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The Institute for Peace and Democracy has moved a demand to punish the policemen who thrashed on June 14th in the capital of Azerbaijan the journalists and human rights activist who celebrated the 80th birthday of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto (Che) Guevara.

Today is two years after arrest of Armand Babadzhanyan, editor-in-chief of the "Zhamanak-Yerevan" newspaper. A group of his colleagues, journalists and NGO representatives have held a protest action today in the capital of Armenia with a demand to release Mr Babadzhanyan.

Today, the Sochi Winter Theatre has held the official closing ceremony of the 19th "Kinotaurus" Russian Open Film Festival. The prize for the best feature film was given to the "Shultes" film by director-debutant Bakur Bakuradze. The monetary worth of the prize is 625,000 roubles.

Three frontier guards were killed and five more wounded in the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, where militants attacked a motor column of the FSB Department.

On June 16, 2008, Adilgerey Omarov, an advocate from Dagestan, received a notification letter from Strasbourg saying that his claim about collecting 3 million euros from the Russian budget in favour of his client Gasan Baisultanov has been accepted for consideration by the European Court for Human Rights.

On June 13, about one hundred of parents of high school graduates who failed their test examination came to the building of the Parliament of Azerbaijan to express their protest against the new procedure of issuing certificates. A conflict burst out between the journalists who covered the action and law enforcement bodies.

The Parliament of Sweden (Riksdag) has refused to adopt a resolution to recognize the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey during WW I to be an act of genocide.

The talks in Geneva on the new version of the report of the working group on Russia's accession to the WTO, planned for June 16, will pass without participation of Georgia.

One of the projects of the South Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, supported by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine and the Russian Fund of Fundamental Researches, will deal with fighting pollution of the Azov Sea.

The authorities of Azerbaijan have no intention to make any more changes in the Electoral Code of the country.

Today, from early morning, the temples and churches of the city of Budyonnovsk (Stavropol Territory) have hosted sermons in memory of the victims of the 1995 attack on the city of armed militants under command of Shamil Basaev.

In the context of the refusal of the Mayoralty of the capital of Armenia to sanction the oppositional rally and march planned on June 20, the Nationwide Movement has made a statement that the opposition "would give another chance" to the authorities to sanction the events, but the rally will take place despite any possible prohibition.

The European Court for Human Rights has satisfied two claims lodged by Chechnya's natives who had accused Russian authorities of implication in kidnapping their relatives in 2001-2003 and ruled that Russian government should to pay out over 120,000 euros of compensation.

Today, the Court on Heavy Military Crimes of Azerbaijan has finalized the process on the case of a group of former securities of the Baku Airport, accused of cooperating with Russian special agencies.

At night on June 13, some 30-60 militants entered the village of Benoy-Vedeno, Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, and for several hours kept the settlement under their full control, a source in the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya has informed.

The regime of counterterrorist operation has been introduced today in the village of Bairamaul, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. For two hours special fighters were storming the house, where, under the operative information, militant Saipudin Ibragimov, 32, announced into search, was hiding.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has called on the authorities of Azerbaijan to detect those persons in charge of torturing Sardar Dzalaloglu, leader of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan.

Today, the Venetian Commission of the Council of Europe has started discussing the changes in the Law of Armenia "On Rallies, Meetings, Marches and Demonstrations", which had been passed in the second reading.

Today, the city of Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic, has launched the First International Film Festival named "Noah's Ark". The contest comprises 44 movies from 21 countries of the world.

Today in Baku, Emin Guseinov, head of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety of Azerbaijan, was detained by employees of the Special Service of State Security who are in charge of guarding the presidential administration.