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The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) condemns and treats as unacceptable the politicization of the verdict in the case of Leyla and Arif Yunus, said Khikmet Gadjiev, the head of the press service of the MFA. In their turn, officials of the United Kingdom and the United States link the verdict with human rights activities of the Yunus spouses.

Both locals and MIA officials state normalization of situation in the Chechen village of Zakan-Yurt, where on May 30 young people blocked the local police station. According to the MIA, no complaints about policemen's actions were received.

The preliminary investigation into the case of three natives of Chechnya, accused of attacking employees of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) in the Moscow village of Vnukovo, is over. According to the advocate Tatiana Okushko, she refused to get acquainted with the case files, because the defence witnesses were not questioned.

In Sochi, members of the movement "Law and Order" have asked the prosecutor of the region to take steps to cancel the decision of the Mayor on making temporary dumps of the waste generated after the flooding.

The General Public Prosecutors of Armenia and Russia will have to find a compromise solution on the military prisons where Valery Permyakov will serve his term, said the Armenian lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They consider it possible that the convict will serve his sentence in the Russian territory.

When sentencing Leyla and Arif Yunus, the Baku Court ignored their health status and age. Their imprisonment terms of 8.5 and 7 years are in fact death sentences for them, their advocates assert.

Among the weapons, found at the venues of the special operations against suspected militants, conducted on July 23 and August 3 in Nalchik, investigators found the pistols stolen from the slain prosecutor Marat Tokov and GIBDD (traffic police) inspector Aslan Mashukov.

The Azerbaijani rights defender Leyla Yunus has been sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment; her husband Arif Yunus has received 7 years in prison from the court. The guilty verdict was handed down despite the appeals of international human rights organizations, which demanded to release the spouses.

During a search, power agents planted narcotic drugs on her son, said a woman from the Ingush village of Troitskaya. The advocate said that in the autumn of 2014, Alikhan Bokov voluntarily surrendered to the authorities and figured in the case of helping militants; but that case is already closed.

Under the earlier agreement with the Russian Federation, the case of Valery Permyakov, accused of desertion and massacring the Avetisyan family, has been handed over to Armenia.

Activists of the civil movement "Arise, Armenia!" have collected over 3500 signatures to the petition demanding resignation of the members of the Commission on Regulating Public Services (CRPS). On June 17, this Commission adopted a decision to increase the electricity tariff, which led to mass protests in Yerevan and other cities.

In the near future, the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) intends to move the recruiting of its new members from the Arab region to the Caucasus, Central Asia and Indonesia. This is stated in the report of the Chief Department for Religious Precepts of Egypt.

Today, the judge of the Baku Court of Grave Crimes has interrupted the session on the case of rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus after Arif Yunus felt bad.

In Astrakhan, a criminal case was opened against three employees of the Federal Service for Drug Control (known as FSKN). According to investigators, they broke by force into the apartment of a local resident and conducted an illegal search.

Gadjimet Safaraliev, a State Duma MP, who was offered the post of the Acting Mayor of Derbent, is able to hide from Moscow the shortcomings of the preparation process for the celebration of the upcoming jubilee of the city, believe the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". But they disagreed as to the term of Safaraliev's stay in his new post.

After the murder of Magomed Suleimanov, the "Imarat Kavkaz" (IK) will suffer a split, while the positions of the "Islamic State" (IS) in Northern Caucasus will strengthen, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot"; they suggested that the strengthening of the IS may be beneficial for power agents.

The start of a two-day sit-in picket was announced in Gyumri today by activists of the group "In Defence of Volodya Avetisyan".

The court in Gyumri has sentenced Valery Permyakov in the case of desertion, theft and illegal possession of firearms, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

A citizen of Azerbaijan was detained at the airport of Ankara, from where he planned to go to Syria and join the grouping named "Islamic State" (IS).

Residents of the settlement of Vremenny of the Untsukul District of Dagestan report that the shelling of the venue of the special operation in the Untsukul District lasted until today's morning.