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On July 5 the Supreme Court of Dagestan will consider the appeal of the Prosecutor's Office of the republic to the verdict of the Lenin Federal Court of Makhachkala dated May 19, 2011. The Prosecutor's Office demands to cancel the acquittal of the journalists of the Dagestani weekly newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft).

Sergei Kaziev, the defendant in the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, which is under proceedings at by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, filed a motion for consideration of the case without his presence due to health deterioration. Today's court hearing was adjourned until Thursday, July 7, due to Sergei Kaziev's disease.

The trial on the case against the twenty-seven-year-old native of Nalchik Aslan Cherkesov accused of murder of “Spartak” football fan Yegor Sviridov will start in Moscow city court today. According to the defendant’s attorney Dmitry Pankov, he intends to ask for holding the next session in camera.

The search of the group of gunmen who on July, 2, started skirmish with members of power ministries in a mountainous and woody area of the highland district of Vedeno has ended in failure. The officers do not rule out that the participants of a paramilitary group under the command of Gakaev brothers could have left the blocked area in several small groups.

Magomed Evloev and Alikhan Dovtaev, residents of the village of Nesterovskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, were detained on suspicion of possessing weapons and explosives. They are held in the IVS (temporary isolation facility) in Ingushetia, reported a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the republic.

Last night at the courthouse, located in the centre of the city of Malgobek, the unidentified persons put in operation an explosive device with power of about 10 kilograms in TNT equivalent, and then they shot three times from the grenade launcher to the courthouse, reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

The Yeysk City Court of the Krasnodar Territory has announced the sentence to two employees of the Moscow school accused of the death of six schoolchildren in the camp of "Azov".

During the week from June 13 to June 19, at least 12 persons were killed and at least 13 more were wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other public sources.

Should the terror act prevented in the village of Terskol happen, it could have destroyed the entire ropeway construction in the Azau Meadow and caused destructions to nearby buildings. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by the administration of the village of Elbrus.

The names of the members of the armed underground, who were killed today in a special operation in Kizilyurt, have become known. They are Arthur Dalgatov, born in 1985, and his common-law wife Aminat Darbisheva, born in 1990, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

The Tbilisi City Court has sentenced, under the motion of the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, in absentia Irakli Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence and co-chair of the "Georgian Party", to two months of custody as a preventive measure of liberty deprivation.

Chechnya continues investigating the killing of two sisters, the youngest of whom was 15 years old. The bodies of the girls were sent to examination, the local law enforcers assert. Their father who confessed of murdering one of the daughters by negligence is under threat of up to 20 years in prison.

The law enforcement authorities of Chechnya have instituted a criminal case against the director of the Petroleum College of the Grozny State Technical University, who is suspected of taking bribes.

Today, the Tver Court of Moscow rejected the claim of the relatives of the schoolchildren lost in Yeysk Spit, containing demand of compensation for material damages. As the lawyer Igor Trunov, who represents the families of the deceased, said, the court's decision would be appealed.

The law enforcement authorities of Azerbaijan detained the fourth suspect in beating on 15 June in Baku of Amanda Erickson, an American journalist, and Celia Davis, a British human rights activist. This is Nazim Khuseinov, a resident of Babak District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). All four detainees said that they did not know who the girls were and that initially they wanted to get acquainted with them.