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Irakli Okruashvili, the leader of the "Georgian Party", should be brought to Georgian justice. The deputy Guram Chakhvadze stated that in the course of today's plenary session of the Parliament of Georgia.

In the nearest future Armenia will set up three Free Economic Zones (FEZs), the reporters were told by Tigran Davtyan, the Minister of Economy. The adoption of the Law "On Free Economic Zones" contributed to the beginning of the works in this direction.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) filed two complaints from the residents of the Rostov Region, practicing the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses. The Russian citizens intend to lodge a protest to the ECtHR on the searches, which were sanctioned by the authorities in respect of them, confiscations and destruction of religious literature, bans on preaching and disruption of religious services.

Today, the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) fined the club "Krylia Sovetov" (Wings of the Soviets) (Samara) by 300,000 roubles for the incident with a banana thrown at the Brazilian player Roberto Carlos, the captain of the "Anji" FC.

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.

Andrei Krasnenkov, the representative of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, today lodged a complaint on the acquittal on charges of slandering his client by Oleg Orlov, the chairman of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", to the secretariat office of the world court No. 363 of the Khamovniki District of Moscow. Andrei Krasnenkov announced about that by himself.

The Moscow authorities have sold 24.5 percent of the "Mospromstroy" to the company of Mikail Shishkhanov, the head of Binbank, and his uncle Mikhail Gutseriev, the head and co-owner of the "Russneft". Mikhail Gutseriev's companies already control more than 75 percent of the shares of this company.

During the week of June 6-12, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 20 human lives; at least 11 more persons were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

Leader of the Labour party of Georgia Shalva Natelashvili called for the oppositional forces to sign a demand of resignation of Georgian President Michael Saakashvili.

The youth branch of the oppositional party “The New Rights” held an action of protest against increasing military presence of the Russian Federation in Abkhazia in front of the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi.

Thirteen servicemen of the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Federal Security Service of Russia were killed in a special operation in Kizlyar district of Dagestan, a source in the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia reported.

In Azerbaijan, on June 23 the Gandzha Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Chingiz Mamedov, held a preparatory session on the case of the activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev. Judge Mamedov appointed the consideration of the appeal on July 5.

Problems of the residents of Magaramkent and Akhtyn Districts of Dagestan, who live in the villages of Khrakh-Uba and Uryan-Uba, located on the territory of Azerbaijan, have been in the focus of hearings of the Working Group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on the development of social dialogue and civil society institutions.

Socially-oriented films will be presented during the International Film Festival on Human Rights "Stalker", which started this evening in Makhachkala.