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On June 13, about one hundred of parents of high school graduates who failed their test examination came to the building of the Parliament of Azerbaijan to express their protest against the new procedure of issuing certificates. A conflict burst out between the journalists who covered the action and law enforcement bodies.

The Parliament of Sweden (Riksdag) has refused to adopt a resolution to recognize the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey during WW I to be an act of genocide.

The talks in Geneva on the new version of the report of the working group on Russia's accession to the WTO, planned for June 16, will pass without participation of Georgia.

One of the projects of the South Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, supported by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine and the Russian Fund of Fundamental Researches, will deal with fighting pollution of the Azov Sea.

The authorities of Azerbaijan have no intention to make any more changes in the Electoral Code of the country.

Today, from early morning, the temples and churches of the city of Budyonnovsk (Stavropol Territory) have hosted sermons in memory of the victims of the 1995 attack on the city of armed militants under command of Shamil Basaev.

In the context of the refusal of the Mayoralty of the capital of Armenia to sanction the oppositional rally and march planned on June 20, the Nationwide Movement has made a statement that the opposition "would give another chance" to the authorities to sanction the events, but the rally will take place despite any possible prohibition.

The European Court for Human Rights has satisfied two claims lodged by Chechnya's natives who had accused Russian authorities of implication in kidnapping their relatives in 2001-2003 and ruled that Russian government should to pay out over 120,000 euros of compensation.

Today, the Court on Heavy Military Crimes of Azerbaijan has finalized the process on the case of a group of former securities of the Baku Airport, accused of cooperating with Russian special agencies.

At night on June 13, some 30-60 militants entered the village of Benoy-Vedeno, Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, and for several hours kept the settlement under their full control, a source in the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya has informed.

The regime of counterterrorist operation has been introduced today in the village of Bairamaul, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. For two hours special fighters were storming the house, where, under the operative information, militant Saipudin Ibragimov, 32, announced into search, was hiding.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has called on the authorities of Azerbaijan to detect those persons in charge of torturing Sardar Dzalaloglu, leader of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan.

Today, the Venetian Commission of the Council of Europe has started discussing the changes in the Law of Armenia "On Rallies, Meetings, Marches and Demonstrations", which had been passed in the second reading.

Today, the city of Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic, has launched the First International Film Festival named "Noah's Ark". The contest comprises 44 movies from 21 countries of the world.

Today in Baku, Emin Guseinov, head of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety of Azerbaijan, was detained by employees of the Special Service of State Security who are in charge of guarding the presidential administration.

The situation in recent years in Ingushetia is comparable with the pre-war situation in the 1990s in the neighbouring Chechen Republic. This is the opinion of Ruslan Badalov, Chairman of the Chechen Committee of National Salvation, expressed at the conference on human rights in Russia that was held on June 9-10 in Finland.

The two-peak Elborus mountain, the highest peak of Russia and Europe, located in the junction of the borders of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachaevo-Circassia, and the Mamay Mound memorial with the statue of Mother-Homeland in Volgograd have been enlisted among seven Russian wonders.

On June 12, the Court on Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan started proceedings on the case of citizen of Saudi Arabia named Nail Abdul Kerim al-Bedevi, also known as Abu Dzhafar, and 17 other defendants. All of them are accused of setting up an armed terrorist group.

A mass protest action was held on June 11 in the Gudermes District of Chechnya, near the disposition of the special-purpose battalion "Vostok" (East) of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (known as GRU).

The monitoring conducted by the military observers from the Mixed Peacekeeping Forces (MPKF) and a representative of the OSCE Mission has shown that on June 11 four explosions took place in the area of the "Tamarasheni" peacekeepers' post in South Ossetia.