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A Chechen woman, who went to Syria to her husband, who had joined militants there, has been sentenced to eight years in prison. She will be sent to a colony, when her child turns 14, the prosecutor's office reports.

On June 26-27, the Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire regime for 118 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence has reported.

The creation of the new organization of the Armenian Diaspora "Association of Armenians in Russia" (AAR) was strongly influenced by the "velvet revolution" in Armenia, reported Arsen Alexanyan, a member of the initiative group. Members of the Armenian Diaspora believe the activities of the "Union of Armenians in Russia" (UAR), created in 2000, do not always meet the interests of Armenians living in Russia.

In Baku, US-made helicopters, cruise missiles, and other weapons demonstrated at a parade have confirmed statements about the superiority of the Azerbaijani army over the enemy and testify to the country's readiness for large-scale battles in the Karabakh conflict zone. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

On the United Nations' International Day in support of torture victims, rights defenders predicted an increase in the number of complaints from Northern Caucasus, although residents of the region are reluctant to report such crimes. The exclusions were the cases of law enforcers of the Ingush "E" Centre and employees of the Belorechenskaya and Elista colonies that reached the court.

The Ramzan Kadyrov's proposal to build the Transcaucasian High-Speed Railway (HSR) indicates his attempt to reach a new level of financial relations with Moscow. Earlier, the head of Chechnya did not claim to build at such a scale, The Bell reports.

During the trial in the case against agents of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE) at the Nalchik Garrison Military Court, witness Aza Gadieva said that she had defamed Magomed Aushev. After the defamation, Magomed Aushev was detained in the case of a car bombing and tortured.

The fan zones and the areas allocated for them in Southern of Russia failed to house all those who wanted to watch the Uruguay-Russia match. Fans also told us about traffic jams.

Investigators have stopped the case against the defendants accused of organizing mass unrests in July 2016, including against David Sanasaryan, the head of the State Control Service of Armenia.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has rejected the complaint against the judgement to keep Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under arrest until July 9. This is reported by the Telegram-channel of the HRC "Memorial".

On June 25, Ibragim Zakriev, who had been the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic and who is Ramzan Kadyrov's nephew, was appointed the Acting Mayor of Grozny. According to calculations of the "Russian Service of the BBC", a third of the major officials in Chechnya are Ramzan Kadyrov's relatives.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has ordered his ministers to consider the idea of Transcaucasian high-speed railway, offered by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Major-General Vachagan Kazaryan, who was the head of the guards of Serzh Sargsyan, the third President of Armenia, was detained on suspicion of illegal enrichment and concealment of incomes. At detention, a large sum of money was confiscated from him.

Representatives of the Nogai people have sent a proposal to the regional assembly of deputies to hold a referendum on the land issue in the Nogai District. According to the participants of the roundtable, the distant pastures are used not for the intended purpose.

Within the last 24 hours, the Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire on the frontline for 87 times, by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

The Egyptian national team has completed its performance at the FIFA World Cup-2018, by losing 1:2 to Saudi Arabia in Volgograd.

At the match in Volgograd, Egyptian fans actively supported their team, despite its unsuccessful performance at the FIFA World Cup-2018. The base in Grozny proved to be inconvenient for footballers; and the team's defeats can be related thereto, the Egyptian fans, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

The outcome of considering the defence's complaints on the extension of Oyub Titiev's arrest, and about the refusal to initiate a case on the drugs planted on him, is known in advance, the advocate and colleagues of the rights defender have stated. In their opinion, the prosecutor did not even find it necessary to get ready for the trial; while the court ignored the defence's convincing arguments.

In his new song recorded together with the "Leningrad" group, Semyon Slepakov has apologized to the Russian national football team for the song about its failure with Ramzan Kadyrov as the head coach. The new song was performed 11 days after the call of the head of Chechnya to the singer to record a new track.

Shamil Omargadjiev, a native of Dagestan, has been sentenced to 2.5 years of freedom deprivation for illegal arms possession and for the fact that, knowing about the preparation of a terror act in the Kazan Cathedral, he failed to inform the police about it.