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Workers of the coal company "Kingcoal" were twice met by the Mayor and other officials of the town of Gukovo. The miners insist on full repayment of wage arrears; however, they do not believe in the willingness of the authorities to solve their problems.

In Abkhazia, the tomorrow's referendum on the early presidential elections was not preceded by agitation and appropriate information work. Thus, a lot of people do not understand the meaning of the event. This opinion was voiced by residents of the republic and experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Dagestan and beyond the republic, people still remember Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, as a courageous journalist. This was stated by colleagues of the murdered journalist.

A relative of publicist Rizvan Ibragimov, who claims in his books that Chechens are the Allah's chosen people and who is suspected of extremism, disagrees with the version voiced by investigators.

According to Asif Marzili, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tezadlar", his car was set on fire four months after the arson of his apartment. The journalist associates the incidents with his professional activities.

Last night, the armed forces of Azerbaijan have shelled the positions of the Defence Army from small arms. This has been reported today by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has met Ilham Aliev and Serzh Sargsyan, Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, respectively. At the meeting, John Kerry has emphasized the need for the parties to enforce the commitments reached at the meetings in Vienna and Saint Petersburg. This has been reported today by John Kirby, Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson of the US Department of State.

The Armenian authorities should abandon the negotiations that jeopardize the security of Nagorno-Karabakh people. This was stated by the appeal, signed by Larisa Alaverdyan, the first Ombudsperson of Armenia, ethnographer Granush Kharatyan, and publicist Karine Danielyan.

In the Astrakhan Region, a district police inspector and a field investigator of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Volodarsky District are suspected of abuse of power with the use of special means and infliction of serious consequences.

The abductors of Irina Dochiya, the Secretary of the Political Council of the "United Abkhazia" Party, have not put forward any demands yet, and have not come in touch with her colleagues and relatives.

In her interview to the "Caucasian Knot", Svetlana Gannushkina, the Chair of the "Civil Assistance" Committee, explained her refusal to campaign in Chechnya for her election to the Russian State Duma by the danger for her supporters. Ms Gannushkina is No. 1 in the list of candidates from the "Yabloko" Party in Chechnya.

Bureaucrats are not obliged to react to requests placed on a private resource, in particular, to the petition against renaming a bridge in Saint Petersburg in honour of Akhmat Kadyrov, media professionals believe.

Today, the advocates of successors and relatives of the Avetisyan family petitioned on disqualification of Judge Arutyun Movsisyan, suspecting him of bias in the consideration of the massacre of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri.

For two weeks already, there is no information about the fate of activist Khagani Nasirov, the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has reported. Oppositionists assume that he could be detained after his publications of critical collages addressed to the country's authorities in social networks.

The Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the court on the arrest of Armenian activist Zhirair Sefilyan, suspected of the organization of illicit trafficking in arms.

Since August of 2014, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been introduced on the territory of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan for the seventh time already. In June, law enforcer discovered there a blown-up car with fragments of the human bodies inside it. Relatives of the deceased men have filed complaints about their kidnapping. Earlier, in the Karabudakhkent District, law enforcers repeatedly came under fire, and a workshop for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) was discovered.

In Sochi, the second line of the Bzugu treatment facilities cannot be completed because of the lack of funding. This was reported by a company representative.

The hard drives containing video records from the surveillance cameras of the Ust-Djeguta ROVD (District Interior Division), depicting the circumstances of the death of Murat Borlakov, have been obtained for examination with mechanical damage. This was reported by forensic expert questioned at the trial.

As a result of the shootout in the Karabudakhkent District, Gusein Taghirov, who led the "Makhachkala" militant grouping, was killed. This was reported by law enforcers.

Today, John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, concluded his two-day visit to Georgia, stating that the United States continue supporting the Georgia's course towards joining the NATO. The Georgian authorities treat Mr Kerry's visit as a sign of the imminent Georgia's entry into the Alliance.