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After a meeting with officials of the Krasnodar Territory, five residents of the Imereti Lowland of Sochi stopped their hunger strike.

At the court session on June 8 on the case about drug contraband and use by Usman Garisov, a resident of Dagestan, who is kept, since February 10, at the investigatory insulator in Azerbaijan, policemen gave contradictory evidences. This was stated by Umar Garisov, Usman's brother, a resident of Karanaiaul village of the Kayakent District of Dagestan; he believes that the consideration of the case was deliberately protracted and is preparing a protest action.

On Thursday, June 10, Evgenia Khasis, a figurant in the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, refused to take prison food in protest against keeping in the same insulator with one of militants' leaders of Northern Caucasus Ali Taziev, also known as Magas.

The Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has completed investigating the murder of the Hero of Russia and former State Duma Deputy Ruslan Yamadaev and attempt on Sergey Kizyun.

Khizri Shikhsaidov, Deputy of the Russian State Duma from Dagestan, does not support the idea of the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky who offered to release young men from military service for one million roubles. The Dagestan MP was supported by his colleagues who believe that commercialization of conscription will make bribes still higher.

In Chechnya, in the city of Gudermes, leaflets appeared on posts near the city bus station and in the vicinity of the marketplace calling Chechen girls to wear headscarves, eyewitnesses report.

Today at a press conference, relatives of Egle Kusaite, a native of Klaipeda, said that her confession about intention to commit a terror act in Chechnya was "drawn out" of the girl by means of psychological and physical violence.

Movlat Tsechoev, uncle of brothers Adam and Beslan Tsechoev, who were detained on June 8 in Sagopshi village (Ingushetia), is sure of their non-involvement in the terror act in Sagopshi. Movlat told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the events that preceded detention and about a spontaneous rally in front of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Malgobek.

The Tbilisi City Court has satisfied the petition of the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia and sentenced in absentia Malkhaz Gulashvili, President of the media holding "Georgian Times" and leader of the Georgian public organization "National Orthodox Movement", and his son David Gulashvili to two months of pre-trial custody.

From early June, unidentified persons are driving in central Grozny in cars with tinted glasses and shoot from paintball rifles (the so-called "markers") at the girls who go along the street with uncovered heads. This is reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Eight out of fifteen detained participants of the protest action (dispersed by the militia) with demand to clear out the fate of Ahmednabi Nazhmutdinov, a resident of Cherniayevka village, Kizlyar District, who disappeared on May 30, have been set free.

Residents of the capital of North Ossetia continue holding pickets with a demand to close the "Electrozink" factory. Another protest action held on June 9 had only nine participants, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

During 22 years of presence in Northern Caucasus, the Internal Troops (IT) of the MIA (MIA) lost 2984 persons as casualties and 9000 more as wounded soldiers. This was stated by Army General Nikolai Rogozhkin, IT Commander-in-Chief, when he spoke to the Operative-Purpose Independent Division.