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A Sigma-4 aircraft crashed in the Urvan District of Kabardino-Balkaria. A pilot of a light aircraft was killed in the accident.

A leopard that escaped from its owner on the shore of the Caspian Sea was caught in Dagestan after the owner announced a reward and urged people not to come close to the predator.

In Khasavyurt, law enforcers entered a shootout with suspected militants. As a result, two persons were killed. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement agencies.

Lusine Djanyan and Alexei Knedlyakovsky, Krasnodar artists well known for their oppositional views, have applied for political asylum in Sweden, and the authorities of the country have accepted the spouses' application for consideration.

Today, the court ruling of May 24 has come into force, according to which the Russia's Ministry of Finance (MoF) has to pay 100,000 roubles to Klara and Valentin Donchi-Ool, a pensioners' family couple from Sochi, in compensation for moral harm suffered from a criminal case unlawfully opened against them. The amount awarded by the court is ten times smaller than the spouses had claimed in their lawsuit; however, they will not challenge the ruling.

A bus of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has flipped over in the Gekharkunik Region of Armenia. Four victims were hospitalized in Vardenis, and eight others were sent to Yerevan.

Despite the appeal of the Chechen Mufti and the activities of the special commission, food prices remain inflated at the end of the month of Ramadan. This was reported by residents of the Chechen Republic.

In Armenia, eight journalistic and NGOs have issued a statement dated to the second anniversary of the events in Bagramyan Avenue demanding from the authorities to punish the policemen guilty of using violence against journalists on June 23, 2015.

Organizers of the exhibition "Dagestan: Portrait of the Nation" offered residents of the republic, who had in their family archives photos from the 19th and early 20th centuries to take part in the art project. As a result, the organizers received 1500 works, of which they selected for the exhibition more than 300. Besides, the exposition presents works from leading museums of Russia, Georgia, and the United States.

On June 23, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) considered the appeal filed against the decision of the Baku District Court on detention of journalist Afghan Mukhtarly.

A Makhachkala court has ruled to place the lawyer Rustam Yunusov, suspected of an attempted fraud, into custody. He refused to plead guilty; and the advocate Musa Abdulkadirov, who is defending Yunusov's interests, promised to appeal against the ruling.

Investigators have charged Georgy Sveshnikov, a pupil of a school in Sochi, with stealing goods from a store. He signed recognizance not to leave. The suspected schoolboy pleads not guilty.

On June 23, Bairam Mamedov, an activist of the oppositional Azerbaijani "Nida" movement, went on a hunger strike in protest against his custody conditions at the colony.

Arthur Panov, who is accused of plotting a terror act in Rostov-on-Don, has told the court that the day before the date of his detention as indicated in his case files, he was captured in the street and taken away for questioning by people, who presented themselves as law enforcers. The application, submitted by Arthur Panov, with a request to conduct a check was delivered to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the appeal of Aidamir Basto, who was fined for taking part in the moleben (prayer) on the Day of the Adygs' Memory. Ruslan Gvashev, the Chairman of the Board of Elders of Circassians-Shapsugs, also fined for taking part in the moleben, is waiting for the decision on his appeal.

The ruling party "Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia" has deceived the Venice Commission by providing it with an irrelevant draft of the Georgian Constitution, oppositionists assert.

The head of the department of education in the Takhtamukay District of Adygea was dismissed for organizing the passing of the Unified State Examination (USE) at the facility, where her daughter was examined.

The organization "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) condemns the resumption of repressions in Azerbaijan, during which at least 15 bloggers, independent journalists and media workers have been detained recently, says the RWB's statement released on June 22, a copy of which is available at the "Caucasian Knot".

At the court session on the case of the Yerevan armed group, the judge has treated the refusal of the defendant Vahan Shirkhanyan to stand up as disrespect of the court. Despite his claim of his poor health condition as the reason, the judge removed him from the courtroom.

Today, officials of the OSCE mission have conducted monitoring at the troops contact line in the area of Karabakh conflict. No violations of ceasefire have been fixed, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) reports.