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The MPs and public figures of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) speak in favour of the adoption by the Russian State Duma of a bill on criminal punishment for justification of Stalin's repressions. According to their version, it will contribute to the harmonization of interethnic relations in the country.

Today, Vasily Degtyarev, the head of the village of Loznoe of the Dubovka District of the Volgograd Region, has held a picket in front of the building of the regional GUVD (District Interior Department). The picketer demanded to pay attention to the situation in his village.

For North-Caucasus men, currently, economic difficulties take the first place in the conventional rating of problems; while the concept of success is associated with the family – these were the findings of the researchers, who presented their report in Moscow.

The Turkish media have published a photo of a foreign passport of Russian citizen Vadim Osmanov, who is treated as one of the suicide bombers, who blew themselves up at the airport in Istanbul on June 28. Earlier, the newspapers reported about Osman Vadinov.

12 families from the village of Benoi of the Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, who were deprived of their houses because of landslides, were granted new houses in the Gudermes District of Chechnya. Other 30 new houses for the people from the villae of Gush-Kort affected by landslides were built in the Shatoi District of Chechnya.

Detentions are continued in Istanbul in connection with the terror act at the airport. Sources report about detained natives of Dagestan, Chechnya and Azerbaijan. The Istanbul Police believe that the terrorists arrived in Turkey on forged documents.

The investigators have made a decision to force to the police station Ruzanna Egnukyan, an activist of the "Front of Armenian Women", recognized injured in a clash with the police in Yerevan on March 24. On June 30, policemen tried to enter her apartment for a search without a court order; however, they were not allowed into the house. This was reported by the husband of the activist.

At the preliminary court hearing in the case against Rashid Evloev, a native of the village of Maiskoe, accused of involvement in the activities of Syrian militants, the court has dismissed the request to exclude evidence treated by the defence as inadmissible.

The judge came to the court session with the prepared decision to dismiss the civil suit against Russia in the case of the murder of Avetisyan family members committed by Valery Permyakov in Gyumri, and the decision was made under pressure. This was stated by Armenian advocates.

The case on involvement of Zhamal Tumenov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, in the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia, has been sent to the court.

Osman Vadinov, whose involvement in the terror act in Istanbul is reported by the Turkish media, is a native of Dagestan, not Chechnya, state sources from Turkey and Russia. After the terror act, the Turkish police started to massively detain suspects, including natives from Northern Caucasus.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced the decisions in 18 cases from Azerbaijan. The ECtHR has granted the complaints about violation of the voting right and property right, as well as the complaints filed in connection with arrests for participation in protests.

The Volgograd Region provides no conditions for the successful development of businesses, and no regional protectionism takes place there. This opinion was voiced by Andrei Kuprikov, a member of the Public Chamber of the Volgograd Region.

The charges against Valentina Cherevatenko, the leader of the "Union 'Women of Don'", suspected of wilful refusal to perform the duties specified by the law on foreign agents, are detrimental to civil society in Russia. This was stated by Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for the EU foreign policy chief.

One of the three explosions committed at the Istanbul airport on June 28 involved a native of Chechnya or Dagestan. This was reported by Turkish media. Besides, their sources from secret services do not rule out the involvement in the terror act of Akhmed Chataev, a Chechen native, an assistant to Doku Umarov.

Yuri Modebadze, Chairman of the Board of the Astrakhan organization of Georgian culture "Iveriya", and Sergey Zaplavsky, a resident of Astrakhan, have been kept in custody for a year on the charge of a large-scale theft. Both defendants claim to have alibis, which the investigators and the court ignore.

At an extraordinary session, Armenian MPs have ratified the Armenian-Russian agreement on unified air defence system by majority of votes. 102 MPs voted in support of the system, and eight others voted against it.

The law enforcement bodies are engaged in the search for members of the armed underground in the territory of the Shamil, Khunzakh, and Gunib Districts.

The initiative of the Russian authorities on creation of a bank of information on terrorists and extremists is not practical, and all the more, law enforcers already use a system of preventive registration, which is also ineffective and violates the rights of residents of Northern Caucasus. This opinion was expressed by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

By the decision of the investigators, Timur Temirov, a resident of Mozdok, whose relatives claimed that weapons and drugs had been planted to him, was released on recognizance not to leave.