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Pavel Astakhov, Children's Ombudsman at the President of the Russian Federation, has justified, in his report on the outcomes of his inspection visit to Northern Caucasus, the need to set up psychological services for children in the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District). According to his story, many children and teenagers in Chechnya grew up amidst warfare and have traumas and wounds.

The Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners and Persecuted Persons has decided to hold a sit-in protest action on June 18 in the capital of Armenia, although the city authorities forbade it.

As a result of shelling the RPS (road-post service) post located at the northern exit from the capital of Dagestan a militiaman was killed.

Capture of militants' leader named Magas; hot debates on the role of the Russian language in Armenia, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of June 7-13, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, refused to uphold the verdict passed by the local city court to student Ilya Kartsev. According to Zakhar Kazaryan, senior assistant of the Public Prosecutor of the city of Nevinnomyssk, his boss brought in a cassation presentation - a complaint against legality of the verdict; and now the case of Nevinnomyssk gamer will be reconsidered by the Territorial Court, the panel on criminal cases.

Most of the organizers of terror acts in Moscow metro and at railway station in Derbent were killed. This was reported today at the sitting of the National Antiterrorist Committee in Moscow by Director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov.

Today, in the city of Gal, an extraordinary meeting is held of the working group on prevention of incidents and reaction mechanisms to them in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone. The United Nations have initiated the meeting.

On June 14-15, in Kabardino-Balkaria, a number of incidents took place. Thus, today in Nalchik an explosion was triggered and wounded an FSB agent. Yesterday, on June 14, two local residents were killed in the capital of the republic. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, in South Ossetia, in the vicinity of Disev village, which is bordering on Georgia, after an attack from the Georgian post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs located in the village of Koshki, a citizen of the republic Anatoly Kisiev was wounded.

The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have disclosed the names of several suspected members of the armed underground who were killed on June 9 in the mountainous Vedeno District. Last weekend four more potential militants were liquidated here, the bodies assert. Local human rights activists are sceptical of the data.

Today, the Stavropol Territory holds mourning actions in memory of the victims of Shamil Basaev's attack on Budyonnovsk in June 1995.

Today in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, an explosion took place in the yard of the multi-storey apartment block No. 28 in Moskovskaya Street. As reported by the local MIA, it was triggered by a local aged 46.