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Two suspected militants and a soldier of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation were killed in an armed clash that broke out in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan.

The pressure on the congregation of the mosque located in Hungarian Warriors Street in Makhachkala should be stopped, said Nafigullah Ashirov, the Mufti of the Asian part of Russia and Co-Chair of the Council of Muftis of Russia.

After the match "Dynamo"-"Gabala", Georgian fans trampled on the flag of Azerbaijan, which they took away from the beaten Azerbaijani fans. During the match, Georgian fans hang out a banner with a provocative hint about the belonging of two regions of Azerbaijan to Georgia.

The decision to suspend the powers of the lawyer Alaif Gasanov, a former advocate of the rights defender Leyla Yunus, was made by the Presidium of the Bar Association of Azerbaijan.

As a result of a ceasefire violation on the troops contact line, Arsen Khachatryan, a regular soldier of the Karabakh Defence Army, was wounded, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

Residents of households located in Svanidze Street, partially destroyed during the June flooding in Tbilisi are afraid to return home. They state that until now the city Mayoralty has not requested their documents for payment of compensations.

A group of protesters in Bagramyan Avenue in Yerevan is preparing provocations in order to "escalate the situation," said a source from the Police of Armenia.

An agreement of Russian authorities and the victims of the terror act committed in Beslan in 2004, who filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), is possible only if an independent and impartial investigation into the terror act, said members of the "Mothers of Beslan" Committee.

Non-governmental and human rights organizations have disseminated an open appeal to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia to immediately conduct an investigation into the beating in Tbilisi of Arthur Babayan and Philip Oganezyan.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the appellate court has cancelled the decision to extend the custody of Khavazh Temirsultanov, a native of Chechnya, accused of robbery. The case was returned to the court of Sochi.

The Adler District Court has scheduled for July 6 the continuation of the consideration of the case of Anna Gritsevich, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, on disobedience to police, and for July 7 – the case of ecologist Vladimir Kimaev.

In the course of the 32nd round of Geneva debates, delegates of Georgia and Russia have discussed the issues of security and the right to get education in one's mother tongue. The Georgian party has criticized Russia for its military exercises in Abkhazia and the violation of airspace.

A monument to repressed residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) was opened in the city park of Nalchik.

A large summer base of militants was blocked in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, said a local law enforcement source.

A fighter aircraft MiG-29 has crashed down near the aerodrome Kuschevskaya in the Krasnodar Territory. There are no victims and no damage.

A court in Chechnya has sentenced Alaudin Menlibaev, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, finding him guilty of the attack in 1999 on the village of Chervlyonnaya, committed under command of Khattab.

The Special Investigation Service of Armenia has declared the unlawful use of force against protesters on June 23, and the institution of a criminal case in this context.

On July 2, the Adler District Court of Sochi began considering the case of disobeying the police in relation to the ecologist Vladimir Kimaev and Anna Gritsevich, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The court granted the defence's motion to watch the video from the place of detention of the journalist and the ecologist.

Today, at 3:00 a.m. Moscow time, in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, law enforcement bodies started their counterterrorist operation (CTO). The legal CTO regime was introduced at 3:00 Moscow time, the operative headquarters of Dagestan has reported.

According to coordinators of the protest action against the increase of electricity tariff, last night about 100 protesters stayed in Yerevan, in Bagramyan Avenue.