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The authorities refused to deprive Manvel Grigoryan, an Armenian MP, of the "Artsakh Hero" title, which was demanded by activists of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), and promised to consider the issue after the court judgement is passed. The MP's advocates assert that Manvel Grigoryan, detained on suspicion of illegal arms trafficking, is completely innocent.

The World Refugee Day is marked at the UN's initiative every year on June 20. This date is intended to remind of the problems of people who have left their country or their region inside the country (temporarily displaced persons) to escape from danger, as well as repatriates and stateless persons, the UN's website reports.

Rostov-on-Don court has passed a three-day administrative arrest to Gaspar Avakyan, a video blogger, founding him guilty of disobeying policemen. Avakyan claims that he was detained at the request of a law official, whom he exposed of violating traffic rules.

The World Cup football match Saudi Arabia-Uruguay that took place in the Rostov-Arena stadium was won by South Americans 1:0. The match was attended by 42,678 spectators, the "R-Sport" reports.

Law enforcers conducted searches in a summer cottage of Manvel Grigoryan, the head of the "Erkrapa" Volunteer Union, in Nagorno-Karabakh, and in Yerevan, an office of the Volunteer Union was also searched. The law enforcers found there rounds, ammunition, army food supplies, and firearms.

Participants of the action, held on June 19 in the Duisi village in the Pankisi Gorge, have demanded to speed up the investigation into the Temirlan Machalikashvili's case and punish the persons responsible for his death.

Aslan Gagiev, a native of North Ossetia, accused of organizing a series of resonant murders in Russia, has been handed over to Russian law enforcers in Vienna, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports today.

More than 100 women selling handcrafts made of sheep's wool refused to pay fees to an owner of the Sheep Wool Market for the right to sell their goods and demanded to return the market to the Nalchik authorities.

Investigation into the circumstances surrounding the detention of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", is incomplete and ineffective, reports the scientific advisory conclusion on the rights defender's case prepared by the permanent commission of the Human Rights Council (HRC).

Due to the policy to appoint trusted people to official posts and refusal to change the regional policy, Magomedsalam Magomedov, the former leader of Dagestan, and Vladislav Surkov, who monitored the region of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, have been reappointed to the posts in the Russian presidential administration, political analysts believe.

On June 19, in Rostov-on-Don, more than 90 residents of a four-storey apartment building located near a fan zone of the FIFA World Cup were evacuated because of a fire. The fire area covered 400 square meters. Fire victims were temporarily accommodated at a school building.

Local authorities have managed to agree with court marshals about the temporary suspension of the court decision to demolish 19 houses built near the federal gas pipeline in the village of Novaya Shangoda-Shitlib.

A Yerevan court has ruled to arrest Manvel Grigoryan, a former MP, accused of stealing foodstuffs and equipment intended for the army, for two months.

Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd rights defender, has stopped his hunger strike announced in the Butyrka SIZO (pre-trial prison) in protest against his too long arrest.

The participants in a protest action held in the village of Novaya Shangoda-Shitlib, Kumtorkalin District of Dagestan, demanded to cancel the court judgement that prescribes to demolish their houses and blocked entry to the village for court marshals and policemen.

The US authorities have no moral right to demand the release of defendants or convicts in Russia, says the June 18 statement of Russia's Embassy in Washington.

The decision to deprive Manvel Grigoryan of his MP's immunity and the sanction for his arrest were approved by a majority of the Armenian MPs. The defence reported the deterioration of the Manvel Grigoryan's health state.

The Azerbaijani armed forces have shot down a drone during the border monitoring, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reports today. The drone tried to fly over the army's positions, the Ministry of Defence for Azerbaijan reports.

Today, the former leader of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov has reported that the information about the detention of Dagestani MP Radjab Abdulatipov is false.

At a Moscow airport, FSB agents detained Radjab Abdulatipov, a brother of the former leader of Dagestan, when he tried to leave Russia, reports today an informed source of the "Interfax". The law enforcement bodies did not confirm the information.