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This year, the Eighth Traditional International Festival "Golden Apricot" has received a record number of applications – 630 films from 81 countries; out of them, 150 films from 45 countries were selected for the contest, Mikael Stamboltsyan, the festival programme director, told reporters. The festival will last from July 10 to July 17.

During the week of May 30-June 5, at least ten persons were lost and at least eight more were injured 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 open sources.

In the morning on June 11, in the highway "Untsukul-Shamilkala", explosive devices were triggered, when the VAZ-21014 car with the above head of the Untsukul District Electric Grid inside was passing by.

On June 11 in Moscow during a working meeting, the basic principles of Nagorno-Karabakh settlement were discussed by heads of MFAs (Ministries of Foreign Affairs) of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan Eduard Nalbandyan, Sergei Lavrov and Elmar Mamedyarov respectively.

Announcement of the verdict to Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Council of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who is accused of slandering the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, is scheduled for Tuesday, June 14. The verdict will be read out at 4:30 p.m. in the courtroom of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow.

The niche of independent journalism in Azerbaijan is almost completely destroyed; the country has big problems with the freedom of speech; however, readers want restoration of independent newspapers and continuation of the previous political course. This was stated by Einullah Fatullaev, a former political prisoner and editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", who had spent his last 4 years in prison and was released on May 26. Therefore, he intends to continue publishing his newspapers.

Abusupyan Gaitaev, advocate of the blogger Alexei Dudko, intends to file a cassation complaint against the sentence passed by Judge Natalia Larina from the Taganka District Court of Moscow, which awarded Dudko with 6 years in a minimum security colony.

In the Canadian city of Toronto, eight Armenians began their 72-hour-long hunger strike, saying that they protest against denial by Turkey of Armenian Genocide.

The assassination of former colonel Yuri Budanov has nothing to do with the death of Elza Kungaeva, which caused Budanov's conviction in 2003, as Visa Kungaev, the girl's father, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by telephone from Norway.

On June 10, at the headquarters of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, the diplomatic corps and heads of the international organizations deployed in Azerbaijan held a meeting with activists of the oppositional Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC).

Eighty residents of the village Boiko-Ponura, Kalinin District of the Krasnodar Territory, went on hunger strike, said Alexei Volchenko, a farmer. However, the district administration does not confirm this information.

The Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP) is obsolete; while its equipment and location are a potential hazard. The conclusions of the commission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding the safety of the ANPP are just a formal assessment. This statement was made today by Akop Sanasaryan, Chairman of the Union of Greens.