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A self-made explosive device triggered today evening in Nalchik. The explosion occurred at the moment when a militia patrol was passing by. There were no victims.

The management of the private clinic in Makhachkala where Sapiyat Magomedova was undergoing treatment was under pressure in the form of various monitoring agencies, and a decision to transfer her to Moscow has been taken as result, report the lawyer's relatives.

The militia officers failed to carry out the necessary operational investigation on the explosions near the building of Kizilyurt district court, while the criminal case was initiated only upon the interference of the prosecutor's office, states Magomed Dibirov, first deputy prosecutor of Dagestan, to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The prosecutor's office of the Volgograd Central district has revealed facts of placing in Internet of offers to purchase the book by A.Hitler "Mein Kampf", included into the federal list of extremist materials.

On July 1, the Novoshakhtinsk district court of Rostov oblast passed a sentence to four functionaries of the municipal company "Vodocanal", finding them guilty of violating the sanitary and epidemiological regulations which resulted in a mass poisoning of the town residents with potable water.

The power of the explosive device used by the suicide terrorist, which exploded in the evening of June 30 in the center of the Chechen capital, was one-and-a-half kilogram of trotyl equivalent. The law enforcement agencies think that the aim of the suicide bomber could be the republic's president Ramzan Kadyrov.

In the course of today's explosion on the railway in Dagestan, two engine drivers have received shocks and leg wounds, 12 railway cars have been derailed and overturned. The place of the accident is now studied by mine pickers and dog specialists.

The opposition-minded community of Rostov-on-Don has announced its intention to hold a city action, Day of Anger. The event is planned for June 7 at 18.00 p.m, reports political scientist Sergei Reznik, one of the event organizers, independent journalist, to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Ratmir Fotov held in a pre-trial prison of Nalchik has filed a complaint at the KBR public human rights center, in which he claims that he has been tortured already in the pre-trial facility.

In 2011, the Georgian Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources plans to destroy more than 500 tons of pesticides. The toxic chemicals are going to be exterminated in cement kilns. However, ecologists doubt the legitimacy of such actions because the project and the expert opinions have not been made public.

On June 30, an exploded car with fragments of three human bodies was found in Dagestan near Makhachkala.

Abkhazia denies having taken part in the shooting at the post in Ganmukhuri on the Georgian bank of the river Ingur, which resulted, according to Georgian media, in wounding one policeman.

Dwelling houses and cottages are prepared to be built on the territories of the All-Russia research institute of horticulture and sub-tropic plants in Sochi, used for cultivating selection varieties. In the course of clearing them, bulldozers have already entered a plot with the best selection varieties of tea and hazel-nut.

The Chechen MoI names of law enforcement officers and local residents who suffered from the yesterday's terrorist act in Grozny. According to new information, eight people suffered from the explosion.

FSS criminal expert has found signs of extremism in the article by the murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov "Patriotism as a Diagnosis", published in autumn 2009 in the "Avtonom" magazine.

Yuri Babin, ex-member of Volgograd city council and former teacher of family ethics, suspected of perverting 20 schoolchildren, has partially pleaded guilty but refuses to give evidence.

The Inter-regional Committee against Torture has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights on the torture of Amur Ganaev, resident of Chechnya, who was detained by Chechnya operational service officers in January 2006 and brought to the ОRB-2 (criminal investigation bureau).

Employees of Azeri ombudsman's office have made "a long-term - two-day visit" of Gobustan prison "with the aim of preventing torture and other cases of inhuman or degrading treatment", in the course of which they have revealed facts of exerting pressure on inmates.

Dmitri Novikov, former judge of Khosta district court in Krasnodar Krai, accused of organizing embezzling of 17 "Olympic" land plots in Sochi, has appealed against the permission of the Krasnodar Krai judges' qualification board for bringing him to criminal responsibility on the case of illegal recognition of title for a land plot which is now within the zone of Olympic construction.

Russia occupies 83rd place by the number of women in the bodies of power, with virtually no women in Kalmykia authorities, claimed Natalia Manzhikova, president of non-profit foundation "Gender Equality", at the forum on consolidating women's movement.