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The founder and the editorial board the newspaper named "Chernovik" (Blueprint) plan to submit to the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan their arguments on illegitimacy of the claim filed by "Rossvyazkomnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency on Supervising Communications) and asking to close the edition; they also want to demand dismissal of Shamil Magomedov, acting head of the Republic's branch of "Rossvyazkomnadzor".

On June 19, the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia will hold its extraordinary session to discuss the proposal of President Serzh Sargsyan to announce amnesty. The corresponding decision was signed by Ovik Abramyan, chairman of the NA.

Miasnik Malkhasyan, one of the defendants in the former "Case of Seven" and a Deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia, has stated in his last plea at the trial that would not ask for a pardon, and his only demand is acquittal as an innocently condemned victim.

Today in the afternoon, the Tbilisi-based oppositional TV channels "Maestro" and "Kavkasia" resumed their broadcasting interrupted yesterday in protest against actions of the police. This was reported by Mamuka Glonti, Director General of "Maestro".

Irakliy Kordzai, leader of the movement named "Why?", reports that in Tbilisi unidentified persons kidnapped one of the activists of the opposition - Shalva Goginashvili, 21, a member of the organization "April 9".

The Chechen Republic is one of three places in Russia, where in 1993-2007 none of the killers of journalists was ever made answerable. This was stated at presentation of the report "Selective justice. Investigation into journalists' deaths in Russia, 1993-2009", prepared by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

Those graduates of the boarding school located in Nartan village, Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, who continue writing applications in defence of dismissed school director Liudmila Mamkhegova, were accused of stealing a computer, 17,000 roubles and passports from the study of the social teacher.

Valery Rostovschikov, Ombudsman of the Volgograd Region, made a check, together with employees of the GUVD (Regional Interior Department), of observance of the rights of the persons kept temporary detention facilities (known as "IVS"). Thus, in such facility of the city of Volzhskiy detainees are given meals once a day instead of three times, as prescribed by the law.

On Sunday, June 14, in Krasnodar, 54 workers of one of building companies were hospitalized after eating some bad food.

In the mountainous Vedeno District of Chechnya a small boy was wounded by explosion of an unidentified mine or bomb. He was hospitalized in the state of medium gravity.

Last night in Makhachkala, in a skirmish of two unidentified persons with militiamen a casual passer-by was killed; and in the settlement named Aerodrom, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, three armed persons in masks shot dead a worker of the Makhachkala Department of North-Caucasian Railways and his wife.

Three participants of the protest action held on Monday by refugees from Abkhazia near the building housing the United Nations' Mission in Tbilisi were injured in a road accident.

In the city of Georgievsk, Stavropol Territory, a group of youngsters accused of hooliganism with use of objects as arms were detained. In the evening on June 3, some fifteen guys aged 17-20, armed with tire irons and reinforcing bars went out into streets with nationalist slogans and beat several persons.

At the trial on events of October 13, 2005, held by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, under a petition lodged by defendant Kanshoubi Boriev, whose father died, as break was announced till tomorrow, June 16.

Many oppositionists suffered during attack on the "city of cells". Earlier, Zviad Dzidziguri, leader of the Conservative Party, said that two persons suffered in the scuffle.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) has treated the actions of the policemen who used force against oppositionists last Friday, on June 12, as excessive. Human rights defenders assert that the clash could have been avoided.

The President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity has expressed his readiness to deliver some of his powers to the parliament with the aim to strengthen the position of the legislative power and MPs in his republic.

Bashir Aushev, former vice-premier of the republic who worked until now in the government was murdered in Ingushetia.

In Georgia, the court has found the five oppositionists arrested on June 12 guilty of hooliganism against MPs and brought them to administrative responsibility.

The President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has demanded that top executives cancel their summer vacations until full completion in the territory of the republic of special operations aimed to liquidate members of armed underground formations.