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Levon Sargsyan, a brother of the former President of Armenia, is accused in the case of illegal enrichment and is wanted. The charges are also brought against a son and a daughter of Levon Sargsyan, investigators report today.

In Gelendzhik, local residents believe that the presence of the national football teams of Iceland and Sweden that chose the city to be their training base had produced a negative impact on the tourist season and prevented tourists from coming.

On July 1-7, the Azerbaijani armed forces fired about 1500 shots and thus violated the truce in the conflict zone, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports today.

Today, Tanka Ibragimov, the former Minister for Public Health of Dagestan, who resigned in April 2018, has been detained in his Makhachkala house on suspicion of embezzlement of funds from the budget, reports a source from the local law enforcement bodies.

Four tourists, who on July 5 got stuck in the Gili-Su Gorge in the Karachay District because of bad weather, were taken to the village of Khurzuk.

Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Sadygov was detained 1.5 months after his release. At the moment, his relatives are not aware of his whereabouts.

Pavel Grib, a Ukrainian citizen, accused of terrorism, is held in Rostov SIZO (pre-trial prison) without violations; and he has no complaints about his custody conditions, the regional Ombudsperson stated on July 6.

On the central beach of the city Gelendzhik, a sewage discharge occurred; for about an hour, the sewage was discharged into the sea; it was accompanied by an unpleasant smell, after which bathing was banned, tourists have reported. However, the Gelendzhik administration explained that the bathing ban was introduced because of a sharp drop in water temperature.

David Ambartsumyan, the Mayor of the city of Masis, and his brother Gor Ambartsumyan were arrested on June 6 within the case of an attack on protesters in Yerevan, the Armenian Investigating Committee has stated.

Today, the situation at the "Verkhni Lars" border checkpoint has worsened; the congestion of cars has increased, a source from the North-Ossetia Border Department and drivers have reported. According to Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), the waiting time is about five hours. In their turn, drivers assert that they have to wait for 9 hours or more.

Law enforcers have found in the apartment of Narek Sargsyan, a nephew of the third president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, drugs and weapons. The country's National Security Service (NSS) has declared him wanted.

In the Adler District of Sochi, the streets were flooded by water after the rain. Heavy rains will also fall on July 7, when a quarterfinal match of the FIFA World Cup between Russia and Croatia is to be held in Sochi.

Yunis Safarov, who attacked Elmar Veliev, the head of the Azerbaijani city of Ganja, planned to assassinate a number of well-known government officials to sow panic and seize power, the Azerbaijani power agencies report today.

Today, defenders of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, have filed a complaint against the decision pronounced by the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, which refused to transfer the trial to another region.

A resident of the Georgian village of Arkhisi has been detained by law enforcers near the border with South Ossetia in the vicinity of the Zemo Artsevi village, the "1tv.ge" reports today with reference to local residents.

Today, on the territory of a vegetable storage base in Rostov-on-Don, two persons have been injured in an explosion of a grenade, and not a gas cylinder, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) clarifies.

Mindiya Gogochuri, a husband of a Georgian President's daughter, got four gunshot wounds. He underwent surgery and was placed to a resuscitation ward.

The former Vice Prime Minister of Dagestan has been placed to the Lefortovo SIZO (pre-trial prison), sources from the law enforcement bodies report today.

During the past day, the Armenian armed forces 102 times violated the ceasefire in the conflict zone, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports today.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has given hope to participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, who seek for compensation, earlier recognized illegal by the court in Kabardino-Balkaria. 120 people filed claims to the Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).