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A resident of Dagestan has been convicted for inciting hatred towards Kalmyks in the context of the case of Said Osmanov, who was found guilty in Elista of desecrating the statue of Buddha.

The adoption of the bill now being considered by the State Duma poses a threat of extinction to languages of Russia's small nations, including Chechens, the teachers and scientists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma MP, has recalled his signature from the list of authors of the bill.

Magomed Mutsolgov, an Ingush rights defender and a blogger of the "Caucasian Knot", said that the law enforcers in masks, who searched his house and the office of his human rights organization "Mashr", behaved correctly.

During the last 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the ceasefire regime for 86 times on the troops contact line by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Levon Sargsyan, a brother of the former president of Armenia, while being Armenia's ambassador at large, failed to declare his large-scale bank deposits, the State Revenue Committee of Armenia has stated.

The statement of Arsen Kanokov, the Senator (member of the Russia's Federation Council) from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), against the law on mother tongues (native or national languages) became a sort of a challenge to other members of North-Caucasian elites, experts said.

Law enforcers have broken into the house of Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr", a blogger of the "Caucasian Knot".

A preliminary hearing of the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", will be held behind closed doors. Titiev complained about informational isolation at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) – he fails to receive all the letters addressed to him; and they do not allow him to have a wireless or a TV set in his cell.

In the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, a fifteen-year-old teenager, driving an off-road Mercedes car, knocked down two pedestrians to death, another person was hospitalized.

Azerbaijan neglects its obligations to the Council of Europe (CoE), political persecutions and imprisonments are widespread in the country. This is said in the statement signed by 21 PACE MPs.

A tractor driver got buried under sand and stones in a quarry in Chiatura District of Georgia; he died on the spot, the police have reported.

A video about how residents of the Khasavyurt village of Andiyskoye forced law enforcers to release their detained fellow villager caused a resonance in the network. Commentators supported the actions of the people who protested against the detention without presenting documents.

Two officers of the Georgian Border Police, detained at the Dagestan section of the Russian border, have been released, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The film "Deep Rivers" by Vladimir Bitokov, a film director from Nalchik, will be screened in the programme "To the East of the West" at the festival that opens in Karlovy Vary today.

One of the five people injured in the explosion at a car fuelling station in the Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya was hospitalized, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has reported.

Residents of Kuban need no high-speed railway (HSR) from Chechnya to Krasnodar; and it is unacceptable to cover the expenses for its construction from the budget against the background of plans on the retirement age growth. This opinion was voiced by residents of the Krasnodar Territory interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In France, the criminal case against Suleiman Kerimov, a Senator from Dagestan, accused of violating the procedures to purchase real estate objects, is not closed, but he is granted the status of a witness, the Prosecutor's Office reports.

The Tbilisi City Court has found Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, guilty of beating up the MP Valery Gelashvili in 2005, and sentenced him in absentia to six years in prison.

Women-activists of the Democratic Coalition have held a flash mob against raising the retirement age; they appeared in the street without clothes with posters "They've robbed us to panties!"

Servicemen of Russian military bases in Abkhazia and Armenia were provided with new field military uniforms to protect them from thermal shocks; soldiers call new clothes "tropikanka".