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The Supreme Court of Dagestan has decided to send the murder case of Magomedhadji Abashilov, Director of the State TV and Radio Company (GTRK) "Dagestan", to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for additional investigation and correction of the mistakes made in the course of the inquiry.

Today, the city of Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, opened the second economic forum named "Bridge Artsakh-2010", which will last till June 28.

Hailstones that struck Georgia at night on June 25 caused a serious damage to agriculture of the Kakheti District. Several villages completely lost their crops; orchards and vineyards suffered; settlements of summer cottages and household yards were damaged.

The Ministry on Diaspora Matters is organizing, together with the Union of Writers of Armenia, from June 28 to July 2 in Yerevan the 5th Forum of Writers under the motto "Armenian Literature Is Armenian Fortress". The forum is held within the festival "One Nation - One Culture" and will bring together about 100 writers from 20 countries.

A criminal case was initiated against an operative militiaman of the criminal inquiry division No. 3 of the Stavropol UVD (Interior Department) under the articles of "abuse of office" and "illegal storage, transportation and bearing of explosives". This was reported by the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office).

In the Krasnodar Territorial Court, in the course of the trial on a series of explosions in Sochi, one of the suspects - a former TV cameraman Mikhail Denisenko - told about how they had prepared their crimes.

The state prosecution in the case dealing with the 2005 attack on power structures of Kabardino-Balkaria lodged a cassation presentation to the Supreme Court of Russia challenging the change of custody for defendant Kazbek Budtuev. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by lawyer Liza Shak, who is defending Budtuev.

The Kusar District Court of Azerbaijan has reappointed the court session on the case of the resident of Dagestan Usman Garisov, accused of drug contraband and use on July 13, said Umar Garisov, the detainee's brother, a resident of Karanaiaul village of the Kayakent District of Dagestan.

Mevlut Chavushoglu, Head of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said that the Assembly did not invite Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, to its events.

Today it became known that the "Rostransnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Supervising Transports) notified all Russian airports about possible acts of terrorism in air transport committed by female suicide bombers. According to the Agency's telegram of June 18, bombs may be implanted into women's bodies and triggered by means of injections, while women of Slavic appearance may be used for the actions.

In the Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, tonight two unidentified persons used their firearms to attack employees of the Chegem ROVD. One of them was killed, and the other one - wounded and hospitalized.

Today, at about 6:00 p.m. Moscow time, in the suburb of the municipal district Alkievskiy of Nazran, in Nazran-Karabulak Highway, a DPS (Road and Post Service) car with three STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, known in Russia as "GIBDD") inspectors of the Ingush MIA inside was shelled. Two inspectors died.

Ombudsperson in Dagestan Ummupazil Omarova went to hospital to visit lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten by employees of Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Department). According to Ms Omarova, President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov has ordered to bring those guilty persons to responsibility.

The Rostov-based branch of the organization "Young Europe" and association "Rainbow Syndrome" deny their participation in appearance of the letter disseminated in Rostov-on-Don allegedly on behalf of the local LGBT-community (LGBT - lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transvestites). Activists of these organizations assert their names and phone numbers were used by someone for forgery.

The verdict of the Moscow Regional Court to Khavazhi Yusupov, a native of Chechnya, which sentenced him to 8.5 years of imprisonment for his attempt on businessman Isa Yamadaev - a brother of earlier assassinated ex-deputy of the Russian State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion "East" Sulim Yamadaev, has been appealed against at the Supreme Court of Russia.