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The number of detainees at protest rallies held in Yerevan has reached 166, the Armenian police reports. Policemen have warned that they are ready to use special means against demonstrators for their non-obeying their demands.

Law enforcers have detained a 77-year-old resident of Georgia, who was grazing cattle near the border with South Ossetia.

On Friday, activists opposing the election of Serzh Sargsyan the Prime Minister of Armenia again blocked the streets in Yerevan. The police detained 37 demonstrators, including David Sanasaryan, the leader of the civil initiative "Reject Serzh".

In Yerevan, protests against the election of Serzh Sargsyan the Prime minister will not lead to a change in the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, believe political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Russia acts as a guarantor of the Nagorno-Karabakh's status, and protests in Yerevan are not of anti-Russian nature, Gevorg Mirzayan notes.

Investigators have unreasonably refused prosecuting a female resident of Chechnya, who had gone to join Syrian militants, but the prosecutor's office managed to cancel the refusal.

The police would not let oppositionists to approach the building of the Armenia's Govt, where a parliament session was held under Serzh Sargsyan's chairmanship. The protesters called on policemen to lay down their arms; drivers of passing by cars supported them with horns.

Azerbaijan will not benefit from using the political crisis in Armenia to aggravate the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, since that will lead to unity in the Armenian society and increase the Russian pressure on the parties to the conflict. That opinion was voiced by military experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

According to the Armenian police, organizers of the protests against Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan call on demonstrators to commit unlawful actions in order to provoke clashes with law enforcers.

According to Forbes, Dagestani natives Leonid Mikhelson and Suleiman Kerimov, as well as Vagit Alekperov and Gennady Timchenko, natives of Southern Caucasus, entered the top 20 of the richest Russian businessmen in Russia in 2018.

In Yerevan, several people attacked Tirair Muradyan, a journalist of the "Union of Informed Citizens", when he photographed them. Tirair Muradyan was hospitalized with bruises.

The main goal of the exhibition "Towers of the Caucasus: Dagestan and Ingushetia", opened in Makhachkala, is to attract the attention of the younger generation to the preservation of those towers, noted Zumrud Suleimanova, the director of the museum "Dagestani Aul".

A new tourist map of Nagorno-Karabakh takes into account all the tourist routes and sights of the unrecognized republic. The map will be provided free of charge to tourists in Stepanakert and Shushi, as well as in all historical and cultural sites, reported the Ministry for Culture, Youth Affairs and Tourism.

In the evening on Wednesday, an opposition rally in Yerevan turned into a march to the presidential residence. Activists offered policemen a cash reward for joining the demonstrators.

The organizers of protests against Serzh Sargsyan have chosen a strategy of nonviolent struggle, taking into account the events of March 2008, when provocations led to casualties, and the lessons of the "Sasna Tsrer" armed revolt in 2016.

The authorities of the Agjabadi District of Azerbaijan have reported a wounded local resident after the shelling delivered by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). However, the NKR's Army has denied its involvement in the shelling and stated that it "strictly follows the cease-fire regime."

Out of 84 detained opposition protesters, 30 have been released after the protocols were drawn up against them. Other 54 people are suspected of criminal offenses, the police report.

In the course of the monitoring, OSCE observers did not registered any violations of the ceasefire regime at the contact line, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

In France and Greece, law enforcers have detained 38 citizens of Georgia and Armenia, suspected of apartment thefts, including Kakha Abuashvili, also known as rapper Kabu, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

An inquiry has been launched into the circumstances of the death of Ruslan Manukyan, who perished on April 17 in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

Azerbaijan held the ceremony of inauguration of President Ilham Aliev, who took the post for the fourth time in a row.