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In Yerevan, during the protest action held in front of the Parliament of Armenia, protesters have voiced the demand to abandon ratification of the Armenian-Russian agreement on the unified air defence system. The protest action takes place against the background of the discussion of the agreement at the Parliament.

In Dagestan, an elderly woman was killed in the collapse of a private house in the village of Sachada of the Charoda District. Her 14-year-old granddaughter was hospitalized.

Negotiations on the Karabakh conflict held by Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia in Saint Petersburg; visit to Armenia of Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church; verdict in the case of policeman Pliev wounded in Vladikavkaz; fire on the Ashuluk military training ground in the Astrakhan Region; decision pronounced by the ECtHR concerning the complaint filed by an Ingush resident, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 20-26, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Gukovo, miners and employees of the enterprises of the "Kingcoal" group of companies hold pickets every weekday. The recent protest action held on June 24 gathered about 40 people, who demanded to repay the arrears of wages and coal rations for the past two years in the amount of 300 million roubles to the team of 2000 people.

After a conflict, a resident of Dagestan had stabbed Isamudin Radjabov, a member of the ensemble "Lezginka", with knife about 20 times. The suspect surrendered to the police, reports an official from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Officials deprive teachers of their jobs and send school children to another educational institution, unfamiliar for them, in order to save two million roubles of the budget. This is stated by the local residents, who are seeking to save the school in the city of Dubovka of the Volgograd Region.

During a search conducted at the office of the "Union of Don Women", law enforcers seized documents. The resolution to open a criminal case against Valentina Cherevatenko, the chair of the "Union of Don Women", will be challenged after receipt of the document at hand. This was reported by the advocate of Valentina Cherevatenko.

The Russian weightlifting national team may be disqualified for a year because of a positive doping test of the weightlifter Apti Aukhadov.

When examining the article by Valery Brinikh "The Silence of the Lambs", the expert of the forensic centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) made gross methodology mistakes in examining the article for extremist statements, Elizaveta Tolstunova, a linguist from Nizhni Novgorod, has stated at the Maikop City Court.

On the eve of the opened beach season, the Prosecutor's Office of Makhachkala conducted a check of the accessibility of the Caspian Sea coast for holidaymakers, and revealed numerous violations, a source from the Prosecutor's Office told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Last night Azerbaijani troops were shelling positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) from small arms, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the unrecognized republic has stated today.

Members of 17 families from the village of Tsa-Vedeno, who lost their homes as a result of a landslide, are settled in the new houses, built during less than two weeks. Employees of the construction sector interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" express their concern that the accelerated pace of the construction of the houses may have a negative impact on their quality.

During the past day, the Armenian side has violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line nine times. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

On June 24, the Parliament of Georgia adopted the draft law stipulating exemption from criminal liability for 116 elderly prisoners, including those jailed for serious crimes.

Staff members of the State Security Service have discovered a hiding with weapons, ammunition, and explosive substances in the Abkhaz village bordering with Georgia.

Members of the Presidential Council on Human Rights (HRC) have expressed their concern about a search conducted in the office of the non-commercial organization "Union of Don Women". The human rights defenders treat the above search as an attempt to put into question the implementation of the Minsk agreements. This was stated by Mikhail Fedotov, the chairman of the HRC.

Ibragim Tsechoev, the claimant in the case "Tsechoev vs. Russia", is dissatisfied with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), despite the fact that the court had sided with him. He believes that the court had disregarded his version, set out in the complaint, of the kidnapping in 2012 of his brother Abu-Bakar Tsechoev, a resident of Ingushetia.

Pope Francis, who has begun his visit to Armenia today, has reaffirmed his attitude to massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, treating them again as genocide.

Officials of the Dagestani Muftiate and residents of the settlement of Shamkhal have agreed to leave Bii-Murad Ustarkhanov as Imam of the local mosque.

The visit of Pope Francis to Armenia will improve the country's image in the international arena. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by political analyst Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute.