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June 02, 2012 17:00

• Civilian wounded on Nagorno-Karabakh-Azerbaijani border

  On June 1, in Nagorno-Karabakh, Vachik Melkumyan, a villager of Nerkin, Tavush Region, who worked on his land plot, was wounded by fire from the Azerbaijani party, said the press service of the Armenian police.

June 02, 2012 15:00

• Novocherkassk hosts events in memory of workers executed 50 years ago

  On June 1 and 2, the Rostov Region holds actions to commemorate the tragedy of 1962 in the city of Novocherkassk, where a mass shooting of the workers who went out for a strike took place.

June 02, 2012 14:00

• Street vendors hold protest in Zugdidi

  On June 1, in the Georgian city of Zugdidi, policemen demanded from street vendors to abandon the territory of the Central City Marketplace, after which local entrepreneurs held a spontaneous protest action.

June 02, 2012 13:00

• Abkhazia accuses Georgian secret services of killing three persons in Gali

  As stated today by the State Security Service (SSS) of Abkhazia, the murder on May 28 in the city of Gali of two officers of the local interior division – Leonid Kvitsiniya and Davy Buava – and a local resident Gultazi Kolbaya was committed by the members of a sabotage and intelligence group, sent from Georgia under the order of the Georgian special services.

June 02, 2012 12:00

• Makhachkala opens beach "Ostrovok" for women and children

  On June 1, the official opening of the beach named "Ostrovok" (Small Island) was held in the Reduktorny Township, located in the southern outskirt of Makhachkala.

June 01, 2012 23:00

• Woman from Kabardino-Balkaria asserts that her husband, found dead in "Gardens of Nalchik", had been kidnapped by unidentified persons

  Zalina Khekilaeva from Nalchik has addressed her applications to the Investigatory Department for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the Prosecutor's Office of the KBR, B. M. Zumakulov, Ombudsman in the KBR, and to the Human Rights Centre of the KBR, describing the circumstances of disappearance of her husband Albert Karmov, whose body was found in the "Gardens of Nalchik".

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June 01, 2012 22:00

• Advocates of editor-in-chief of "Nastoyascheye Vremya" submit supervisory complaint to Supreme Court of Dagestan

  Today, the defence of Milrad Fatullaev, the editor-in-chief of the weekly "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time), have filed a supervisory complaint to the Supreme Court of Dagestan against the decision of the Kirov District Court of Makhachkala, which had upheld the decision of the first instance that found the journalist guilty of a failure to prevent slander in relation to the head of the republic.

June 01, 2012 21:00

• Sochi residents hold night watch to prevent construction of HPP

  The township Kudepsta (a part of the city of Sochi) sees a continued confrontation of local residents with the developer of the heat-and-power plant (HPP). At about 9:00 p.m., people decided to go home; however, they are ready to resume protests on the first call of those on duty, who stay for the night in tents, against the arrival of heavy machinery to the site.

June 01, 2012 20:00

• Dagestan: parties' debates held at the trial on policemen's beating a teen

  Today, the Shamil District Court of Dagestan has held the debates on the parties at the repeated trial on the case of beating a 14-year-old boy in the police building. The sentence will be imposed on June 5.

June 01, 2012 19:00

• "Mothers' Alert" activists rally in Grozny

  In Grozny, women-activists of the organization named "Mothers' Alert", whose children had gone missing, have held a rally. It took place in the Journalists' Mini-Park – in front of the main entrance to the building of the Government of the Chechen Republic.

June 01, 2012 17:00

• Two schools attacked in Dagestan

  At night on June 1, in the Tsuntin District of Dagestan, unidentified persons attacked two schools, in which power agents had been temporarily stationed. One person was killed.

June 01, 2012 11:00

• Ex-Chief of Untsukul District Department of Interior Affairs killed in Dagestan

  In the evening of May, 1, ex-Chief of Untsukul District Department of Interior Affairs Magomed Abdulmalikov was killed near his house in Buinaksk, Dagestan.

June 01, 2012 10:00

• A canteen in Stavropol region was fined for infecting people with salmonellosis

  Lermontov city court of Stavropol region acknowledged Canteen “Déjà Vu" limited company where employees of “Tander” close corporation were infected with salmonellosis guilty of violation of sanitary and epidemiological standards.

June 01, 2012 09:00

• Speaker of Chechen Parliament spoke against limiting the term of office of Head of the region

  The term of office of Head of the region must not be limited to two terms as stipulated by model bill in draft, Head of the Parliament of Chechnya Dukuvakha Abdurahmanov declared.

June 01, 2012 08:00

• An action in support of clause 31 of the Constitution passed off in Astrakhan

  On May, 31, a traditional meeting of supporters of “Strategy-31” was held in Bratsky garden of Astrakhan. About 30 people all in all took part in it, the police did not impede holding the action.

June 01, 2012 07:00

• Residents of Volgograd region took part in an “anti-nickel” rally

  An “anti-nickel” rally Uriupinsk – Novokhopersk passed off in Volgograd and Voronezh regions and ended with a meeting in the city which continued a series of protest actions against development of a nickel deposit in Voronezh region neighbouring to Volgograd one.

May 31, 2012 23:50

• In Astrakhan, two officials suspected of falsifying USE results

  In Astrakhan, pre-investigatory check is carried out on suspicion of substitution of the test results and filling out forms on behalf of pupils during the Unified State Exam (USE) in biology. Two officials are suspected of misconduct, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

May 31, 2012 23:30

• In Rostov-on-Don, court fines City Duma deputy for fake education diploma

  The Magistrate Court of the Proletarsky District of Rostov-on-Don fined Valery Levin, the Deputy of the City Duma, for 70,000 roubles for presenting to the election commission prior the elections a fake certificate on higher education.

May 31, 2012 23:10

• Policeman arrested in case of road accident with death of cyclist near Astrakhan

  Today, the Narimanov District Court in the Astrakhan Region granted the motion of investigators to arrest a police officer, detained on charges of fatal car-bicycle road traffic accident.

May 31, 2012 23:00

• In Abkhazia, 37 returnees receive keys of apartments near Sukhumi

  In the village of Machara of the Gulripsh District of Abkhazia, 37 returnees obtained apartments in a five-storey building. Most of them returned from Turkey. The others are the Abkhazians, who returned from Syria and Adzharia, and the Abazins, who came back from Karachay-Cherkessia.