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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.

A large-scale special operation against participants of armed underground which started on May, 20, in Vedeno district of Chechnya has not yielded any results yet, a source in the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reports.

Acquittal in the criminal case on slandering Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, passed by court in Moscow; rallies and hunger strike of Dagestani residents who demand to open traffic in the tunnel connecting the centre of the republic with several mountainous districts; verdict of the Supreme Court of South Ossetia on the initiative of the new term of Eduard Kokoity's office; protest rallies in Baku, – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 13-19, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On June 19 in the village of Znamenskoye, Nadterechny District of Chechnya, a policeman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) accidentally shot and killed a local resident, 21-year-old man.

Close friends and acquaintances of Yuri Budanov, an ex-Colonel of the Russian Army Colonel, will be questioned in the investigation of his murder, said a source from law enforcement bodies.

Journalists from Buryatia Tatiana Stetsura and Nadezhda Nizovkina, accused of inciting hatred to law enforcers in their article about deportation of Caucasian nations, were detained for participating in an unsanctioned rally. While at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the city of Chita, the women went on hunger strike.

On June 15, the city of Argun, the third-largest city of Chechnya saw an opening of two new settlements for the residents of the city downtown, whose houses were demolished this winter in the course of the broad-scale reconstruction of the city. The keys to their new houses were solemnly handed over to 62 families.

According to eyewitnesses, on June 10 in Chechnya, on a road in the Kurchaloy District, unidentified armed persons kidnapped Aslambek Shataev, 30, a resident of Kurchaloy. Later, his relatives managed to find him in one of police stations. Now the man is at home, but, according to his relatives, he was severely beaten.

During May this year, at least 97 persons were lost and wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including 54 casualties and 43 injured ones. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and other information from open sources.

Sergey Arakcheev, a former MIA officer, who was convicted in 2007 to 15 years of imprisonment for murdering Chechen residents, has recorded a video appeal to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, where he states his innocence, and asks the Premier to get into the circumstances of his case.

The top managers of the Football Club (FC) "Terek" from Grozny FC Terek believe that head coach Ruud Gullit failed to cope with his duties.

Negotiations in Transcaucasia on Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia's conflicts with South Ossetia and Abkhazia; resonant murder of religious leaders in Makhachkala, Dagestani capital; and assassination in broad daylight in Moscow of Yuri Budanov, "an enemy of the Chechen nation", – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 6-12, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the city of Khimki near Moscow the funeral took place of the former colonel Yuri Budanov, who was shot dead in Moscow on June 10. The ceremony passed without incident.