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Sergei Mironov, speaker of the Federation Council, had arrived today to Kabardino-Balkaria where he met with the republic's leadership, state functionaries and public representatives. During the meeting they discussed problems of the North Caucasus economy, in particular, those of distant pastures.

On June 27, at 5 p.m., Sochi residents held an action of protest on the Tsvetnoi Boulevard against the third leg of the Kurortny Avenue alternate road which, in their opinion, had been designed with gross violations of SNiP by architects from St-Petersburg.

A criminal case has been initiated against Sergei Molchanski, vice-governor of Archangelsk oblast. The functionary is suspected of abuse of power in spending the money allocated for repairing a school in South Ossetia.

Today, the North Ossetia supreme court has sentenced Ruslan Surkhoyev, resident of Ingushetia, to 11 years of high-security prison for kidnapping militiamen and teenagers.

Dmitri Novikov, former judge of Khosta district court, Krasnodar Krai, is accused of organizing embezzling of 17 plots of "Olympic" land in Sochi. According to his lawyer, Novikov himself accused other judges of the crime.

As reported by Magomed Ismailov, deputy minister of internal affairs of the republic, as a result of a special operation conducted in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, one of militants' leaders was liquidated.

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is the second president-blogger from the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District). Since June 25, he opened his blog in the Livejournal.

Nerses Eritsyan, Minister of Economy of Armenia, has named private money transfers received by Armenia from abroad, a challenge for the national economy. In his opinion, they are affecting the economic activity of the population.

The Karachai District Court has passed a non-guilty verdict to Marat Marshankulov, former head of Dombai settlement, Karachai-Circassia, accused of murdering Boris Bairamkulov, Director General director of the travel company "Bars" (Panther), as reported by Alibek Botashev, press secretary of the Supreme Court of the republic.

In the evening on June 25, in Lenin-Aul village of Dagestan, as a result of shelling of a service car, a militia major was killed. This was reported by the Kazbek ROVD (District Interior Division) of the republic.

On June 25, the union of public organizations for repatriation and development named "Erkir" made a statement calling the authorities of Armenia, international agencies and diplomatic corps accredited in Georgia to take steps towards preventing resettlement of Adzharians to the regions of Georgia, where Armenians live.

On June 25, in the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia, a powerful explosion happened in the house of Rosa Doskhoeva, a local resident. There were no victims, but the house was partially destroyed.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has decided to send the murder case of Magomedhadji Abashilov, Director of the State TV and Radio Company (GTRK) "Dagestan", to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for additional investigation and correction of the mistakes made in the course of the inquiry.

Today, the city of Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, opened the second economic forum named "Bridge Artsakh-2010", which will last till June 28.

Hailstones that struck Georgia at night on June 25 caused a serious damage to agriculture of the Kakheti District. Several villages completely lost their crops; orchards and vineyards suffered; settlements of summer cottages and household yards were damaged.

The Ministry on Diaspora Matters is organizing, together with the Union of Writers of Armenia, from June 28 to July 2 in Yerevan the 5th Forum of Writers under the motto "Armenian Literature Is Armenian Fortress". The forum is held within the festival "One Nation - One Culture" and will bring together about 100 writers from 20 countries.

A criminal case was initiated against an operative militiaman of the criminal inquiry division No. 3 of the Stavropol UVD (Interior Department) under the articles of "abuse of office" and "illegal storage, transportation and bearing of explosives". This was reported by the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office).

In the Krasnodar Territorial Court, in the course of the trial on a series of explosions in Sochi, one of the suspects - a former TV cameraman Mikhail Denisenko - told about how they had prepared their crimes.

The state prosecution in the case dealing with the 2005 attack on power structures of Kabardino-Balkaria lodged a cassation presentation to the Supreme Court of Russia challenging the change of custody for defendant Kazbek Budtuev. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by lawyer Liza Shak, who is defending Budtuev.

The Kusar District Court of Azerbaijan has reappointed the court session on the case of the resident of Dagestan Usman Garisov, accused of drug contraband and use on July 13, said Umar Garisov, the detainee's brother, a resident of Karanaiaul village of the Kayakent District of Dagestan.