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Aage Borchgrevinkg, an adviser of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, was monitoring the local government elections in the Samtskhe-Dzhavakheti region of Georgia. According to his story, plenty of violations were registered at polling stations.

Today in Armenia, the police have again hampered young members of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) to hold their sit-in protest action by not admitting them to the Freedom Square.

In the village of Gubden in the Karabudahkentsky district of Dagestan, early in this morning the forestry employee's son was shot. And the forester himself was also killed by unknown persons a year ago. "The young man was shot by unidentified people near his house. Last year, the insurgents killed his father", a press service representative of the Dagestan interior ministry told a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" about the incident in the village of Gubden.

Russia's FSB border service administration in Republic of Abkhazia has called provocative the statements made by the Georgian side on involvement of Russian military in the incident, which killed one officer of Abkhaz customs and injured another two.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov denies his involvement in abductions and murder occurring in the republic and declares that "the only enemies he recognizes and intends to 'annihilate' are the enemies of Islam, to whom he refers the Wahhabi insurgents who are hiding in forests. Also, Kadyrov is convinced that Sharia is above the laws of the Russian Federation.

This night, a liquor store in Khasavyurt (Dagestan) was taken under fire. The sales assistant got injured.

On 8 April, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) passed a judgment on the case "Mrs.Abdurashidova against Russia", having acknowledged that the Russian Federation was responsible for the numerous violations of the applicant's rights. This is the first suit gained in the ECHR by the resident of Dagestan", the Human Right Center "Memorial" informed today.

Today, in Georgia, the nongovernmental organization (NGO) named "The Human Rights Centre" held a press conference, where it has presented its post-election report "General violations and disputable actions detected by observers on May 30, 2010, in Svanetia and Kakhetia".

Kindergartens reduction in Georgia contributes to the spread of diseases among children and the preschool education degradation. This was the key note of the action organized by the Educators and Scientists Trade Union of Georgia.

Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya try to identify the young man, who was killed yesterday, on May 31, in the Oktiabrskiy District of Grozny and who, as power agents believe, was going to commit a self-suicidal act of terrorism. The information about liquidation of the failed suicide-bomber gives rise to doubts among local human rights activists.

The Monument to the people killed in the Beslan terrorist attack in 2004 was unveiled today in the downtown of Moscow. The monument was designed by the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli. His project was selected from more than ten anonymous proposals.

On May 28 in Vladikavkaz, law enforcers detained two residents of Ingushetia - Anzor Chaniev and Idris Yandiev. Their relatives are sure that the detention was illegal and state that at the militia the young men were exposed to violence, runs the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The Georgian side has blamed the Russian military for the incident in the Gali district of Abkhazia on the border with Georgia, where exchange of fire took place today.

An unidentified explosive device was triggered in one of the cafes in the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt, the GOVD (City Interior Division) has reported.