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Medallist Ruzanna Tuko has become a participant in the show of the "Spas" Orthodox TV Channel. Arkady Mamontov, a well-known journalist, has suggested the school-leaver to become "the youngest State Duma MP."

Movsum Samedov, the leader of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan, is subjected to pressure in a penal colony. This was stated by advocate Yalchin Imanov. He believes provocations threatening his client's health and life can occur.

In Kuban, a school-leaver of the ninth form was not given his certificate at a school-leaving party because of his debts for school meals in the amount of 600 roubles. He got the document on the day after the solemn ceremony, his mother reported.

At night of July 1, in Baku, the "Haji Javad" mosque was destroyed in the "Sovetskaya" area. There, old buildings are massively demolished for the purpose of urban improvement and construction of new roads. Earlier, believers were promised that the mosque would not be demolished until another mosque was built in another place.

The judge of the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala, whose car was burned down in Kerimov Street at night on June 30, had participated in many high-profile trials, namely: the case of Badrudin Musaev, a son of Makhachkala Mayor; the arrest of Imam Magomednabi Magomedov; the assassination case of Gasanguseinov brothers, and trials on complicity to militants.

After meeting the prosecutor, Zhanna Mazikhova, Director General and owner of the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "Zvezda Elbrusa", and Arthur Baidaev, a former director general of the company, who are on a dry hunger strike in Nalchik, agreed to switchover to bread and water.

The antiterrorist video, screened in central Krasnodar, was commented in social networks for the video of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia.

The family from the village of Stalskoe, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, which has lost a four-year-old boy, has complained to the "Roszdravnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare) about doctors' actions. The Dagestani Ministry of Public Health recognized doctors' mistake but restricted itself with a reprimand, the "Chernovik" weekly reports.

At the election of the rector of the North-Caucasian Mining and Metallurgical Institute, over half of the ballot papers were spoiled. The staff of the higher school demands from the Ministry of Education of North Ossetia to approve the candidates nominated by the structural units of the institute, but not admitted to the election.

The court has sentenced Emmin Shakhgiriev, a resident of Chechnya, to an administrative fine for posting songs of the Chechen poet and singer Timur Mutsuraev on the Internet. The songs are on the list of extremist materials.

In the village of Ekazhevo, after flooding, 32 private houses were flooded; one person was injured, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports. According to local authorities, other buildings and communications were also damaged. The Ingush government has promised to help the owners whose houses suffered significant damage.

At the fourth session on the case of the oppositional leader Zhirayr Sefilyan, he and three other defendants were removed from the courtroom for contempt of the court. Then, their advocates also left the courtroom. The judge intends to bring advocates to disciplinary responsibility.

Investigators have appointed a medical examination of the health status of Gezyal Bairamly, the deputy chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who had complained of traumas at received at detention. However, she refused to undergo the examination, considering it belated, said her advocate.

Afghan Mukhtarly's medical examination, conducted today with the aim to find traces of beatings, which he announced a month ago, is a formality connected with the consideration of the journalist's case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), said his advocate.

To find the reasons for the mass death of dolphins in the Black Sea, numerous analyzes are needed, as well as operative autopsy of animals' bodies and studies of their fodder, said the ecologists and zoologists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". According to their version, there is no precise number of the dead dolphins.

After collecting fines, the South-Ossetian authorities handed the three persons detained for violating the border, to Georgia, the South-Ossetian State Security Committee (SSC) reports.

The resignation of Pedro Agramunt, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is predefined and will be a good precedent for fighting corruption, Azerbaijani non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have stated.

Alexander Lapshin, a blogger, has announced, at the session of the Baku Court on Grave Crimes, the tourist nature of his trips to Nagorno-Karabakh, and refused to admit his guilt.

The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has launched an inquiry into the arson of a foreign-made car in Makhachkala. The car belonged to Patimat Makhatilova, a Federal Judge of the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, local law enforcement sources have reported.

Russia will do everything possible to protect Victor Ageyev, who was detained in Ukraine, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President. Sergey Krivenko, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), is sure that Russia will soon try to exchange Ageyev for the captured Ukrainian soldiers.