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The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to recognize Armenia responsible for the human rights situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) is a political one; and all the claims in this regard should be addressed to the government of the unrecognized republic, believe the locals interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Representatives of public organizations and civil society activists, who held a roundtable in Volgograd, have decided to set up the Independent Environmental Council. They criticized the work of the regional environmental agencies in the region and accused bureaucrats of unwillingness to cooperate with NGOs.

Professor Mayrbek Vachagaev has handed over to the Archival Department of Chechnya 50,000 archival sheets on the history of the Caucasus. These earlier unknown documents are of great value, giving details about the events of 1917-1921 in the Caucasus, local scientists believe.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has dismissed the appeal complaint lodged by the defence of Ruslan Tsurov, in which the advocate asked the court to cancel the decision of the district court to put his client into custody.

A resident of Dagestan Fatima Kurbanova is back at large after their stay at the police, where she was forced to undergo the procedure of voice recording. The woman associates these law enforcers' actions with the fact that she is the widow of the militant killed in 2009.

The court in Makhachkala, which is considering the complaint lodged by the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova against investigators' decision to stop the inquiry into her beating up in 2010, has requested the case materials from the investigators. The next court session is scheduled for June 26.

Fatima Kurbanova, a widow of a member of the armed underground, was detained by power agents in Makhachkala, said a local woman, whose children are taught English by Kurbanova. The police have not confirmed this information.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Ruslan Ionov and Murad Nazirov, residents of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), to seven and three years of imprisonment, accordingly, for recruiting Russians to the war in Syria.

Imam Ayuf Borchashvili, detained in Georgia on suspicion of recruiting residents of the Pankisi Gorge for participation in the war in Syria, refuses to plead guilty, said his advocate. His fellow villagers refused to hold a rally with a demand of his release and recollected the events of 2012, when special agents conducted the Lapankuri special operation.

As a result of shelling of his car, the driver – a resident of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia – was killed, while his passenger was hospitalized in grave condition.

Power agents detected a cache in the vicinity of Argun and found there an antitank missile launcher, a Kalashnikov submachine gun, rounds for a grenade launcher, shells and bullets of various calibres.

The Tbilisi Mayoralty is still keeping records of the damage caused by the recent flooding. So far, city residents do not know when they will receive the help promised by the authorities. The implications of the disaster are still felt even by the people whose houses were not damaged.

Law enforcers have taken three grenade launchers and ammunition, belonging to killed militants, out of a cache in Dagestan, the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

In total, 457 people, including 119 children, have been registered by the Ministry of Public Health as victims of the flooding in Tbilisi. Three persons are still considered missing.

16 residents of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), who left for Syria at different times, are suspected of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) in the territory of this country.

All the dwelling settlements, located in the Alagir District, along the Ardon River, have problems with wastewater treatment, said the spokesperson for the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consuming Supervision) for North Ossetia.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied the complaint of Maria Fanzieva, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, who declared a violent death of her daughter at a police station. The applicant was awarded 30,000 euros.

Power agents drove away to some unknown place Akhmed Abazov, a resident of the village of Dugulubgei, said his father Edward. Akhmed is a brother of Murat Abazov, who perished in 2013 in an explosion of the village mosque.

Residents of Georgia, acting on their own initiative, are actively participating in restoration works after the flooding in Tbilisi and help the victims. Volunteers have deployed canteens and first aid centres, and coordinate their work through social networks.

Today is 20 years since signing an agreement with Chechen fighters, who captured the hospital in the city of Budyonnovsk, which then led to release of hostages. By the date, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has presented the original of the agreement, kept in the archives of the centre.