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The journalist Sevinj Vagifgyzy, questioned within the criminal case opened against her colleague Afghan Mukhtarly, was forced to sign a non-disclosure obligation, her advocate reports. Members of the oppositional "Musavat" Party have also been summoned for questioning. The party leader has treated the Mukhtarly's case as politically motivated.

Alexei Venediktov, the editor-in-chief of the "Echo Moskvy", has announced his readiness to come to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to be questioned in connection with his appeal about threats from Chechnya against journalists of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta".

The Central District Court of Sochi has sentenced Alexei Bychkov and Vitaly Buchenkov to administrative arrest for participation in an anticorruption rally. It took ten minutes from the Court to pronounce the decision to arrest both activists, and no people were allowed to attend the court hearing.

Two young people from Chechnya have reported about torture and beatings to which they were subjected in the republic because of their homosexual orientation. One of them reported that he was tortured with electric current, and the second man managed to escape from the house, where his relatives planned to kill him.

Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, who was convicted for the murder of Anna Politkovskaya and died in a Vologda colony, was buried into the cemetery of Achkhoy-Martan village, his relatives have reported. In Achkhoy-Martan, they do not believe that Gaitukaev was the organizer of Politkovskaya's murder, said a local woman.

In Baku, the court has found journalist Fikret Faramazoglu guilty of extortion. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment with the prohibition to be engaged in journalistic activities for two years after his release. He himself claimed being tortured after his arrest. His defence intends to appeal against the verdict.

Nurmagomed Gazimagomedov has claimed that he was detained in the Makhachkala Park named after the 50th anniversary of October, where he planned to read out his appeal to the Russian President.

Movsum Samedov has been transferred to the Gobustan closed prison for three years, said his advocate Yalchin Imanov.

In the Dagestani village of Chervlyonnye Buruny, law enforcers detained Rashid Abdurakhmanov, and his whereabouts is unknown. This was reported by his family members. According to them, Rashid Abdurakhmanov disappeared on the eve of the Nogai People's Congress.

Family members of Ramazan Djalaldinov, who complained against actions of Chechen officials, asked the Russian President to help him return home.

The Azerbaijani State Border Service has rejected the defence's request to study the details of Afghan Mukhtarly's detention on the Georgian border. According to the defence, this indicates the authorities' unwillingness to consider the journalist's version of his kidnapping in Tbilisi.

Officials from the Investigating Department for Ingushetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) have stated that they are not aware of an investigation into an assassination attempt on two relatives of suspected militant Magomed Bekbuzarov. The condition and whereabouts of the wounded men are also unknown.

Today, the Nogai People's Congress has been opened in the village of Terekli-Mekteb. It has gathered about 6000 delegates from different regions of the Russian Federation. Participants of the Congress believe that the federal centre can help to solve the land conflict in the Nogai District of Dagestan.

On June 13, at the trial in the Rizvan Ibragimov's case, the court questioned an investigator in charge for the case against the publicist accused of extremism. The witness could not clarify the essence of the charge.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan has rejected the allegations that journalist Afghan Mukhtarly was detained in Tbilisi with involvement of the Georgian law enforcers. According to the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office, the journalist was detained at the border of the countries.

Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, who died in a penal colony in the Vologda Region and who was sentenced in the case of the Anna Politkovskaya's murder, filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about violations committed during the trial in his case.

The trial in the case against Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the Armenian movement "100th anniversary without regime", and six other defendants has been started in a tense situation.

For almost six and a half years, Volgograd saw eight collapses of apartment houses. Three of them were results of gas explosions. In total, as a result of these accidents, since January 2011, 12 persons were killed and 26 others were injured.

By a court decision, Alexander Safronov, one of the participants in the action held by supporters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was detained in the city of Yeisk, was arrested for 10 days.

The proposal of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov to hold an explanatory conversation with opponents of renaming the "Terek" FC to the "Akhmat" FC sounds like a threat. This opinion was expressed by Igor Kalyapin. At present, there will be most likely no critics to the renaming of the "Terek" FC, as well as no gays, in the republic, Alexander Cherkasov believes.