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Two contract soldiers were wounded on June 16 in the course of the special operation undertaken against fighters of the armed underground near the village of Serzhen-Yurt, Shali District of Chechnya. This was reported today by a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic.

As reported by the press service of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation for Dagestan, all the persons liquidated in the course of the special operation conducted in Stary Kostek village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, have been identified.

Oleg Deripaska's Corporation "Transstroy" has been deprived of the 2.99-billion-rouble contract on building the second phase of the cargo port in Sochi - one of the main sites of the Olympic construction programme.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found Russia guilty of disappearance and death of seven residents of Chechnya and ruled that Russian authorities should pay 470,000 euros of compensation. This is stated in the press release of the Court.

Recent frequent murders of militiamen and attacks on public catering establishments have causes worry in local residents. People believe that the militia, which is unable to ensure safety of its workers, moreover cannot take care and defend peaceful residents.

On June 15, a 30-minute protest action was held at the building of the former Chief Police Administration of Tbilisi. About 80 protesters wanted to remind about the events on June 15, 2009, when in that very place policemen dispersed a rally of the opposition by applying physical violence and arrested several participants, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

After the August conflict of 2008, the whole economy of South Ossetia had to reorient towards Russia. The Russian Federation had allocated 840 million US dollars (26 billion roubles) to the breakaway republic; however, the economy, which should have consumed the money, shows no recovery. This was the conclusion of the international NGO named "The International Crisis Group" (ICG).

Twenty-one workers of the chip-making factory in the city of Azov got food poisoning and were brought to hospital. Eight of them were left there for treatment.

On June 17, at the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan, where the trial on the case of a group of citizen of the republic, accused of terrorism and attempt to overthrow the power, some of the defendants stated their innocence.

Evgenia Khasis, a figurant in the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, did not refuse to take prison food at the "Lefortovo" SIZO (pre-trial prison), where she is now kept. This was stated by the spokesman of the press service of the Federal Corrective Service (known as "FSIN").

After Svetlana Gannushkina, chair of the Committee "Civil Assistance", interfered into the case of Ratmir Fotov, who had been detained in Kabardino-Balkaria, his advocate Larissa Dorogova, who was hired by Ratmir's relatives, managed to meet him.

Activists of ecological organizations of Armenia call to suspend construction of the hotel in the Khosrov Natural Reserve and start broad public debates on the use of this area for ecological tourism.

They were killed in two armed clashes that burst out in Dagestan today. Six of them were killed in the course of the special operation conducted in Stary Kostek village, and four more were shot dead in the city of Derbent. The general losses of the federal forces made four casualties and eight wounded servicemen.

The Investigatory Department (ID) of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia for the Irkutsk Region has indicted three natives of Ingushetia of kidnapping. Two of the detainees had earlier worked in the MIA bodies of Ingushetia and Chechnya.

Events similar to the international journalists' conference held in early May in the Italian city of Cagliari could become a sort of bridge between the peoples of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Azer Khasret, head of the Azerbaijani information network CASCFEN, and Boris Navasardyan, President of the Yerevan Press Club, who took part in the above international journalists' conference in Sardinia.

Natik Gyulahmedoglu (Adilov), a journalist of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), who was attacked today in Baku, was sent to forensic medical examination. His colleagues are afraid of possible provocations against him.

In the context of the widespread information about numerous cases of attacking girls and women without headscarves from paintball rifles, the enforcement bodies of Chechnya assert that they received no complaints or applications on the occasion of such attacks in Grozny. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) also knows nothing about the facts of appearance of leaflets with threats to girls and women who appear in the streets with uncovered head.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Zapadny District of the city of Krasnodar has delivered official apologies to Anastasia Denisova, head of the human rights NGO named "ETnIKa" for illegal criminal prosecution.

Pavel Astakhov, Children's Ombudsman at the President of the Russian Federation, has justified, in his report on the outcomes of his inspection visit to Northern Caucasus, the need to set up psychological services for children in the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District). According to his story, many children and teenagers in Chechnya grew up amidst warfare and have traumas and wounds.

The Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners and Persecuted Persons has decided to hold a sit-in protest action on June 18 in the capital of Armenia, although the city authorities forbade it.