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The police of Baku have prohibited a group of activists from a number of Islam-oriented Azerbaijani NGOs and political parties to hold a non-sanctioned protest action against the visit to the country of Israeli President Shimon Peres in front of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan.

Today, hackers attacked the website of the Ministry of Press of Chechnya, having placed a message in its main page that the responsibility for the attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov was taken by some "special operative group mujahads' group". The message also wrote that it was "Allah's punishment".

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation does not find the fact that ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev had threatened President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to be proved. Isa Yamadaev has stated that his brother did not make any calls to Chechnya from the United Arab Emirates and did not announce his blood feud to Kadyrov and Deputy of the State Duma Adam Delimkhanov.

Zarema Muzhikhoeva, a woman from Chechnya, sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for an attempt to commit a terror act in Moscow in 2003, has addressed President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev with a petition for pardon. According to her version, she was forced to become a shahid by her material difficulties.

Today, the Tsentralny District Court of Sochi has refused to satisfy the claim lodged by politician Boris Nemtsov, who demanded to cancel the outcomes of electing the Mayor of Sochi, which took place on April 26.

The health condition of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov and his driver Ramzan Evkurov, wounded in the terror act on June 22 in Nazran, has not changed essentially; both are still are in stable grave condition.

Recommendations were given to tour agencies of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) to move their proposals on social tourism, intended for people with limited physical capabilities.

In 2009 in Azerbaijan, as compared with last year, the number of cases when torture was applied to citizens in temporary detention facilities and prisons has increased. This was stated by Elchin Bekhbudov, Chairman of the Azerbaijani Committee against Tortures, at the press conference on June 25, International Day in Support of Torture Victims.

Gagik Eganyan, head of the Migration Agency of the Ministry of Territorial Management, told journalists that the forecasts about forced comeback from Russia of 150,000 Armenians, who lost their jobs there, did not come true. According to his story, Armenians in Russia agree to do less paid work but not to return to their homeland.

All the new residents of Nekrasovskoe village located in the Imereti Lowland of Sochi will get their new houses by May 2010. This was promised by Alexander Saurin, vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory, who is supervising preparations to Olympiad-2014 in Sochi.

On June 25, as a result of a failure of the main water supply line "Edici-Tskhinvali", the city of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, remained without water. City Mayor Robert Guliev has reported that the accident took place in Andis village, Tskhinvali District of South Ossetia.

The 34 miners, who were on strike in the Rostov Region with a demand to pay out their three-month salary debts, have gone out of the mine. All the debts have been paid off. According to Gennady Kopaev, trade union leader of the mine, the total wage debt was over 21 million roubles.

In the course of forming Kalmykia's news united government, President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has cut its staff approximately by half, as reported by Buyancha Galzanov, press secretary of the nation's leader.

After the end of the almost ten-year counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya, announced on April 16, 70 days have expired. During this period Chechnya saw a growth of the number of terror acts, murders of power agents and kidnappings. This is confirmed by calculations made from the archive data of the "Caucasian Knot" and open sources.

Starting today, the opposition of Georgia has stopped their picket at the Avlabar residence of President Mikhail Saakashvili, which lasted for about 70 days. According to the information of the press service of the "Movements for United Georgia", the picket was lifted in order to defend oppositionists against arrest and political persecution.

The expert group of the Board of State Support of NGOs of Azerbaijan has prepared a compromise version of amendments to the legislation on NGOs.

The litigation under the claim of the "Rossvyazkomnadzor" (Federal Communications Supervision Agency) Department for Dagestan demanding to stop the "Chernovik" newspaper was suspended today at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan until the end of an additional linguistic and psychological examination of paper publications.

Today, the Military Panel of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has decided to cancel the acquittal verdict passed this February to four figurants in the murder case of the journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya and sent the case to a new consideration by other judges of the Moscow regional Military Court. The parties in the trial have disagreed with the decision.

In the Rostov Region, miners of the Chikh Mine located in the city of Shakhty have announced a strike with a demand to get their three-month salary debts. Last night a shift staff of miners - over 30 persons - refused to go upstairs from their mine.

Chechen human rights activists believe that Maskhud, son of Supyan Abdullaev, closest associate of Doku Umarov and his probable successor as Amir of Caucasian separatists, who disappeared under unclear circumstances on June 19 in Domodedovo Moscow Airport, could be kidnapped by FSB agents or Ramzan Kadyrov's people.