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The organizers of the contest of the Union of Journalists of Dagestan "Golden Eagle" wanted to award the prize in nomination "Debut of the Year" to the newspaper "Nastoyaschee Vremya" (Current Time); however, the ceremony was disrupted by the journalists who had been earlier dismissed from this newspaper.

Today, in the course of a tripartite TV bridge Baku-Moscow-Yerevan its participants have discussed the outcomes of the meeting of Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Serzh Sarkisyan and Ilham Aliev on June 6 in St-Petersburg, and also the ways of settling the Karabakh conflict.

The city of Karabulak in Ingushetia is under the regime of counterterrorist operation, a source in the Republic's operative headquarters has informed. According to the FSB (Federal Security Bureau), militants are hiding in Karabulak ready to commit a series of terror acts in Ingushetia.

Billionaire and senator from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov has sold huge stock packages in Russian Savings Bank ("Sberbank") and "Gazprom", and after selling out other assets, he will have practically no investments in Russia left. The businessman invests the obtained funds into foreign financial institutions.

A powerful explosive detonated in a highways in southeast of Chechnya, when trucks with Perm Territory OMON (Special Militia) fighters sent to Chechnya to take their service were moving along. There no casualties and victims, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya reports.

Alan Waddams, head of the representative office of the European Commission in Azerbaijan, has declared that the EU will render Azerbaijan every help in acceding the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the Dagestan NGO named "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights", has complained to the public prosecutor that inspectors refuse to check the data on whereabouts of kidnapped persons.

The European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg has passed a decision against the Republic of Armenia, having recognized illegality of Gagik Sarukhanyan's removal from elections.

The Investigatory Committee at the Ministry of Internal Affairs has stopped the criminal case opened in relation to journalist Manana Aslamazyan after the Constitutional court of the Russian Federation ruled on May 27 that the challenged legal provision was applied illegally and is non-constitutional.

On June 7, militiamen of the Moscow Region released 49 natives of Uzbekistan, who were violently detaining and forced to work by citizens of Azerbaijan.

The opening ceremony of the "Noah's Ark" First International Movie Festival to be held on June 13-19 in the capital of Chechnya will be visited by well-known American actors Mark Dacascos and Armand Assante.

The international economic forum under the motto "Abkhazia-2008. Investments, Prospects", organized by Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) of Abkhazia with the help of the Republic's Government, will take place on June 17-21 in the sea report of Pitsunda.

Azerbaijan and Armenia have decided to continue negotiations on settling the Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group, and later in June the co-chairs of the Group will visit the conflict region again.

On June 8, some 60 prisoners of women's colony in Tbilisi announced a hunger strike demanding revision of their verdicts.

Dmitri Oreshkin, a Russian political scientist, believes that the current presidents of Chechnya and Ingushetia are gainful for the Kremlin: Ramzan Kadyrov controls Chechnya, and Murat Zyazikov is loyal to the Russian leadership.