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Journalist Einullah Fatullaev, imprisoned in Azerbaijan, has stopped his hunger strike announced on June 2 after he learnt that the President of the country knows about the decision of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about his release.

The trial goes on at the Pyatigorsk SIZO (pre-trial prison) on the attack committed on the Republic of Ingushetia at night of June 22, 2004. Two out of twelve defendants have lodged complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) claiming violation of their rights and application of torture. New complaints are pending.

Today, in the administration of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, local bosses met the relatives of Ahmednabi Nazhmudinov, a native of the village of Cherniayevka village, Kizlyar District, who is considered missing since last week. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Zagir Musaev, who was at the meeting.

In North Ossetia, powerful mudslides forced the Mairamadag River to overflow the banks. Traditionally, on weekends plenty of people come to have their rest there; and as reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, two girls and a man were drowned in the river.

Aslan Patiev, a native of Ingushetia and a student of a Stavropol higher school, who was detained in Magas more than a fortnight ago, has not been presented any indictment yet. Now, Patiev is kept in the local SIZO (pre-trial prison). Several days ago the state defender, appointed to him by the investigation, was replaced by advocate Evsei Osinovskiy, who was hired by Patiev's parents.

Users in South Ossetia were switched to new codes of mobile telephony. The "old" network "Megaphone Kavkaz" (code 928) is in roaming - after June 1 in the territory of South Ossetia, while all the incoming and outgoing calls will cost 9 roubles per minute of conversation. Now the communication services are provided by the local operator - the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "Ostelecom".

On June 7, the Russian Ministry of Regional Development held a meeting on compensations for lost houses in Chechnya. According to Svetlana Gannushkina, leader of the NGO "Civil assistance", the officials told that they would be able to calculate the value of the project by July only and asked for a delay.

Today, at 4 a.m., two unidentified persons opened a window and got into the building for religious meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses located in the town of Nartkala in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Today at night, Abdurakhman Gamzatov, a magistrate judge of the Untsukul District, Dagestan, was shot dead, the on duty unit of the local ROVD (District Interior Division) reports.

As stated by the participants of the press conference convoked because of the address of Jehovah's Witnesses to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) after the prohibition of this religious community in the city of Taganrog, any persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia is inadmissible. The believers do not exclude an accelerated consideration of their complaint in Strasbourg, while human rights activists prepare their complaint on the law on extremism to the Constitutional Court.

Today in Makhachkala an explosive device was triggered in Akushinsky Avenue near the Tsumadin wholesale marketplace: four civilians suffered.

Today in Nazran unidentified criminals shelled a car with a local resident inside. The driver died in place. Also near the city's marketplace another person was shot dead.

The "First Caucasian" TV Channel has announced its reorganization, reduced the number of programmes and changed the news schedule. According to Georgi Chanturiya, Director General of the Public Television and Radio Broadcasting of Georgia, the decision to go on with the channel will be made depending on the decision of the court in Paris about access to the satellite.

No additional circumstances have been revealed in the new case initiated against Albert Saaev, a native of Dagestan, accused of complicity to members of the armed underground. This is the opinion of his advocate Viserhadji Ibragimov, who hopes for a conditional sentence to his client.

The strongest downpour last night and today in the morning in Chechnya stopped electric power supplies to several dwelling settlements. Currently, repair teams try to restore them.

On June 6, a well-known Azerbaijani journalist Elman Malyev was arrested and handed over to the inquiry, as reported today by the Central Police Department (CPD) of the city of Baku.

Today in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, an action was held in memory of Larissa Yudina, a journalist, who perished twelve years ago: friends and colleagues of the former editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Sovietskaya Kalmykia Today" laid flowers to her tomb.

In Georgia, the nongovernmental organization (NGO) "Georgian Emigrants" has again announced a start of a permanent 24-hour action near the building of the parliament. A similar announcement was already sounded on May 29.

Today, another rally was held in the city of Kizlyar, where demands to the authorities were voiced out to speed up the search of Ahmednabi Nazhmudinov, a native of Cherniayeva village, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, who disappeared last week.

Today at the process on events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik the victim Ilyas Mashbashev gave evidences. On October 13, 2005, he was senior operative agent at Centre "Т". The defendants accused him of torturing them.