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At least two residents of the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya have suffered in an attack of police officers from the local ROVD (District Interior Division), who forcibly shaved off beards and hairs on the heads of young men. This was reported by a friend of the victims. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Chechen Republic does not comment on that information.

The case against Vakhid Bersanov, ex-head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) "Chechengazprom", accused of fraud in the amount of 35 million roubles, was brought to the court. This was reported by the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia.

On June 17, Viskhan Daudov, a 27-year-old resident of the village of Staraya Sunzha, was captured and driven away to some unknown destination from the mosque of the Grozny village named after Kalinin. According to residents of Grozny, along with him, armed men in uniform drove away two other young men, whose names were unknown.

Yusup Ektumaev, Makhmud Madaev, and Kemran Karsamov were detained on suspicion of involvement in committing explosion of an improvised land mine, committed on April 17 in the Cossack village of Assinovskaya of the Sunzha District of the Chechen Republic. Their relatives and lawyer claimed that the detainees were tortured. According to them, the detainees have confessed under torture and they intend to retract unlawfully given confessions at trial.

In the framework of the investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", investigators conducted a confrontation of two defendants in the case Sergey Khadjikurbanov, and Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, ex-officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Following the results of that investigatory action, Sergey Khadjikurbanov' lawyer intends to appeal to the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a motion to stop the criminal proceedings against his client.

On June 13, in Helsinki, court sentenced Mikael Storsjo, the editor-in-chief of the website "Kavkaz-Centre", prohibited in Russian, who was found guilty of organizing illegal transportation of Chechen migrants to Finland, to four months of conditional sentence.

Today, Budyonnovsk hosted mourning events to mark the 17th anniversary of the attack on the city and capture of the city hospital by grouping of Shamil Basaev.

At least 164 persons fall victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in May 2012. Of these, 50 persons were killed and 114 wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

Khizri Aldamov, emissary of self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI) in Georgia and head of Chechen diaspora in that country returned home and had a meeting with Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. During his meeting with Head of Chechnya broadcasted by local TV channel Khizri Aldamov declared that he had been "absolutely wrong" criticizing the present Chechen authorities.

According to the administration of the Chechen capital, about 100,000 persons and people took part in the events to celebrate the Day of Russia, held on June 12 in Grozny. However, many city residents claim compulsory participation in the festivities.

Film Festival "Kinotavr" in Sochi; the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Southern Caucasus and aggravation in Karabakh conflict zone; detention of high-ranking officials in Kabardino-Balkaria on suspicion of fraud; next round of Geneva Debates; mass fight of soccer fans with natives of Northern Caucasus in Moscow, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of June 4-10, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Till present, the military engineer units cleared the Russian Defence Ministry in Chechnya, about 300 hectares of farmland, according to the military commandant's office of the republic.