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Today, fishermen from the city of Poti have blocked the Poti-Batumi Highway in Georgia for a couple of hours. The picketers demanded from the authorities to allow them fishing at sea and in Lake Paliastomi, located near Poti.

The today's sitting of the Azeri-Georgian intergovernmental commission in Tbilisi has failed to bring closer the positions of both countries in delimitation and demarcation of the mutual border. This was stated by Khalaf Khalafov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.

In Baku, law enforcement bodies have arrested two more persons in connection with the massacre on April 30 committed in the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA). This is the topic of the joint statement of the General Prosecutor's Office and Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan.

The Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow has sanctioned arrest of Zarema Dadaeva, 34, a native of Grozny, who was detained in Moscow on June 18 as a suspect of kidnapping the son of vice-president of the "Rosneft" Mikhail Stavskiy.

President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has offered those members of radical opposition who had torn their mandates into pieces after parliamentary elections on May 21, 2008, to return to parliament.

Today, in the Karabudakhken District of Dagestan, in the highway section between Dzhanga and Gubden villages, a burned down VAZ-2107 car with scorched bodies of two men was found; presumably, they were participants of illegal armed formations (IAFs), reports the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sarkisyan has forbidden his government to leave for long summer vacations. The reason of his decision is in deterioration of the country's economic situation because of the global financial crisis.

During five months of 2009, twenty illegal migrants were deported from Chechnya; protocols on administrative offences against 200 more persons have been drawn up. This was stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source in the Republic's Migration Service.

On June 18, in Dugulubgei village of Kabardino-Balkaria, minor sons were detained of Sultan Shevkhuzhev, 40, a resident of Dugulubgei, who was killed in a special operation on May 28 in Mechnikova Street in Nalchik. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Sultan's father - Asredin Shevkhuzhev.

Supporters of the opposition have begun rebuilding the tent camp near Saakashvili's residence, destroyed late at night on June 18 by policemen.

On June 18 in Strasbourg, a decision of the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on case No. 2393/05 "Magomadova versus Russia" was announced. The court obliged the Russian Federation to pay 35,000 euros of compensation to the resident of Chechnya.

Over 100 activists of the civil society of Azerbaijan have rallied together today at midday for holding an action near the parliament against the would-be amendments to the Law "On Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)"; however, they were stopped by the police some 300 meters off the building of the National Assembly. Nobody was detained.

Attempts on religious leaders in Ingushetia are committed because they are not afraid to answer any question. This was stated by Ahmed Sultygov, chairman of the PR division of the Administration of Ingushetia, when he spoke about the murder of preacher Abdurakhman Kartoev, 85.

In Stavropol Territory, the investigation is over of the criminal case against the head of the criminal search division of Novoselitskiy ROVD (District Interior Unit) and his subordinate, for whose guilt teenager Dmitri Medkov had been illegally brought to criminal liability for the murder of his sister that he never committed.

Today, the extraordinary session of the National Assembly has adopted with 98 votes for, at three refrained and one vote against, the bill on amnesty submitted by Minister of Justice Gevork Danielyan.

Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the session on the criminal case on the events on October 13, 2005, held under chair of Galina Gorislavskaya, discussed the issue of another three-month extension of defendants' custody term, which expires on June 27.

The Human Rights Centre "Memorial" has expressed its anxiety of the fate of Maskhud Abdullaev, who was deported today from Egypt to Russia for violating the migratory legislation of the former country.

In Baku, near the shopping centre "Teze Basar" (New Marketplace), a suicide attempt of a group of 30 persons was prevented. They were brought to police station No. 21 of the Nasimin District and later released.

The mission of American observers in the OSCE have fixed in their report essential violations admitted on May 31 in the capital of Armenia. In particular, observers report falsification of votes in the course of vote tabulation and violence against candidates' election agents.

On June 17, the Nasimin District Court of Baku, presided by Judge Ikram Shirinov, put a full stop in the trial on the claim lodged by Emin Guseinov, Director of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) against the police of Azerbaijan. The Judge found no grounds to satisfy the claim.