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The names of more than one hundred disappeared mountain villages are immortalized in a stone monument erected in the village of Nizhnee Gakvari, Tsumadin District, on July 18. The initiators of erecting the monument believe that these villages should be restored.

A minor, who witnessed the murder of two schoolboys, is suspected of giving false testimony, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

Relatives know nothing about what the six detained residents of the village of Borozdinovskaya are accused of; and are afraid to comment on what happened, fearing "additional problems," said one of the villagers.

At the today's hearing at the Shali City Court in the Oyub Titiev's case, the Court has questioned six policemen witnesses, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports, which has arranged text broadcast of the court hearing on its Telegram channel.

Soldiers were injured while clearing the bombs of World War II in the Gorodische District of the Volgograd Region.

Today, Vladimir Vasiliev, the acting leader of Dagestan, has announced that an anti-corruption campaign among officials in the republic will be continued.

Political prisoner Emir-Usein Kuku, who is kept at the Rostov-on-Don SIZO (pre-trial prison) on the charge of involvement in the terrorist organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir", banned in Russia, has stopped his hunger strike and began the process of restoration.

Maxim Yakovlev, a shareholder of the Kirov Factory, kidnapped a month ago in Abkhazia, has delivered a note to his wife, stating that kidnappers demand a ransom of 200 million roubles for his release, the Abkhazian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has sated today.

Russia has no right to influence the Georgia's decision to become a member of the NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO's Secretary General, said on July 18 in response to the Russian president's promise of a tough reaction. The decision to join NATO is no threat to any other country, Mamuka Bakhtadze, the Georgia's Prime Minister, has assured.

Today, the state prosecutor has persuaded the Shali City Court to start trying Oyub Titiev in the absence of Ilya Novikov, one of the defenders.

In Grozny, the court has found a local resident guilty of illegal acquisition, storage and carrying of ammunition and sentenced him to 1.5 years of imprisonment.

During the presidential election in Azerbaijan, there were cases when public sector employees had been forced to participate in actions of the pre-election campaign. Violations committed on the day of voting on April 11 require an investigation, states the final report prepared by the election observation mission (EOM) of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

Amir Abumuslimov, a student from Dagestan, on suspicion of beating whom, an MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter was detained, has recovered from coma. However, the young man is still in grave condition, his father reported.

The decision pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in favour of relatives of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, murdered in 2006, confirms that the Russian authorities did not conduct a full effective investigation into the crime, announced the human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI).

Since July 10, relatives of a 24-year-old resident of the Novye Atagi village are not aware of his whereabouts. Magomed-Emin Arsamirzaev was detained without explanations, and no official charges were filed against him, a relative of the disappeared man reported.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) of Tbilisi has upheld the verdict to the third Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in the case of abuse of authority in pardoning convicts for the murder of Sandro Girgvliani.

Aslan Yandiev, a native of Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, suspected of involvement in a series of resonant terror acts, has been extradited to Moscow from Slovakia, the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) reported on July 18.

According to new analysis of video records made at polling stations during the Russian presidential election on March 18, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Chechnya occurred among the regions with the highest overstating of voter turnout, says the report of 'Golos' movement.

The exercises that Russian servicemen conducted in the Armenian village of Panik scared the locals. The deputy commander of the Russian military base in Gyumri confessed to the mistake made and promised to punish the perpetrators.

Yerevan hosted presentation of an assistance programme to settlers from Syria "Increasing resilience of Syrian Armenians and local residents to challenges". A three-year programme is designed to integrate settlers from Syria into the Armenian society and provide them with the conditions for a decent life, said Mkhitar Airapetyan, the Armenian Diaspora Minister.