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The state prosecution in the case dealing with the 2005 attack on power structures of Kabardino-Balkaria lodged a cassation presentation to the Supreme Court of Russia challenging the change of custody for defendant Kazbek Budtuev. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by lawyer Liza Shak, who is defending Budtuev.

The Kusar District Court of Azerbaijan has reappointed the court session on the case of the resident of Dagestan Usman Garisov, accused of drug contraband and use on July 13, said Umar Garisov, the detainee's brother, a resident of Karanaiaul village of the Kayakent District of Dagestan.

Mevlut Chavushoglu, Head of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said that the Assembly did not invite Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, to its events.

Today it became known that the "Rostransnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Supervising Transports) notified all Russian airports about possible acts of terrorism in air transport committed by female suicide bombers. According to the Agency's telegram of June 18, bombs may be implanted into women's bodies and triggered by means of injections, while women of Slavic appearance may be used for the actions.

In the Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, tonight two unidentified persons used their firearms to attack employees of the Chegem ROVD. One of them was killed, and the other one - wounded and hospitalized.

Today, at about 6:00 p.m. Moscow time, in the suburb of the municipal district Alkievskiy of Nazran, in Nazran-Karabulak Highway, a DPS (Road and Post Service) car with three STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, known in Russia as "GIBDD") inspectors of the Ingush MIA inside was shelled. Two inspectors died.

Ombudsperson in Dagestan Ummupazil Omarova went to hospital to visit lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten by employees of Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Department). According to Ms Omarova, President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov has ordered to bring those guilty persons to responsibility.

The Rostov-based branch of the organization "Young Europe" and association "Rainbow Syndrome" deny their participation in appearance of the letter disseminated in Rostov-on-Don allegedly on behalf of the local LGBT-community (LGBT - lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transvestites). Activists of these organizations assert their names and phone numbers were used by someone for forgery.

The verdict of the Moscow Regional Court to Khavazhi Yusupov, a native of Chechnya, which sentenced him to 8.5 years of imprisonment for his attempt on businessman Isa Yamadaev - a brother of earlier assassinated ex-deputy of the Russian State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion "East" Sulim Yamadaev, has been appealed against at the Supreme Court of Russia.

On June 23, a churchman from Georgia addressed the authorities of South Ossetia with a request of political shelter.

The today's session at the trial on the attack on power agencies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005, started with an incident: lawyer Zalim Dzagashtov refused to present his bag for inspection at the entrance to the courtroom, left it at the securities, entered the room without documents and made a declaration about his impossibility to defend his clients.

Tigran Balayan, press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, has refuted the information disseminated by the Forum of the Armenian Societies of Europe (FASE), about an agreement reached between the USA and Russia about launching of a short-term war in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with the aim to deploy Russian peacemakers in Kelbadzhar and American ones in Fizuli.

Vadim Gvindzhiya, head of the Gali ROVD (District Interior Division), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the charges of the Georgian party concerning the attack on the Andzhaparidze family in the village of Rep, Gali District of Abkhazia, are not legitimate.

Zurab Nogaideli, ex-prime minister of Georgia, now the leader of the oppositional political party "For Fair Georgia", accused today at a press conference the country leaders of mass "politically-motivated" lay-offs of teachers.

According to Alexander Lozychenko, deputy chair of the Gukov Territorial Committee of the Russian Independent Coal Industry Workers' Trade Union ("Rosugleprof"), most likely, the prosecutor's checks conducted in the mines in the Rostov Region will not result in any improvement of the situation. According to his story, the revealed violations are usual for the regional coal industry.

Andrei Babushkin, head of the Committee for Civil Rights and a member of the Public Council at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), said in the course of the roundtable on the medical aspect of torture applied in prisons and isolation facilities that his Committee receives many applications from North-Caucasian inmates complaining that their rights as prisoners are restrained, including on the basis of their religious affiliation.

The criminality in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is under effect of the nationalist-extremist underground groupings, which use different methods but have one aim - destabilization of situation. This was stated today by Arthur Makhov, deputy public prosecutor of the republic at the sitting of the Public Chamber of the KBR.

As reported today by the press service of the Kremlin, based on the outcomes of the meeting with Chechen leadership on June 14, 2010, President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has approved the list of his instructions (orders).

Lately, more than twenty applicants from Chechnya, whose cases were supported by the International Advocacy Support Centre, received compensations under decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This was reported on June 22 by the head of the Centre Karina Moskalenko. In her opinion, justice in Russia faces huge obstacles.

The case of Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten in Khasavyurt, is considered by the investigatory division on especially important cases of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, which refuses to give any comments on the course of inquiry. According to the head of the Khasavyurt OVD (Interior Division) Shamil Temigereev, lawyer Magomedova attacked militiamen herself.