz-2011", conducted by the Frontier Department the Republic of Ingushetia of the Russian FSB, today the legal regime of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) was introduced in the Djeirakh District.

Following their visit to Georgia, the members of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions offer to apply, wherever possible, measures of freedom restriction and punishment, alternative to imprisonment, based on the principle of proportionality.

According to preliminary data, the explosion of a gas cylinder that happened at a wedding party in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, struck 46 persons, five children aged from 2 to 7 among them. Doctors find the health condition of 11 of them, including 3 children as extremely grave; they are all in the intensive care units.

The Centre in Defence of Freedom of Conscience and Religion (DEVAMM) has launched a campaign named "100,000-Strong Appeal to President of Azerbaijan" and aimed to express protest against the ban on schoolgirls to wear hijabs in schools.

All the Muslims should be equal; and to combat extremism, Dagestan needs neutral Islam, Magomedrasul Karanaev, Imam of the Dagestani village of Gubden, said today in Makhachkala, at the Congress of Religious Leaders of Northern Caucasus.

On June 24, the action named "All-Russian March along Stolen Black Sea Coast" was held in the vicinity of the city of Gelendzhik. Several activists were detained afterwards.

On June 23, the refugees, who had fled Chechnya during the two military campaigns, arrived in Grozny from the city of Amman (Jordan).

On June 23, at the roundtable on the topic "Activities of foreign human rights organizations in Russia on the eve of State Duma elections", held at the Press Centre of the Youth Information Agency (YIA), leaders of youth public organizations of the Rostov Region spoke against implementation of the projects of the Soros Foundation in Russia.

On June 24, the picket of the "Committee against Torture" in Grozny was interrupted by the police for the poster reading "We are against police's voluntarism!"

The today's opposition rally in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, ended with a ruckus between supporters of Eduard Kokoity, the incumbent President of South Ossetia, and oppositionists. Supporters of the republic's authorities complained that they had no chance to speak during the rally.

Irakli Okruashvili, the leader of the "Georgian Party", should be brought to Georgian justice. The deputy Guram Chakhvadze stated that in the course of today's plenary session of the Parliament of Georgia.

In the nearest future Armenia will set up three Free Economic Zones (FEZs), the reporters were told by Tigran Davtyan, the Minister of Economy. The adoption of the Law "On Free Economic Zones" contributed to the beginning of the works in this direction.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) filed two complaints from the residents of the Rostov Region, practicing the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses. The Russian citizens intend to lodge a protest to the ECtHR on the searches, which were sanctioned by the authorities in respect of them, confiscations and destruction of religious literature, bans on preaching and disruption of religious services.

Today, the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) fined the club "Krylia Sovetov" (Wings of the Soviets) (Samara) by 300,000 roubles for the incident with a banana thrown at the Brazilian player Roberto Carlos, the captain of the "Anji" FC.

The Krasnodar Territory Court held a session on the criminal case on death of six Moscow schoolchildren in the summer camp at Yeysk Spit. The session was held with the use of videoconferencing, with the help of which the complainants were interrogated.

The criminal case of born in Nalchik Aslan Cherkesov, the main suspect in the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the football club "Spartak" is to be considered at the Savyolovsky Court the next two weeks. The Cherkesov's advocate said that the defence intends to request a jury trial.

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.