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Today, in Yerevan, employees of the government building were evacuated because of an explosion threat in the Ministry of Public Health. The man who threatened to blow up the Ministry has been established, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Today, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported that the owners of the kindergarten in Astrakhan, who were arrested after a video was posted with roped children, have been charged. Investigators have a new video depicting cruel treatment of children in the kindergarten, a source has stated.

The waiting time for passage through the checkpoint on the Georgian Military Road has dropped to six hours, the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has informed today. Tourists complained of long waiting time in the neutral strip.

During the last 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the ceasefire on the frontline for 91 times, by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

The explosive devices, found in Takho-Godi Street and near the dwelling settlement of Tarki in Makhachkala, have been rendered harmless and transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), a source from the Dagestani Branch of "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) has stated.

Ivan Shukshin, a programmer from the city of Gelendjik, has created a computer programme that tracks the updates to the list of extremists and terrorists, posted on the website of the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service).

The activists' request to hold a rally in Gelendzhik, dedicated to the environmental problems of the city, was denied. Instead, officials offered them to hold a protest action in the village of Kabardinka. The organizers disagreed and insist on holding a rally within the city. They see the real reason for the refusal in the fact that bureaucrats are unwilling to publicize the problems with the pollution of beaches on the Black Sea.

Maxim Martynov, the defendant in the case of preparing a terror act in the Novocherkassk shopping centre, had initially planned, together with his accomplice, to blow up a synagogue, but later decided to change the object of the terror act, the prosecutor asserts.

Supporters of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, accused within the case of dispersal of protest in 2008, gathered in front of the residence of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and asked him to protect judges from pressure.

The detection of a hideout with weapons and ammunition, reported by Chechen law enforcers on August 11, became the sixth one in 2018 in this region.

Today, at a trial at the North-Caucasian District Military Court, Maxim Martynov, a defendant in the case of preparing a terror act in the shopping centre of Novocherkassk, has completely admitted his guilt.

The drop of oil prices has forced Azerbaijan to look for alternative sources of filling in the budget; and the authorities have "staked on cotton," despite the threat to people's health, the Meydan TV has reported today after examining the situation with mass workers' poisonings in cotton fields.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were fired from large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

Today, in Yerevan, protesters have achieved cancellation of the press conference of Robert Kocharyan, after which they marched to the buildings of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia. They demanded to dismiss the judge, who had freed the former president of Armenia.

Since September 2014, residents of the Dagestani settlement of Vremenny are seeking compensations from the authorities for their housing destroyed during a special operation. Lawyers of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" have appealed against the judgement of the court, which in July this year refused to recognize the authorities' inaction.

Today, the court has sentenced Abdulmalik Albagachiev, a resident of Ingushetia, to nine years in colony, having found him to be a participant in the conflict in Syria. His relatives intend to appeal against the verdict.

In Yerevan, protesters have come to the building, where the former president of Armenia's press conference is scheduled, and demanded to cancel the decision to release Robert Kocharyan from custody.

The signing of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea in general meets Azerbaijani interests. However, the document has failed to remove all the sea contradictions, the Azerbaijani experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The arrest in Istanbul of Seda Dudurkaeva, a daughter of the former head of the Chechen Branch of the Federal Migration Service (FMS), was caused by a suspicion of using a false passport, and not by links with Syrian militants, her advocate has explained.

The court of the Dubai Emirate has ordered the "FlyDubai" Airline to pay about 217,000 US dollars as compensation to children of the victims of the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don.