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On June, 28, a nineteen-year-old resident of Urus-Martan district of Chechnya Yusup Magomedov was sentenced to six years and one month of custody by the court with service of the sentence in a general regime colony for committing an act of terror. The reason for Yusup Magomedov’s joining the gunmen became the murder of his close relative who had also been a participant of armed underground, a representative of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya considers.

On June, 27, the personnel of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya detained a father of two girls, one of them underage, in Shelkovskoy district of the republic for suspicion of having committed a murder. The “Caucasian Knot” correspondent received this news from the republican law enforcement bodies.

Three brothers and natives from Chechnya – Magomed, Issa and Ayub Gafurov, whose participation in the conflict with Cossacks in Zelenokumsk in November 2010 is considered by the court, went on hunger strike, Natalia Shamra, press-secretary of the Soviet District Court of the Stavropol Territory, reported today.

So far, law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan refrain from comments on possible motives for the beating on June 15 in Baku of the American journalist Amanda Erickson and British human rights defender Celia Davis, despite detention of three suspects of committing this crime.

Investigation of the criminal case against a resident of Astrakhan accused of preparation and committing explosions near the buildings of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and the Academy of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Volgograd this April “on the grounds of ideological hate” has been accomplished.

The officials of the Security Council of the Republic of Ingushetia are categorically refuting the information that the leader of the North-Caucasian armed underground Dokku Umarov may be hiding in the Djeirakh District of the republic, as had been reported earlier by a source from law enforcement bodies of Chechnya.

The power ministries of Chechnya consider that after undergoing a course of therapy in Turkey leader of North-Caucasian armed underground Dokku Umarov may be staying in the territory of Ingushetia.

The Krasnodar Territory Court held a session on the criminal case on death of six Moscow schoolchildren in the summer camp at Yeysk Spit. The session was held with the use of videoconferencing, with the help of which the complainants were interrogated.

The criminal case of born in Nalchik Aslan Cherkesov, the main suspect in the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the football club "Spartak" is to be considered at the Savyolovsky Court the next two weeks. The Cherkesov's advocate said that the defence intends to request a jury trial.

On June 21 in the night, at approximately 4:00 a.m. Moscow time, in the village of Sagopshi of the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons exploded the house, belonging to a local resident. There were no casualties and injured, because nobody lived in the house. The building suffered considerable damage.

Today the Supreme Court of Dagestan convicted three residents of the republic, accused in the case of a double terror act in Kizlyar, which occurred on March 31, 2010.

There is confirmed data of five lost and twelve wounded officers of law enforcement bodies as a result of a special operation going on in Kizlyar district of Dagestan, Press service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports.

A large-scale special operation against participants of armed underground which started on May, 20, in Vedeno district of Chechnya has not yielded any results yet, a source in the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reports.

The prosecutor Andrei Nazarov, speaking in the debates in the Supreme Court of Dagestan, demanded life imprisonment sentence for all three defendants in the case of terror act in Kizlyar on March 31, 2010.